...that Activision could start claiming revenue for all the WoW Machinima videos?

Wouldn't Google have to block Win 8 completely? ;) As much as I admit they are popular features, it seems like MS is shooting themselves in the foot yet again.

...the fact that there are 7 times as many humans on Earth as there was even a couple hundred years ago.

Not saying fossil fuels aren't contributing, but surely the population issue has to be a contributing factor too.

Actually, I trust the final expansion will likely be the last grand battle against the Burning Legion as they finally reach Azeroth itself en masse. It's been hinted at as far back as WC3.

Pandaren came first, actually (in WC3, 5 years before KFP)... however, they probably played on the KFP hype to center an expansion around them.

Good point... that number is simply the number of actively-subscribed players. How many does it end up being if you count in those who are on the Starter Edition (up to Level 20 is free)?

Actually, my gf got me into it. Still with her, too... in fact, the day Gov. Dayton signs the marriage equality bill, she'll be my fiancée. I wish that damn gamer stereotype would just die.

No, instead they realize that in order to keep up, they need to spend RL money on gear. The day you can (ToS-legally) buy powered gear with RL money in WoW is the day I stop playing, logging in just enough to RP out endings to my toons' characters.

I also had no problem with Wine. Granted, I had to figure out how to install it in Wine (hint: do NOT use game DVDs, use the downloadable installer), and remember to disable ActiveX in favor of OpenGL, but other than that, it was gravy. In fact, WoW is one of the most compatible major Windows programs to use with Wine.

Not as many as it used to be, and on "kill-to-collect" quests, the drop rate usually ends up being about every other kill. The entire 1-60 experience got revamped in Cata. Some of the older-style quests still show up in the 60-80 experience though, since those parts have not been redone fully, however, they did remove the old "group quests" by nerfing a lot of those quests' bosses ("group quests" still show up at L70 (Outland Shadowmoon) and L80 (Northrend Icecrown) ranked areas though)

It's not so much Free-2-Play I have a problem.... it's Pay-2-Win, where whoever has the deepest pockets IRL gets all the glory. WoW has not yet turned into that, but the moment it ever DOES, I'm out...

Suddenly I'm reminded of one of Data's lines in Star Trek: "Television ceased as a viable medium in 2040."

Looks like the scriptwriter may have overestimated its popularity. :)

Not really, because with CATV, everyone is split off the same receiving apparatus (antenna/sat dish at the cable company). With Aereo, everyone has their own antenna. That's the legal difference.

The difference with cable is that with cable, all subscribers are accessing the same feed, hence making it a paid-for public performance. This is not true with Aereo. With Aereo, each customer gets his/her own dime-sized antenna (locked by password) that only picks up normal broadcast stations. That's a significant difference, and why it's not considered a "public" performance like cable TV is.

Aereo also allows live viewing, and you can't really skip commercials in that.