i can't really agree with this. it comes off more as 'press release reporting' than substantive exploration of the game.

and, as has been mentioned, the lack of a release date is conspicuous by its absence.

the real question is, how long will the current -- ever diminishing i might add -- player base continue to actually subscribe considering there is absolutely nothing new coming until the MoP launch.

It's getting pretty bad (well, has been for weeks now) in game; you can tell from the # of pugs etc that people are pretty much done with cata.

Why not just release some crazy world bosses or something? just plop a couple down in each continent, give them a simple lore excuse for their existence (spaceship emissaries come to harvest the gnome race for alien amuse-bouche?) and make it open-ended 40 man (or whatever) raids that also double as moving PVP opportunities.

anything to keep the game from rotting out.

@threesixteen

A release date being "Conspicuous it's absence"?

Really, have you just started playing Blizzard Games or what?