Designing an MMORPG or Why Skyrim Got Boring

Not that long ago I was singing Skyrim's praises. And deservedly so. It's nearly a perfect game, at least for me. But nearly isn't close enough. It's reached the wall now where it's just repeat, repeat and repeat. The same quests over and over. I haven't even finished the main quests because I got bored with everything else.

My favorite kind of game to play is an MMORPG. I started with Ultima Online, went to Final Fantasy XI, onto World of Warcraft and dabbled in Lord of the Rings, City of Heroes, Tabula Rasa and lots of others.

I love the community aspects of them. I love all that there is to do. I love being able to level up to a new zone and have a new look, new quests, etc...

What I don't like is the grinding aspects of it and the repeating of the questing.

I solo a lot in those games. But I still love the community aspects. I just hit a wall when I run out of solo stuff to do and have to group. It's a grind to find the groups and get the goals accomplished. Same with reputation quests. Repeating the same quest every single day is obnoxious.

WoW has made some strides in this, giving their raid dungeons (which can be fun, don't get me wrong) different group sizes and levels, which yield different loot.

Why can't we take this to it's end?

Make all dungeons soloable. Obviously there would be vastly different loot. The solo stuff wouldn't be anywhere near as good as the raid stuff, but it would be able to stand on it's own.

Also make every experience different. I'll make a new race character to explore the starting zones but when gotta get into the same areas as before, it gets boring and I give up.

Keep all the community aspects, the raid dungeons for those that like to do it, but make everyone soloable and get rid of the problem of doing the same quests over and over for reputation. Make sure there are some repeatable but make more standard quests.

It can be done.

The first MMMORPG that has those things will get me back into online gaming again.