Night Elves announced in WoW

[Mithrandir]

PvP SERVERS? Fine. But if you don't give me a place to play in peace, I'll take my business elsewhere.

PvE-centric MMOs are perhaps some of the most boring, dull, and pointless game types in existence. There's a reason that every single successful post-EQ MMO has had PvP (or RvR or GvG or whatever you want to call it) as at least one of its central themes. Dark Age of Camelot, Shadowbane, and Planetside are all having good success. AC2, on the other hand, is utterly faltering and doing horrible financially... and is PvE-centric.

That's not just a coincidence.

Gamers got tired of the old whack-a-mole game after UO and EQ. Gamers must be new and intuitive, while working in some form of mass PvP combat, to survive in this incredibly harsh MMO market. If WoW is going to prosper, Blizz is going to have to include a form of PvP better than those lame dueling arenas.

Edit: Forget to mention... Dark Elves? GAH! Can everyone please just put down their R.A. Salvatore 'Super Fan' t-shirts and step away from their little flags that have 'Catti-Bri is hot! Sexxorz me!' written on them?

Drizzt is not real.

Can more companies please be braver and get away from the common l33t races? Dark Elves. Dwarves. And so on. This standard fantasy-fare, while the use of which is understandable, is truly getting annoying. Don't any of these developers have a single original brain cell?

If there's one thing I can applaud Wolfpack for, it's putting a ton of different, original, and interesting races into the game. Kobolds, Trolls, and Firbolg were fun in DAoC. Elves (Dark or otherwise), Dwarves, and Humans are boooorrring.

Even the Tolkien-wannabes at WotC can come up with the occasional intriguing new race or creature. These MMO developers can't?