[SwordMage]

The Gamasutra article is "interesting". I don't agree with his criteria for judging a game, so I disagree with many of his conclusions.

My biggest problem is that I think he is saying that the MMO genre must shift it's whole focus and playstyle to attract players from the wider video game market. He assumes that current MMO players will embrace the changes that would make the games attract the wider audience, and I am not sure that is true (I would use SWG NGE as a prime example, but I think the changes made were not the sort of things he espouses, but rather pale attempts to shift genre without the kind of innovation he is looking for).

He does make some good points about adding more content and finding ways to lower grind and dead time.