this. omg.
When do people finally realize, that WoW doesn't count for every mmo player that is out there. There are people, absolutely new to mmo's who came just to play a game in their favorite universe. When geez. It has a core of players and they won't go anywhere. There are new patches along the way which will only bring more players. And from that, there will only be a slow grow forth more and more players. When GW2 comes out, it will only bring either new players, players who left after GW1 (and I know plenty) and take some amount of players from WoW. This genre is no longer about one silly (nowadays) game. There can and will be more. The population will just spread. And the core-bases will grow. And everyone will live happily ever after. Happyend.
Now I think that's the kind of positivity the OP was asking for, so can we please stop trying to bash the "other" games over and over again ? I mean, isn't it kind of boring by now for you guys ?