What do people want from MMO's?

[Mikeybb]

I want a challenge that is determined by gameplay difficulty, not by resilience to grinding.

A sandbox environment with room to explore.

While I do enjoy aspects of the grind, I just don't have the time for it any more.

Customization of the player avatar without trying to turn my wallet inside out through microtransactions.
I'm happy to support microtransactions for cosmetic changes, but the games that provide those options have insane pricing structures.
Secret world, I'm looking at you.

 

[Stats ^1]

I want them to move outside of the WoW formula. There's no reason for them to be 'grab a quest, do a dungeon'.

Take final fantasy 14 as an example. Even if we ignore how the combat is identical to that in wow and guild wars 1, why is there a loot system based on dice rolling? It's an archaic system which even wow ditched about a year or two ago.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

This appears to be an innocent necro as opposed to a malicious one, so I'm going to report my post instead of Someski's to call the mods attention to that fact before you get auto-warned.

 

[Elfgore]

@BloatedGubby: Thanks for bringing this to mod attention.

Spoiler: Now, time to kill it before it's too late! No... it is dancing now!!