Quote Originally Posted by Sephirah View Post
WoWs success made sure that will never happen. Now that companies have seen what a cash cow a successful MMO can be, they won't/can't produce the same quality of work, get 300k subscriptions and be "successful".

WoW did infact change the genre, and it will never return to the former glory it once was. Any MMO released since WoW has been compared to it, even when it shouldn't be. They either fail because they are TOO DIFFERENT, or are ridiculed as clones for being TOO SIMILAR.

I love FFXIV, but it of course has been influenced by WoW as well. Luckily we aren't at the stage of lol facerolling yet, but the more people complain about it not being enough like WoW then the more it will become like it, I can only hope this happens after I've long since lost interest in this game.
I agree with you 100% I still have some hope for a few titles coming out that are more traditional and open sandbox. But post wow everything needs to be easy and have pvp *sigh*