To be fair, MMOs after WoW were mostly bad as well. Such was the success of WoW (which, make no mistake, was a very good game), that it dried up the field compl

To be fair, MMOs after WoW were mostly bad as well. Such was the success of WoW (which, make no mistake, was a very good game), that it dried up the field completely: every "MMO" afterwards had to be a WoW clone with the same gameplay, same action bar, same progression, same end-game style, etc. There were exceptions and there was innovation of course, but I feel no game ever came close to making true justice to the possibilities of a shared, persistent, virtual world. Those that came closer imo were UO and SWG: both before WoW :)