Originally Posted by
Rukh
But what I'm saying is that for a lot of people, the thing you say to remove is actually the thing they find fun about the MMO. What is wrong with that? Can't people play games for things they like even if it's not the thing you're trying to make them like instead?
Guild war's 2 more active combat vs the stat list of something like WoW or even the nearly turn based FFXI might be an interesting distraction but it's really not what is going to keep people coming back and it's not why people play MMO games. If they wanted combat, they're playing Street Fighter online somewhere. The hotbar RPG is a convenient enough style but really what makes WoW successful isn't the type of combat, but the feeling of progress amongst a community. If you take that away, it's just not a MMO, so I have to ask again, why would you take away all the fun stuff THEN ask people if they like the game?