Damien is dead on. There are FAR too many design teams trying to recreate the wheel.

I want to pull what's left of my hair out sometimes listening to new pitches about "Oh, WE'RE going to do MMOs right!" and give this terrible concept like DnL had about 40,000 square miles of territory that would take hours to find a mob.

That's not innovative. Or fun. Just stupid.

The worst though are all of those teams out there that don't employ sound procedures and technique because they are an "organic team".

In my experience "organic" means "soon to be out of business".