So really? WOW killer?

WoW is dead.

This is correct. It only has about 1 million legitimate subs.

The other 9 million are a combination of gold sellers, character sellers, and gold sellers who also sell characters.

Not odd at all. Another quote spoke for me, without me having to rehash his thoughts in different words. My thoughts afterwards correllate with the quote i responded to. Sorry if i didnt stick to the original posts topic. But i already dont expect much reason from someone looking to start a WoW Killer thread. StarWars as a franchise makes WoW/ Blizzard look like a blip on a radar. Satisfied?

There are websites that track server populations and overall player populations have been declining.
Sure, some people re-roll on more populated servers. But many people are sick of the grind, and don't feel like re-doing everything again.
Plus, they lose all their Legacy, etc. if they re-roll on a server that has players on it.

As for being a WoW killer, you won't dethrone the king of you make a game that plays exactly the same, while not implementing all of the features that have become the norm for most players.

Only a real next-gen MMO can kill WoW. It will need to deliver new gameplay experiences and mgame mechanics. People don't wan't another WoW-clone. They have already put in a LOT of time into WoW.

If there is a WoW-killer, it will likely be a next-gen MMO released by Blizzard..

I will contend this point.

SWG killed SWG long before SWTOR came along. CU/NGE was a double shot in the crotch that never fully healed.

"While Asia accounts for roughly 50 percent of global users, we estimate the region contributes less than 10 percent of total WoW revenues, due to the licensing structure and timecard model," he wrote.

Blizzard uses a lot of trickery to make people believe they have "10million" subs.

I don't disagree. They've become very good at masking the true volume of active players.

My better half was amped for FFXIV and then when it hit she stuck it out for another 6months even though the game was garbage. Sometimes hype gets the best of us all sir/ms. GL to you where ever you land.

BW actually said back in 2006 that they would not a game meant to kill WoW, but they did say from then till about 09 or '10 that they were expecting to compete on the same level as WoW which means they set the expectation for their game extremely high.

As someone who's been following this game's development for 6 years now, BW sort of made their own mess with the unfair expectations of their fans. It's not really the fans' fault for thinking it would compete with WoW. I actually feel sorry for the masses that were expecting a solid title and got...well...this.

Still a fun game, despite the plethora of design flaws and failures in execution, but it could have been so much more. BW has smart people working for them, they're taking this failure of their own expectations seriously and I have no doubt they will be fixing all the major issues by the end of the year. Whether or not that's fast enough is something I would rather not speculate on.

Rerolling is essentially quitting and then starting over.

The wise people stopped at the "quitting" part.