Why so many MMOs disappoint?

Me too was disappointed with many MMOs. My first one was Lineage 2. After over a year of playing, I was finally bored and decided to find something new to try out. There was a long list of MMORPGs I have tried, including many big titled "most popular" ones. None had impressed me. From the way I see it, you played one, you've played all Since most aspects of all MMORPGs are more or less the same. They are copycats of each other.

I really wish game developers can come up with something new and interesting instead of creating what's already out there just to jump onto the bandwagon of a cash cow lol.

I don't mind paying monthly fee or whatever for a truly amazon MMO, as I have found MMO was the most addicting. We just need some games not following the same old pattern of ... for example: leveling by mindless grinding.

 

Because many of those companies want to make the game pay2win which people HATE about it. The best thing you can do is not make the game pay2win and be open with the community players and get their feedback. That's why a lot of those famous MMOs get shit ton of money!

 

Because of hype and marketing, mainly. MMO is a genre which has a lot of open room for cool features and possibilities, and a lot of developers and gamers fantasize about what the perfect MMORPG would look like. It's easy to think about it, and say you are making a game which will be the next best thing, with all of these exciting things, but it's completely another thing to actually make it, and make it work, be smooth, balanced, engaging and fun. Every MMO gamer has had it happen to him. You are waiting for a new game, it looks good, it sounds good, you think, this is the one, finally. Yet you play it for a couple of months and it's meh.

 

MMOs disappoint because none of them comes with anything new. All the good MMOs have already been made and the other just try to copy something that's successful in hope that they will also get successful. They usually even use the same engine and just change the models and gameplay a little. Plus, an MMO needs a lore to be fun, but all new MMOs are there just for you to kill some monsters and that's it.

 

I only really play one MMO because It takes so much time to accomplish anything and I don't want to start from the bottom in a new game. Not only that, none of the new games are really coming up with anything new or innovate to really move the genre forward.