World of Warcraft PVP Honor System

There have been multiple posts aobut predicting the demise of World of Warcraft. It is easy to do this. The nubmers are awesome right now so if they decline at all you get to say that you were brilliant if they go down at all. If you are just making posts about how great the game is then you are dismissed as just a fanboy... and no one wants that.

So what do I have to say... I think the PVP honor system may be the chink in the armor.

Since november I have been playing a RPG. I have been enjoying the days wasted leveling my character and running around the world they have built. Now I am suddenly a footsoldier in a RTS.

So what is wrong with that? Nothing, it is pretty much what they told us would be happening. So what could possibly be wrong? If you are going to earn any rank at all you will have to spend hours raiding opposing locations. The only people who will have time for this are the same hardcore players that play every other MMORPG and have run people like me off in the past.

I am by no means predicting the demise of the game, but I am concerned that the game will take a turn in a direction I have no interest in.

Battlegrounds are greatly delayed. New content delivery that was supposed to be monthly has only happened once or twice depending on how you count the PVP honor system.

The guys at Blizzard have done an amazing job overcoming infrastructure problems and poor database design. I am very still very happy. If there is one thing to worry about in my opinion it is that RPG players like me will lose interest and just stop playing and paying.