I don't think Blizzard has implemented the Scroll of Resurrection program because of current losses, I think they implemented it because of future competition. Several new MMO's are being released soon which may provide serious competition, and Blizzard wants to head them off. I know that I WILL be trying out Tabula Rasa for at least a few months.

But the source of this article is basically just being sour grapes. He's quit WoW, and he's finding reasons to beat up on it and predict its doom. Of course Blizzard has made a million glaring mistakes in the development of WoW. But the fact remains that it has still blown away the competition, and it will remain in command until the competition blows it away in turn.

WoW will remain in dominant until someone takes all the things that they did right and puts them into a new game that does even MORE things right than Blizzard. Shouldn't be too hard though. Blizzard showed a better way to pace MMO's.

Strong lore, interesting NPC characters and areas, less-is-more art style, easy pacing, meaningful quests and rewards, cool endgame areas... they did it better than anyone had before. But there's STILL lots of room for improvement.

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