Comment Re:You overestimate WoW (Score 0) 86
That's a lot of people who have already decided they like MMOs and _are_ looking for a new MMO to play...
Define 'new'? My impression is that 'new' means it actually brings additions/changes to the known formula.
If the players who leave WOW were looking for more of the same, why leave in the first place?
I will pay for a good clone of X-COM 1 or 2 (silent prayer), but what really excites me is the next game I will find that will be as dear as X-COM is to me while being entirely different.
Let the Vanguard team try going wherever they want. I read a quote once that goes along these lines: The greatest advances in science aren't the ones that came after a "Eureka!", rather the ones that came after a "That's funny..."
(Points to whoever comes up with the original quote and/or whoever said it)