Quote Originally Posted by CapricaLangley View Post
Maybe you are right. To me, it seemed the right time for this debate because in three days the MMO which arguably is the most popular of all time will relaunch its 1.12 version, a project run by a company that recently went full "shareholders revenue". An hypothetical success of the product could completely redesign the balances of the MMO market and influence future design choices.
If vanilla wow is sucessful in the long run maybe some developper will look back at things and notice how the genre got trapped in the evolutionary dead end it is currently in, and then start to develop something new with the same principles. But don't expect this to happen before a few years.