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Mmorpgs have been dead for many years now. WoW and FF14 are like their own separate niches. Wha happened was that truly great mmorpgs early in the genre’s history like Ultima Online and SWG were concepts before their time when computing and internet bandwidth couldn’t properly support them so when WoW hit and dominated the genre everyone just tried to clone WoW instead of doing the next generation of advanced mmorpgs. The problem with cloning WoW is that none of the big-name projects had the talent and/or funding to actually do it so WoW remained the dominant factor, only sharing its stage a little with FF14.

Why hasn’t there been any good alternative mmorpg in the last decade? Competency crisis. Not even Blizzard could make WoW again and it was impossible for a better more advanced game to ever happen in this industry, and WoW is the MINIMUM gaming experience, not the ultimate expression. People sometimes wish “imagine if there was SWG but with modern technology: etc but the brutal, sad reality is that such a thing is as impossible as wishing for the government to just stand up, do the right things and make your country a great place to live — because that’s not how society works. We are deep in a competency crisis in which extremely marginal, incompetent people are acting as the engineers creating these games which is literally why everything is unambitious boring cookie-cutter low-effort trash slop with exploded out of control budgets and ridiculously long dev cycles. Unlimited funding by the Blackrock-type money printers is all that is propping up these disastrously bad games no one wants.