Quote Originally Posted by Magikazam View Post
that kinda my point too. The popular mmo right now got their little unique thing, but there no competition on these little thing. You don't have other story driven MMO in the market. GW2 and WoW also dosen't have massive gate keeping, running around one shottting brainless mob or gender exclusive classes.

My point is mostly that if you find, let say FFXIV story driven content good, but the gameplay lacking, well you don't have Any other option for a story driven mmo. And even if one come out an try to be ''FFXIV but better'' it will just die due to lack on content compared to the 10 years we got here and the sunk cost fallency. There a reason why all the tab target ''WoW killer'' died soon after launch.
ESO is story driven. It's just the stories are not as strong and the gameplay / floaty combat is worse IMO. So it's competition, but worse IMO. And it seems many agree as it's just not as populated as XIV.

Again, there are probably MMOs that try to do a variety of things XIV does, but the competition is just not as good at it. That doesn't mean there isn't competition.

10 years of content is hard to overcome, but if a game is outstanding it can. XIV came onto the market 14 years after EQ1 and that generation of MMOs.

MMO players flood to every new MMO that releases, at least at first. There is a market for new MMOs, they just simply are not as good.