Quote Originally Posted by silentwindfr View Post
even different type of content, why it don't appear anymore, because people want to copy WoW thinking it what work...when people get tired of the WoW formula.
I wish I could be a bug on the wall of the pitches for MMORPG's. I imagine they go like this:

"WoW, but like with Zombies"
"WoW, but with Pandas"
"WoW, but with craftable housing!"
"WoW, but with a third faction!"
"MineCraft, except, with cash shop stuff"
"WoW, but with cash shop stuff!"

Honestly, I used to think Freemium games were better than Subscription games, and then all the subscription games decided to hop on the "EVE" RMT bandwagon, and now they're just freemium games with a startup cost. For the love of all that is fun and great about FFXIV, never jump on this bandwagon. Cash shops just keep getting tweaked so that they bilk whales out of as much money as possible, and once the game is no longer making money, they just kill it. Freemium games rely on "the 1%", and should something better come along, the game becomes a money pit and has to be wound down.

This is why any future "Free to Play" games can't keep using the "buy a titanic full of smurfberries" as a carrot to letting players rush through the game. Zynga produces a lot of shovelware games and Nexon doesn't quite screw their playerbase by putting pay-gates on the content, rather they keep releasing new glamor outfits, and people keep buying them. Those two companies are the "king" of free-to-play content, and only got there because they did it first in their respective parts of the world.

But what have they innovated on since? Nothing. The Sequels to games they already run are getting canceled, and aren't what the players want. You don't convince a player to "start over" by handing them the same game again but only with prettier graphics.