I quit WoW not because of the game, it’s a fun game, but becuase of the player base. Once you loose your mates due to a long break or if they simply quit, it is hard to cope with the pick up groups as most are half-afk’ing/ annoying /aggro-junkie kids. WoW opened up the market for an entire new MMO group.. and this has it’s disadvantages! I won’t be choosing my next MMO on player base, but on maturity. For expample: AoC instead of WAR.

They had months to thoroughly test the power of each class, radical nerfs should not be needed. Guild wars did class balancing far better, and WoW could learn a few things from that game.

Still it would be interesting to see a list of what people really like about each of these games, and of course the dislike list. Yes, some times I wish the best parts of each on line game I have ever played were taken and placed into one game.

Like Vanguard, I was hoping for something new, and in many ways it is, but I get this feeling that they copied too many things from WoW.

The Problem that I see now is that any new online game faces being compared to WoW. At one time it was EQ live other games were being compared to. I think no matter what, any new online is going to be compared to another.

Question is, is it possible to make a new and fresh online game that is totally different than anything out there, without falling back on borrowing ideas from this game or that? Have all new game ideas been used up?

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The Soulbound concept is most annoying. (Yes, it might be supposed to keep the urge of buying off ebay a bit down. But I don’t think that worked)

Loading times, ques, etc have got to be the worst category - this is essentially likened to dead air time on TV or Radio.

Secondary to that would be “management related” functions such as finding groups, sorting inventory, banking, controlling character movements and camera angles, etc.

If I was collecting things IRL, I would logically group the items into like classes, not necessarily pile them into my bags LIFO. Adding some intelligence to where looted items are placed or how they are grouped in relation to my storage slots would make the confusing explosion that occurs whenever I hit the “open all bags” macro a bit less daunting. Even better, how about the ability to sort through your inventory without having to tooltip every icon that looks similar to what you *think* you’re looking for (after of course you’re able to find it).

I would say third to this would be look and feel type improvements. I don’t know about you, but I have found some seriously graphically challenged games addicting because they play very well, and the management aspects are very smooth.