Quote Originally Posted by Will01 View Post
Don't you guys think that perhaps your maybe just burned out on MMO's in general?

I don't remember Yoshida ever promising that ARR would be a 'game-changer' on the MMO front.
Ignoring the carebear bit, which has really just become a meaningless phrase which is applied willy-nilly to every MMO (hell, game) in existence, I think unrecognized burnout is a huge factor in the perpetual MMO treadmill.

A significant, vocal chunk of the MMO player base is just chasing the dragon at this point. It's pretty obvious if you spend any time at all looking at forums, particularly the ones dedicated to MMO gaming as a whole. People flit from game to game, always looking to recapture the fun they had when everything was fresh and new. Developers are getting better and better at running the fanbase over with the hype train, but it wouldn't be so easy if gamers weren't so desperate to throw themselves down on the tracks.

It's not just a phenomenon restricted to MMOs, either. FPS fans constantly salivate over the new, and then howl with disappointment a month later. Hell, at this point I think 90% of the tabletop rpg playerbase who post online are absolutely ruined by burnout, because the one thing a new edition of Dungeons & Dragons can never do is make you 11 years old again.