I have expressed concerns about this in 14 other threads but apparently Rokien is a lighting rod for these discussions. I am definitely concerned over the MMO on rails concept. However, Yoshi has earned a lot of my trust with how he turned 1.0 around. So, I am definitely concerned, not only because I don't like that style but I feel many others don't either. For example, if you go to a site like mmorpg.com you see forums full about how people hate this type of game structure and want new gameplay mechanics or fresh sandbox games. I personally won't like a MMO on rails but I also think it will fail altogether since people are sick of that gameplay.

Hopefully, SE will recognize this and do a good job masking it with story (a la the Hildibrand quests) or make them somewhat dynamic (TSW, GW2).

We will see.