I love playing MMO's, except the shitty ones. I like how Sword of the New World kinda has a story and actually name their characters, even the shop owners. It helps you create a relationship with everyone when they have a name. And I like how mabinogi made the game more than just grinding, you can get rich by making clothing for people, or being a pro chef. How many games can you do that in? Not many. Sure people are supposed to be playing for the experience of making friends and completely quests together, but when the quests suck and the game sucks, and half the people don't speak english and the other half don't wanna party with you than it's kinda hard.

Another thing MMO's need, is one universal combat system. When I play MMO's I always wanna be an archer, and in most games being an archer is kool, but than Mabinogi came out and ruined being an archer. I went to be an archer the other day and bam i started a fight with a red fox and I almost got my ass kicked. Why you ask, well because of this lil number above you head that shows you getting ready to fire an arrow. Once the number reaches 100% u fire, well, my character usually only reached 99% because than the fox would move so i had to re aim and than get ready again. WTH did my guy take the arrow out and put it back in the quiver, cause if he did I could see why it took so long. I own a bow and a crossbow and I'm an avid hunter and I know for a fact it doesnt take that long, and once the bow is pulled back and ready to fire u can aim all you wait with out having to reset. So why in the hell did mabinogi eff it up. Seriously if every games combat system played the same, or atleast was consistent than gaming would be better. Think about it all games have the same jobs, same weapons and same style of play. So you would think one of the best MMO's would realize that hey the combat system is good let's not fuck with it. But that doesn't really matter cause I fucked up my mabinogi character 3 times now and I don't feel like starting over again so I quit :P. I guess MMO's have a universal system all excluding mabi's fucked archer.

So to make the perfect world gold game you need a few things. Great character development, make the player actually wanna continue playing. Make it easy to level, but not too easy.