dennis.schuette

"A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing" is what comes to mind here first.

Frogster clearly stated in their press release the game will be subscription based in Europe as well.

And no, Frogster never was a pure F2P publisher only because their biggest success is a F2P MMO with an item mall.
They still have a Bounty Bay Online (in NA known as Voyage Century) server running with subscription fees alongside the BBO F2P servers.

Avatar more than once reminded me of Atys, the living planet ( http://tinyurl.com/yjvyfrc ), the Zoraï people on it, and its gorgeously illuminated Prime Roots, for those who know Ryzom. I'm confident that's coincidental though and also Pandora looks light years better!

I can't see that the second point is true and the business model is followed widely. The GW business model is an anomaly which works fine for GW but wouldn't work, at least not at the sole business model, for most other virtual worlds. Other than that I agree with this list.

For me, apart from the patching process, the ability to switch languages in-game with only a keystroke is one of the most awesome GW features, particularly so if you're a non-English native speaker. Never seen that in another VW so far...