SE stop doing the "norm"

[Jynx]

If "the norm" is fun, welcome to "the norm".

The only real issue is that games that have tried to use the normal formula for a hit MMORPG these days (Mainly WoWs base) have yet to recapture the lightning in a bottle that WoW was.

Hell as WoW bleeds subscribers it's hard to say that Blizzard can even recreate it. They got lucky and everyone else developement wise is trying to do the same. If anything recent MMOs that have come out strong and languished shortly after release give a bold statement that the WoW type MMO is on it's way out.

Hell it may be impossible for MMOs to ever reach the same numbers as WoW did, in the MMO space it really is a statistically anomally of the market. You need to find your playerbase and focus on it, trying too hard to please everyone leads to dissapointment on all ends of the market. When/If a MMO tries to use WoWs base and manages to hit a large subscriber base for a long time then it's a different story.

But after WoW, we just haven't seen the numbers in more recent MMOs to suggest it's a repeatable formula.

Also fun is highly subjective to alot of demographics you can't just say "If it's fun it's the norm" Like I said with the WoW style base, it's unproven to actually be "Fun" outside of WoW itself as many games have failed to capitalize on it. You could say it's like anything popular, you can't just do it again and expect the same results.

The market for all products not just games, look at movies and books Vampires and Zombies are "In" but how often does the Vampire or Zombie "Hook" actually translate into the rehashed products being as good or better than the thing they are trying to imitate?

Eventually the novelty wears off seeing something you like outside of the thing you actually enjoyed it for.

Fun is highly subjective and can't be contained to a single factor or style.

Oh I almost forgot.

If you want me too...
Group content

BATTLE!

But seriously much of that content was either able to be done Solo as well, aside from the synergy crafts of course.

Again it was all condensed under (Battle) as you felt needed for my list to be condensed. It's content for sure but it didn't make up 97% of the game. I'd say it was a 70/30 split to be honest it was a highly group based game but as per my original arugment it wasn't the only thing to do.

If you couldn't find something to do by yourself you were just being lazy.