Originally Posted by
Tomana
Yeah, let's look at the bigger picture. Only it won't be the one you're formulating in your twisted imagination.
Sub-based MMO market is saturated since about 2009. Other sub-based games are dropping like flies (hi2u rift and SWTOR), the only ones holding are mostly WoW and EvE (on a much smaller segment). Plus, you have F2P games all over the place. Plus, the product is 10 years old.
Consequently, even if Blizzard does a wonderful job (which they did), you cannot stop the churn of players to other market segments. Especially since those offer bite-sized content which is much easier to digest by the typical casual player. And there is no way to counter that for WoW, if only because of the 1-90 leveling.