Quote Originally Posted by Grizzlebeard View Post
Not to detract from your ideas, as I feel constructive feedback should be encouraged, but three decades playing MMOs is a little misleading considering MMOs didn't surface until the late 90's (UO '97 / EQ '99) so at most you could have been playing them for 17 years.
Not so. For example, the very first truly popular online RPG was the original "Neverwinter Nights", on AOL in 1991, back when AOL was still pay-by-the-hour and you maxed out (most people did this for PvP effectiveness) as a 10/11/11 F/CL/MU. I played a few hundred hours of NWN as "TP Matthew" (I was in "The Protectorate" guild) back in the day. Then, there wasn't a Trinity of roles because we all ended up playing the same exact class and the same skillset

And there were several VERY popular subscription-only TEXT-based RPG. I also played Gemstone III on GEnie (Gemstone I started in 1988, and could be played over a TELNET connection!), and DragonRealms back then - and Simutronics (Play.net) is still going as far as I know, with Gemstone IV.

My left wrist doesn't work so well any more because of all the hours I spent outside Wehnimer's Landing (GS3) or east of the Crossing (DR), typing ATT TR (attack troll) over and over and over...