Which brings me to the second point. With what happened to a high profile MMORPGs like AC2 or Earth & Beyond, I think it should be more than obvious to anyone that it would be a mistake to even hope such high numbers for a game coming from a little known developer. In the present time, MMORPGs are facing a problem far more threatening than the number of players that can play on a single server. In fact, the problem IS the number of potential players. The genre needs new ideas, not new numbers. Putting more people on one server is nothing new.