Yeah some of their expansions were bad, but some were great. SWG is incomplete, they spent way too much time making the flags flap in the wind so there's absolutely no end-game content, but it can still be a good time if you've a good group willing to tackle some of the dungeons that do exist. I never played Planetside, I'm not a big FPS fan and it looked terrible anyway. I just think WoW will be shallow compared to EQ2, because I think SOE will look at the results of EQ and SWG and see that they need to spend more time on content like they did in EQ. WoW looks like EQ with different names for classes. I think that once the thrill of playing an MMO in Lordaeron, Azeroth et al. wears off, players will be left with a game that didn't really bring anything to the genre. SOE made this mistake with SWG, leaning too heavily on the excitement of playing in the Star Wars Universe, and not including the necessary content for an MMO. Hopefully they'll learn from it and do a top notch job on EQ2.
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