Originally Posted by
brunnor
WoW brought all possible MMO players to WoW. It didn't bring all possible gamers. It is now trying to bring all possible gamers and its pushing away the all possible MMO crowd. That is why tons of people play all the new MMO betas and such, they are looking for something better than WoW, mostly.
There is a rule on what an MMORPG is about as it's been that way for years. Thinking inside the box got WoW 12 million subs, thinking outside of it has brought that number to 8.3 million. When WoW was an MMORPG by definition it thrived fully.