Heh...yeah WoW forums are where gating is being discussed heavily in the negative connotation. Though to be fair, it's referring to a lot of artificial and arbitrary gating like only letting you get x amount of rep a day or how dailies were when they initially launched. Gating isn't inherently bad as it's how the devs want their game to be played. If their motives are suspect, then it's questionably received, but not wanting you to be able to do x acitivity yet, or go to y place, isn't 'bad' if you catch what I mean.
It's people like you that even introduce that concept. We haven't been uttering anything like that. Sooo yeah. Maybe it's just WoW people who label things WoW killers in order to turn around and say it failed. Perspective.