Quote Originally Posted by Stanelis View Post
Actually there really is, if you had played wow at this time you'd have seen. The sky was literally falling at the end of wod. There are no shortages of interviews where blizzard admitted they screwed up (according to them it was because they trained new developers).
That's not exactly proof of anything, but I'll take your word for it.

Except the decline in the case of wow is correlated to the beginning of the bad design decisions they started to make.
Except no, it isn't if you're going to stick to "It all started falling apart in WotLK." WotLK launched in November of 2008; the game was dipping in search popularity as soon as February, 2007.

Except, as already said, blizzard never claimed that wow would be a RTS. So, here again, I don't really understand the point you're trying to make. Sure some people would have loved to get warcraft IV, but that's beside the point. Nobody forced the RTS players to come to wow.
Nobody forced RPG players to come to XIV.