Abriael, there is not one item in your response I can possibly agree 100% on really. I'd like to see your source for the number of players and current accounts too, because the last official information is over 3 months old, and Blizzard recently gave some figures as to the number of players returning to WoW. While Blizzard maybe can not be trusted, the same criticism can be leveled at Mythic also.

I completely understand you like this game, but let's not try and fool ourselves here, we are both intelligent people. Content doesn't have to be 'expressed' as you say, that's half the problem here, it needs to be proven reliably and regularly, Mythic has no history other than cutting content right now and the addition of a battleground or two.

Also looking at a community form the inside can be as short-sighted as looking at community from the outside. The numbers are down, it's hard as hell to do things in groups and people are cynical about the content 'additions'. My story is that my WAR sub ran out after the free period, and I didn't even really notice. Never had that happen before in an MMO, pretty sad that my enthusiasm dropped so quickly.

While I commend you for sticking up for 'your game' and I too really wish WAR was better, I can't agree that it offers anything new or exciting with the preferred ways to level in WoW style battlegrounds without the same depth of PvE or openness in the world that WoW has. WAR is like a bunch of maps cut and pasted together, and the linear direction of PvE gameplay has alienated people, PvP fan or not, they all pay subs.

I also agree WAR has more classes than WoW, but do I really need 20 odd ways of still being bored and alone? I don't know how you measure 'amounts of content' other than to say it's purely subjective unless supoorted by anacdotal evidense, so can't agree or disagree here.

In WAR now I have linear maps with 5-10 quests per hub, with every 30 mins to an hour, a new group grind quest, so kill quests, and if I'm lucky a battleground. If I'm really lucky there is a chance to defend a castle that no one really cares about, or to stand no chance to take a keep because no one else is online. The best thing is, I have to go through all of this on a conveyor belt!

I'm happy to entertain intelligent discussion on the subject, but from my experiences and the reaction to the community in general, I don't think my thoughts are too extreme.