This game is lucky in a sense that there isn't really any MMOs coming out soon and Wow is in a twilight stage of its expansion during which people generally don't like to return. Still this game has too many issues that will easily make a good portion of the population bail. Tera, GW2, TSW and Rift all had much smoother launches than this and they still fell apart within months (Well Rift lasted a little longer). People will not take the "It's new" excuse for the lack of content and the existing problems, the MMO market is a very narrow field where no game other than Wow has been able to hold a stable population for years and SE sure as hell isn't looking like they are going to do better.