[panjandrum]

First, I don't want to offend anyone, although I am willing to admit some might find this offensive. Apologies in advance.

I've been stuck driving a desk at work recently and have had a huge amount of free time to browse forums. Something has started to bother me. I find a large number of players seem to not want anything new in a game. Endless posts of 'do it like in EQ' or 'where is such and such a class from DAOC'. It seems that whenever something radically or even vaguely different is proposed the roar from the galleries is deafening. Why is that?

Do players just want a constantly reskinned amalgam of DaoC and EQ1? It seems that all the games coming along now are just that. Are we, as mmo players, stuck in a rut?

Seems like the mmo industry is becoming a Ray Bradbury novel lately, just sort of scares me. Thoughts?