To be fair -- well more than half of WoW's playerbase pays no subscription fee at all, and looking at the growing number of free-to-play games, that's going to become more of a trend in the west as well as time goes on. I'm sure DDO will continue trying to take the credit, but GW was definitely the pioneer there, and should be proud of its role going forward.

And SOE would disagree that EQ2 splintered their franchise. Indeed, SOE argued that EQ2 would bring people into EQ1 who'd never played. Certainly, if either game stopped being highly popular and profitable, they'd cease pumping out expansion after expansion for them both, as they have with some of their other games (like SWG).

As far as a bullet list, the GW2 site and popular GW forums have plenty of FAQs and information about what the game will bring. I'm sure it'll be done just as soon as it's done. If you're not wowed by the vids they've released already though, you might just be too jaded for this genre. :D