Just a post i posted on shacknews about Wows 9m players.

The whole 9million figure is suck a crock of crap.

Firstly there not 9m active accounts.
Secondly and speaking for myself here alot of people are sick to death of wow. You hit the level cap and can either
1) Raid (no thanks id like to half a life) or
2) PVP (ok sounds good but didnt i just do AV 10 mins ago?)

So if your a casual player which i ended up as due to hating raiding and its insane time sink and demands. 4 hours of sitting in front of your PC and falling asleep after 30mins isnt fun.

PVP is all theres left and doing 4 battlefields over and over just for the sake of a few items of gear gets tired after while so you roll a new class and rince and repeat. When i quit wow i had 7 alts (insane yes i know) and since ive tried AoC and left and now im still finding my way in WAR im taking my time and not rushing it through like i did in WoW.

I hope WAR can succeed heck even AoC but as long as they know they cant beat WoW from the start then theres hope. Id love to see Blizzard get some competion from another MMO lord knows they need it.

http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?story=54530#itemanchor_18043455