I think the attitude can be summed up in the following phrase, People are afraid of change. Ideas and concepts different from what they consider the norm scare the living heck out of some. This sentiment is echoed from died in the wool xi vets as well as from those who are from what would be considered "Modern mmo's". The thing is as some one who has been around the block a couple times when it comes to these games is there is a glorious middle ground to be found between the two some are just to preoccupied by how things should be to see how it could be.