Quote Originally Posted by Fensfield View Post
For me?

The graphics.

They aren't bad, but something about the style quite literally makes me ill x.x I tried playing it and had to quit after a half hour because the graphics were making me feel .. well frankly I felt like I'd just stumbled off a teacup ride, at least in my stomach. Yeah, I don't get on well with World of Warcraft XD

That said, though, in a more general sense? Its success. It's just.. too successful, to the point its obliterated the industry's ability to handle teething problems in new games and caused everyone to start following it. Ragnarök Online had the same effect for a while, actually, back when it was the big thing of its time - every MMO out of Korea for a while was all but an RO clone with increasingly three dimensional graphics, and the vast majority of free to play, short burn MMOs that come out of that region still insist on copying its system design philosophy.

So.. yeah, WoW has a problem inherent with all overly-successful MMORPGs. It stopped causing new games to grow ideas from its strong points, and instead started making developers feel they had to play to its tune if they wanted anything even resembling a profit. Thank God we're finally starting to pull away from that..
I'd question if we are, any game that cones out over the next few years diff will suffer the "It's not fun what do I do fate". Ignore FF14. I have a feelin grhe only one left standing will be rift and wow, sad but true. people dont want new or innovative, which makes me think tera and gw2 will be small time compared.