It actually is killing itself. When your game is more stress than fun and it requires 25 people to even play the game you're doing it wrong.

I've yet to meet one person happy with Lich King.

WoW is killing itself, but in a different way. The downtime in China is really going to reek havok on the subscriptions for the game. It's been over a month and right there, that's a 5 million player base suddenly not paying.

It could also be argued that Blizzard went too far to the other side, and went too causal with the raiding etc. PvP is worth nothing right now, BGs and Arena are in a living dead state and raiding is almost too easy now. They over compensated in my opinion.

http://tobolds.blogspot.com...

The game is too addicting to people with low self-esteem for them to quit. The game could suck, like many MMORPG's out there and people will still play. It clearly has huge issues, especially since the release of WoTLK, and will continue to have issues as long as it exists.

Im slowing stepping Away from WoW i'm even back to playing Phantasy star. atleast untill Aions comes out.

Wow doesnt cater to the top 5%.. That was EQ and look where it is today. Almost completely dead. Now that was a game that catered to a very small number of players. Hell they took advice fromthat 5% on EQ2 and it came out and bombed.. Never listen to the most die hard fans. They dont speak for everyone.. I mean what moron thought forcing groups to have 2 healers was a geat idea? Its hard enough just finding one healer in EQ let alone 2 in EQ2