Quote Originally Posted by Nektulos-Tuor View Post
Imagine if they fired Yoshida and brought back the old devs and turned it back into what FFXIV used to be. That is essentially what happened to SWG.
That analogy is helpful, thank you for the explanation. One thing I notice is the focus on the sandbox elements. I know many people tend to think a sandbox MMO will revitalize the genre, but there have been quite a few attempts at a sandbox MMO, and only Eve is around. I think sandbox work very well for single player games like the ES series, and for smaller network games like Minecraft, but once you scale them up to MMO levels, the things that make then enticing in small environments become detriments, many because you have too many people fighting over sand and knocking over other people's castles.