lol of course wow will die off (no mmo lasts forever). It has the same problem as eq1 and eq2 now. There is no low lvl population. If everyone is high lvl, eventually they get bored of raiding and move on to something new. It happened with wow players leaving for rift and it will happen with swtor. The difference would be that rift has no end game content, so a lot of people hit max lvl and quit. It also didn't have an engaging story. The instances weren't bad, and the dungeon finder works very well, but those aren't enough to keep a large playerbase. Well....no I guess wow had less than that when it started and it's doing fine now. Either way wow has peaked. You can't stay top dog forever.
I've played a lot of mmo's in closed beta, and this is by far was the most complete lol. A lot of people seem to forget or just don't know, that wow had tons of beta testing (like all blizzard games) and it was released more broken than this game in closed beta.
I do like the pvp mechanics of wow and rift, but this allows players to not get 1 shotted so it's going to pull in more people just because of the survivability. And for all of us that can actually pvp, who doesn't want to devour some newbs?
