First link doesn't have anything about GC in it.
From the second link:
While the game may continue to go strongly for a long time, do you think WoW may have hit its peak subscription number at all?
Ghostcrawler: I mean, gosh, that is so hard to know. It’s really
hard to tell what is… you know it’s a seven-year-old game at this point.
We don’t have really any examples of games that have remained so
popular for so long to really know what the future might bring. We
certainly understand that some players have just gotten their fill of
World of Warcraft, and the kind of things we would have to do to provide
really interesting new features for them risks changing World of
Warcraft into something else.
We have to be really careful not to
overhaul the game so dramatically that people who love the game fall out
of love with it. At the same time, it is a rough economy going on,
summers are always a little light, and periods between expansions are
always a little light, so we’ll see how things look after another
expansion or two.
Did he really just say what I think he said? THEN WHAT THE HELL WAS 4.0/CATACLYSM YOU JACKASS?!?
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