OSRS and Tibia are a exception to this
Blame Wow, it stole most of buy RuneScape gold the cake which investors and developers replicate the version and got much achievement. If wow did not have such a big subscriber count we would see more programmers danger, OSRS and Tibia are a exception to this since they're so old and predate wow. Id state Albion is a exception but it is not my cup of java and that I have zero expectations that we'll ever receive a game since mmo players are use to the wow development model. It's successful because it is combat and core gameplay in times of entirely disastrous game design was still the very best in the genre and it's not going away. And to be honest, I can't see how developers can not risk because of WoW. There was never any risk in that, although yeah afk grinders which OP discusses in th…