Finally over my wow addiction

[Lyonheart]

though they'd had been better off making more unique games.

I disagree. If you look at all the games who have tried to "do it different" or unique, they have had limited sucsess..ie Conan..tera..etc.. I think the only MMO that will ever be anywhere near the sucsess of WoW would be a game that would have all the greatness WoW has and more. Things like the smoothness/responsiveness of combat.. how fluid everything works.. mounts, ground and flying... the open world ( curse CRZ though..arrg! ) The amazing macro system..addon community etc... No other game has "matched' any of those features. A lot of games come out the gate TRYING to be different, then later morph into half ass attempts of a WoW clone. If a game leaves out any feature that WoW has.. it will not be as successful. Players have gotten used to them, and miss them in other MMOs, the proof is in the number of players who play a new MMO (example SWtOR ) then return to WoW.

IMO, if you take flying mounts ( as just one example ).. developers do not like them.. because "you skip all that awesome content they spent so much time on". F that! I prefer to see it from the Air! I know a lot of players, especially PvPrs, would be happy to have flying mounts removed.. but WAY more people LOVE them. So when a game leaves that feature out.. its handicapped itself from the start. You cant make an MMO and not have at least the same features, and the only way you can compete with WoW would be to have those features and do some of them better.. if that is even possible! And maybe have a thing or two unique that people will enjoy.