Quote Originally Posted by AuctionGirl View Post
Rank increases != WoW Clone

If you are smart about the rank increases then its overall better (huge increases are bad, keep em small like 5 ranks at a time), as explained before WoW Destroys all previous content, keep rank caps on the older content + changing drops within it, will keep old content as good as new content while allowing for progression and advancement of characters.
And this is the end point. If they do it the right way it will work. If they don't it'll kill the game. Too many games try to fill the same shoes as WoW, and don't make it. FFXI for a long time filled the void that existed. Most people came to this game to find that Void filler again. At the moment that void is still empty, and if they do it wrong, that void will continue to exist. WoW while being the most populous, most money making MMORPG out there, will never fill that void. However, depending on how it is done, this game will die like all the others.