I get the feeling he had part of an idea or heard someone else talking about one, and didn't really understand what to do with it.
For instance, he mentions multiple times that levels won't be needed to get mounts, vehicles, etc... It's like he was frustrated by the artificial confines of levels, but rather than making something distinct, perhaps by simply doing away with levels entirely and finding some new way to reward progression, he takes away the annoying (but essential) parts, like someone tired of filling a gas tank and thus simply removing it from the car.
Moreover, he seems to wish to create a new WoW, assuming with a cargo-cult type thought process that all he needs to do is have things called "raids" and "guilds" in the game, and the players will be there. Besides the few absurd departures he mentions, (such as "space travel" between servers, complete with space battles, showing a total lack of understanding of the basic purpose of separate servers,) his "feature list" reads as nothing more or less than a list of minor ways his game will differ from other MMOs- the one that stands out most clearly to me being that one will be able to use mounts at level 1.
This man is making a new MMO from scratch, in part because he wants to lower the requirements for mounts.
This man does not need to start his own kickstarter project. Instead, he needs to donate to kickstarter projects. He wants to see new games, but he just doesn't have any new ideas.
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