Quote Originally Posted by AzraelX View Post
Sandbox mmo is too costly and how do you gate certain things to keep people subbed longer
You'd gate the content by just making it either really really hard or very time consuming to do. This was done back in the day by not telling the player about the shiny +1 sword they could obtain, you'd have to talk to a random unassuming NPC in a outpost you'd generally miss.

And this doesn't even take into account that all the things required to actually find the +1 Sword would probably not even be in game naturally and would have to be made.