Guild Wars 2

I see this all the time. People say “But this is an MMO! So it has to be somewhat like WoW!”, when really they mean “WoW is the only MMO I ever played, so all others have to be like it!”. No, just no, MMO merely describes a game mode, they can be anything, from RPG to FPS to RTS. They could make a Minesweeper MMO for heavens sake!
This notion that an MMO has to be like xyz is what keeps ruining promising games.

Yeap. And even a MMORPG don’t have to be like WoW. It actually shouldn’t be like WoW because what’s the point of making a worse clone of something?

I never played WoW (Well, level 7 in the trial if that counts, hated it), but I am curious as to what you are referring to specifically, I feel like playing devils advocate here as I assume you didn’t make a post intending to only get people agreeing with you.

You only need to casually skim any game’s forum to see a lot of people equating the MMO tag with EQ style gameplay, and this happens here as well. At least a handful of forumers in favor of the recent changes have argued that an MMO simply has to have grind and power creep and frankly that’s getting tiring because that is just not true and I wonder about the intention behind this. Why do some people oppose variety in their gaming?