i have to agree with the OP, using final fantasy 11 as an example, or even EQ, it was far more seldom to see people act like idiots, because they would get popular very fast, and since ff11 and eq were *gasp* community-centric, those bad and nasty players would get marooned from progressing content, buuut since mmorpgs are now based on being spoonfed like a big whiny baby, pretty much nothing matters anymore
:/