Quote Originally Posted by Zantetsuken View Post
Hit the nail on the head.

Newer players to MMO games will likely draw from their experiences playing FPS games, or GTA, or Dragon Age, or Skyrim, etc.. and they will evaluate a MMO based on that criteria. But other online games (and offline RPGs) are designed to be picked up, played for maybe 5 months and then abandoned for when the next big game comes along.
But that is one of the problems MMOs have been facing: They do NOT look at what other games outside the genre are doing that could be useful for them. It is an MMORPG, remember? An RPG! There has been a lot done in that genre and I've rarely seen any of it taken into the MMO space! Plus, they are copying and pasting generic MMORPG features into their game without proper consideration of the mood or theme of the game (and also the fact that the game is balanced around PvE).