I have a much different perspective on this. This seems like a case where demand and financial motivations have happily converged. > Although It was and still

I have a much different perspective on this. This seems like a case where demand and financial motivations have happily converged. > Although It was and still is the best game I ever played, without constant releases, it just won't persist - World of Warcraft doesn't mean to be modeled as a game with infinite replay value without new releases. And there won't be new releases because would be branching the game. We'll see. As evidenced by a thriving private server community built on reverse engineered servers, a lot of people simply disagree. They want to play the old game and have no interest in seeing it updated. I always felt a bit sad that parts of my childhood are simply gone (i.e. patched out of existence). So I see this development as positive. It makes me happy. I think I feel like my dad felt when he bought The Prisoner (60s TV show that he watched as a kid) on VHS and we watched it together.