And in 1.20b we'll have...

[Zantetsuken]

WOW=$ common sense that so many company's would look at their success and try to replicate some of it. they ask them selves a ? what do they have they we do not?

If you go down that road far enough, you end up with a WoW clone. In which case, why not play WoW?

I for one, do not attribute WoW's success to their volume of mounts.

WoW was a lowest-common-denominator game. The success of WoW could be easily be likened to the success of 'Two and a Half Men' or 'CSI Miami'.

In my opinion, Fan-service mounts are a fast track to creating that kind of game.