SOE has aquired so many reasonably talented developers that they should be able to produce far better games than they have. The depressing thing to me is that in a conversation with the average/typical MMO gamer there are more interesting and worthwhile new ideas than SOE has produced since Everquest was released.
Honestly, I think a company like SOE should hire some lurkers to hang out at message boards for games like WoW and Everquest 2 so they can farm the ideas of their gamers to make a more enjoyable MMO game; obviously most ideas would be useless but after you seperated the good ideas from the bad you'd be able to implement a unique and interesting game.







