I agree but I am now thinking we are on the cusp of new projects. How many WoW clones have been released now? They have all failed to take even 10% of the gamers WoW has because WoW is the best at what it does.
I think backers will start looking at new ideas again but it'll still take 5 years before we start seeing big budget mmorpgs (2014!!)

Of all the game recently released I think WAR could have been the closest to the crown if they hadn't fucked it up ...
I might go back to WoW tbh, there really isn't much else worth playing, I liked the sound of Wurm online but it is a lttle hard core for me.
Sax.