![Image](http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/1747/vbcraftix3.jpg)
Now take a good look at that picture. It has crafting tree just like uo and wow has, it has skill requirments just like uo and wow have and resource requirments just like uo and wow have. Now tell me what is all that good for if its just used for making ur self one armor and one weapon? Or even just upgrading you armor and weapon. You mean you would have to raise crafting skills just to advance one armor? No, its just obvious it was going to be used to trade with other players or suply a faction like brotherhood or slaver for example. If you look at the picture its not a npc you bring some stuff to so he can make you the item like crafting works in most single player games.
That crafting tree is pretty similar to one you bashed in Wasteland merc except it has even more items to craft and thats mainly cause fallout 2 has less items than van buren was going to have. So Rosh cut the crap about van buren crafting was going to be like in all other single player games crafting. Cause according to that screenshot it wasnt.
And about mmo being hard to make comercial and shit you are on about. Sure i dont think Harve can pull it off specially cause he is trying to go full blown wow stile mmo without any staff that can make it or money to make it. But there are comercial mmos that have worked before with no budget at all. You dont have to invest 100 million dollars in 100 huge servers to start with like wow did just to make it work.
Dont belive me take a look at runescape.com, i hate it but it was still made by 2 guys as school project at they are now making money out of it.