Every MMO Is The Same

Back to WoW. I made a new character and I'm going to try to get an achievement every day and see how long I can last.

But it did occur to me when I was reading about the newly-found freeness of DDO -- nearly every MMO is the same.

A few months ago I endeavored to find a new MMOG to play, and ended up finding a few different lists of massive games and looking at screenshots of most of them. I didn't like what I saw because every massive game has the exact same screenshot : a dude in the middle of your screen, hanging out in a 3D world.

There are precious few exceptions -- EVE Online, Air Rivals, Naval Field, and Maple Story, to name a few. Would that there were more.