"Just remember, WoW has been the exception to the rule, not the rule."

Oh please, I never spotted that when I did my post. You really are stretching this now. It's like some paid consultancy service trying to make a sale - free to post?. or just really bad at logic - wow proves the exact opposite if anything.

So for (possibly tenuous but I may as well join in) example: all WARs players left as a protest as it's sub model? No, they all went out and brought a boxed set, played it, thought it was a bit crap, and left. (Disclaimer: it may well of improved now) Make something new and exciting sounding or be doomed to beg for peoples spare change, don't blame the model. Live and develop within your means or don't bother.

Let all the WoW clones go free to play, great. Live and let live, but please stop pulling out the most tenuous of arguments to support your theory and ruining some promising games out there. It's embarrassing now.