I've read so many threads on these forums about how rift, SW: TOR and anything/everthing else will kill WoW, I don't believe anything can really kill it except itself and/or blizzard.
But one thing has been itching at the back of my mind is how many people seem to forget about Guild Wars 2 (heck I don't think Jesse Cox or TB have mentioned it).
I know not much has been released of it yet into the public's eye, and all that has been released could literally be the good bits, but if they do keep to their promise on a game that's something like 3/4 years in the making then I do believe that GW2 could be massive, I watched a clip about the way the skills work (with a person from the guild wars team commentating it) and he said that one of the elementalists elite skills turns them into a huge tornado! I mean seriously!? - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsgB9-1mysM -
Anyway, my point is this, Guild Wars was a great game (and in my opinion the PvP in GW was a goggolplex times better than WoW's, mainly for the fact nobody hid behind resilience and all the good gear was extremely accessible so that all that was left was the skill of the players, that and GW had a PvP version of some skills), and if GW2 lives up to it's promise when it eventually comes out with it's simply stunning graphics, possibly the best spell graphics I've ever seen in my life, and it's amazing world and quite interesting and intriguing questing and changing world system, and blizz hasn't done anything amazing to WoW by then that completely re-sparks the life of the game, then I reckon that GW2 won't kill WoW but has the potential to seriously hurt WoW like no other game has before it.
Thanks for reading
P.S. Did I mention that it's still going to have no monthly fees? yes that means once you've bought it, that's it then, nothing else to pay