The first few waves of MMOs where all about seeing what they could do with the tech . While we all have our stories I doubt we ' d pick up EQ or FFXI when WoW , FFXIV , GW 2 and the likes exist . There ' s a level of commitment that needs to be made with those games that we accepted back then because there were no alternatives . This is not to say that the popular MMOs today are bad . I may have objections to some of them but they are solid games in their own right . Most have some kind of twist to the WoW formula that lets them stand on their own . I think when I ' m old , gray , and retired I ' ll probably dive headfirst into an MMO . Until then maybe I ' ll casually play one of them . <| sep |> I don ' t give a shit . That doesn ' t mean you weren ' t strawmanning though .