Hardcore is not a dirty word

[Konachibi]

That sounds hardcore to me... i don't know why you would think i would say otherwise, what you said fits the bill of hardcore but so does FF11. All that you just said insert FF11 there and bam there you have it.

But in WoW it's not hard to level (quite the opposite in fact), it can be solo'd up to end-game content (within 2 weeks), it doesn't have a high learning curve (just a high perfection curve), there isn't tonnes of camping, you don't have to invest a great deal of time into the game and the economy was just like a normal economy, good stuff was high price, bad/useless stuff was low price.

None of it fits into your description of a hardcore game.