A recipe for greatness?

• Take the Combat, Animation and Immersion of Age of Conan.
• The Team controls and features (Sidekick!) of City of Heroes
• The in-and-out-as-you-wish optional PvP expected from Warhammer Online.
• The seamless World plus original small team Dungeons of World of Warcraft.
• The ship-to-ship combat of Pirates of the Burning Sea.
• The Crafting of Star Wars Galaxies.
• The Exploring and mystery of Earth & Beyond.

Oh I could go on, but you get the point. Put all the best features of these games and more together and you'd have-- well not the greatest MMORPG possible, but a pretty good one. Assuming it had a truckload of content, because that's what's needed most, just tons of content.

I don't know, nothing seems to match my imagination of what would truly be great. Too bad I want to experience the epiphany as a player, creating it could spoil it.

Maybe one day I'll take the advice I give to other armchair designers and write a whitepaper (or three) of my own.

*gets back to playing*