FF14 players are content with the slop because they barely play other games

[Jojoya]

MMO as a genre is dead. Move on.

Go play single player open world games if you want something to grind. Go play multiplayer games like Helldivers 2 if you want to party up with friends. There's a reason the kids aren't playing MMOs, and it's not because they are kids. It's because the MMO genre only survives by pulling older gamers in with nostalgia. If you want value for money there are a ton of indie games out there.

I mean I know you're just doing this as troll bait as you always do.

But I don't care if someone thinks it's a dead genre. I play MMORPGs because I enjoy MMORPGs. I also play other games because I enjoy those as well.

The last thing I'm going to do is expect to get the same experience from a MMORPG as I can get from a single player indie game because it's the different experience I'm looking for.

The unfortunate truth
It's why there's not many new MMOs coming out
I'm hoping Ashes of Creation will actually release and be good, but the devs seem way too ambitious that I'm concerned they might be biting off more they can chew

MMORPG is not dead as a genre.

The reason you don't see many new ones coming out is money. They're extremely expensive to make. If someone doesn't have the personal wealth and/or backing investors, they're not going to be able to get a MMORPG into a release state that will satisfy players.

Part of that is because there are so many old MMORPGs still running, they've built up hundreds if not thousands of hours of content for players to do. Players expect all MMORPGs to have that amount of content.

A new MMORPG is not going to be able to provide the amount of content a player is expecting at release. Even old MMORPGs aren't able to provide as much new content as players will demand when a content update is released. Looking at these forums and the WoW forums shows that. Players just will not be satisfied at the same time they refuse to go play other games to get their satisfaction.

There's no point in creating a new MMORPG if it's not going to get a large enough player base that will stick around to cover the expense of making the game.

Our neighborhood troll does have one good point. We all need to be playing other games to see what else is out there and to get enough new content to sate our gaming appetite. A single game is not going to do it once we've consumed what it has to offer.