Despite the opening of the article, I wouldn't put much stock in The Old Republic being a long-term threat to WoW. Short term, it probably did take some players

Despite the opening of the article, I wouldn't put much stock in The Old Republic being a long-term threat to WoW. Short term, it probably did take some players from WoW. Anyone who is currently playing TOR knows that the server populations have been steadily declining, particularly since the end of the first month. It isn't the same catastrophic decline that other would-be WoW challengers had, but it isn't going to hold sky-high subscriber numbers, either.