Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

"Modern MMO" has evolved into Fortnite and now Roblox type of games...yeah those aren't traditional MMORPG but they provided social interaction and sense of community that people used to seek when they played MMORPG back in 2004.

That's why MMORPG is stagnant IMO. The market for social interaction games always existed, but now customers prefer something else now.

(I think it's also why plenty of people in FFXIV enjoyed housing and dancing more than hardcore raid, they play for social need.)

Yoshida was brought in on 14 after studying WoW pretty extensively, right? So to SE, at least, it was different enough from other MMOs of the time for them to want to copy it. Granted this was after years of operation for both MMOs, and obviously WoW had grown beyond imagination while FFXI and FFXIV 1.0 came nowhere close.

Would be interesting to see sub numbers side by side in the 2005 timeframe

It was a total paradigm shift.

Yes, XI is not what it was. But it still has time sinks like airships and boats taking actual travel time. Has it gained quest markers? (Did EQ have quest markers?) I could go on and on with the differences of the EQ era and the WoW era but, in a nutshell, XI followed a formula WoW set out to break that formula and it did.

What makes Wow "the new era"? Quest markers and the lack of airships and boat time sinks (the latter actually having content within)?