...and that's why the MMO genre will become stale, and slowly die.... These guys were new kids on the block once so to speak and produced astounding games. Now, it's all ego and bluster, with nothing of substance.

I think it's fair to say when I say new talent, I didn't mean what you implied 'new kid', there are a hell of a lot of people in the MMO industry who could push the envelope, and you've fallen foul of the main problem with current games, they are the product of "teams", not individuals and the longer we have assclowns like Garriott telling us what he is doing next, the worse it is for MMO players...