Because of unmentionable recent events, recently i was looking for some mmo to play. I played them all like 10 years ago, no new game since then. And because of 10 years break i have somehow fresh look at this genre.
I agree here with TechLord mmos are dead. And that mythic wow killer was wow itself. They copy\paste all previous ideas, polished them and improved. But blizzard goal for improvement was not fun for plauyers, their goal was to milk people as much as possible, make them addicted. And they did it, but after years of playing same **** people realize that there is nothing fun in leveling countless alts, or in grinding endgame to be better at … yes grinding endgame. Countless hamster trademill and no fun, fun was removed killed. Everybody else followed wow sucess, they wanted to be better than wow at aspects where wow was failing (or sucking dry whole mmo idea to make profit).
So mmos (wow cloes) are dead. WOW killed that genre. (or beat mmo dead horse into ground).
We need fresh idea that is fun first, not milking addicts for money. Somehow fresh idea was neverwinter nights, with user persistent servers, game masters etc. But it was years ago, now we need something like that but for current situation.
ps. i know wow was not first mmo, and i know they had almost no fresh ideas, they just improved older mmos.