What happens when you build a 30' Tsunami wall around a Nuclear power plant, then get hit by a 35' wave. You create a great big swimming pool.

That is some of these players may leak back out, but some will get trap in our awesome game for the duration. >:)

I highly doubt we'll see a "Former WoW players raid Perpetuum!" thread.....

no, youll see a 'Former WoW players stuck in outposts' thread as they cannot figure out how to exit

Yes, Ive played WoW for a few months. Not saying 'all wow players are stoopid' but met a few that made me thankfukk WoW existed, it kept these people away from other games where I might have to deal with them.

If by failures you mean "Sorry, don't have a super high end computer for this patch", then prolly a few.

Wow has been out since 2004, and has been the de-facto MMO for atleast 5 years and made 100's of millions of dollars. I would hardly call that fail.

Just like long running TV shows, even MMO's have to reach an end-of-life. While players associate the MMO with an alternate reality for themselves, companies with investors are looking at products with 'growth'. So Bliz is known to be working on a new MMO, and being the leader in the market, anything they put out is going to cannablize thier own customer base.

WoW's huge player base has somewhat streached the typical MMO/Game cycle of Release-expansion-maintenance-closure but it's not immune. And of course Blizzard isn't going to shut-down the cash cow while it's still pouring out milk, it's looking 5-10 years down the road at the next game that isn't based on subscriptions, since the MT model has proven to be much more lucrative.

That is, Blizzard isn't looking to create antother Iconic MMO, realistically they'll put their development efforts into high-profit games like Synga and let WOW just slowly fade away.