After seeing many known and unknown projects being announced as closing. The massive rounds of layoffs occuring within the Technology and Transportation sectors. Things just are not looking good for that next game that pushes the limits.
Do you see anything being developed in the pipeline that will set the next standard for games? Looking at the steam library and Steam Recommended games, it seems that we are just going backwards 
From Top Down ARPG’s re-doing Diablo, to MMO’s going the Old School Route, with dated graphics, or back to pixelated graphics. I really have yet to find that game that really stands out. I am concerned about the Gaming Industry as a whole as it appears that risks are no longer being taken.
I hope I am wrong and do wish to see that Open World Survival Fantasy based ARPG Mmo before I am retired…or the wife decides that I’ve been playing for too long and need to get out 
What are your thoughts?
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Light No Fire is probably the only game in theory that I can see would fit most of what you described. I don’t think it will be an ARPG though. I view an ARPG as something like Black Dessert Online which is a true ARPG.
I personally just play games that are enjoyable even if it’s just in the moment. No Man’s Sky is amazing, but it’s not an MMO and if they can make Light No Fire have a huge world where everyone is on a planet all at once and I can run into one of a million people in the game then I’m there.
I mentioned this to you in Discord too:
I think Boundless has massive potential. I wouldn’t say it has enough potential to be the next standard in gaming, but it does a lot of things right in the genre that it’s in and I’d even say it’s probably done it better than all the games in the genre including “big daddy” Minecraft. There needs to be a lot of QoL changes and a better NPE and even then, I wouldn’t say it sets the next standard, but I do feel it sets pretty high bar for games in the genre. Quoting for an article I read:
Sean Murray touts Light No Fire as “the first real open world” game.
In my opinion, I’d almost say Boundless did it first. 