Alot of MMOs copy eachother, If it isnt broken why change it? its somthing people like? use it. I really wanna try it too tho ^^ seems really fun but the talent system seems so dam confuseing atm lol.
i played APB in its beta stages (believe it was an open beta?) and im one of them people who found it "meh" but.. it was a cool idea for an MMO and when it comes back as F2P i probs try it again with its changes.
I hope some new MMOs do really well, Guild Wars 2, Rift and so on. So blizzard think "oh dam!" and if people start to leave for other MMOs they might make there encounters more cool and so on ^^