| For any MMO, I think you can make a pretty good judgement on it by listing the reasons to play vs. the reasons not to play. It looks like SOE's strategy with Vanguard is to work on removing the reasons not to play. It's a pretty good strategy, since the reasons not to play Vanguard are legion (performance, bugs, levelling curve, empty servers, etc.).
It will be interesting to see what happens from here. The existing subscriber base is so small as to be irrelevant. I'm sure more people quit WoW every month than subscribe to Vanguard, probably by a factor of two or three. So if they want to target ex-WoW players, they won't mind alienating all existing subscribers if they figure they can capture 15-20% of disgruntled ex-WoW subscribers. | 