I guess the era of "wowkiller" is over!
WoW is going to grow old and die one day. It's already starting to smell a bit mothball-like.
Possibly but people still say the same about UO. WoW and UO are the only 2 games that I go back and forth to.
I think it will be interesting to see what happens with Shards. I am also curious about how much of the current UO player base they are going after. They are using the god mode (or whatever it is called) view like UO as opposed to the standard 3D view like WoW, Rift, SWTOR etc.