Two quick things I wanted to add in regards to the World of Warcraft bit. One is the disclaimer that, as you all know, WoW is in early beta. They have another five months plus of beta to go, therefore anything I ramble on about can be changed.

Second things is something Xplorwhatthehellever pointed out to me on the boards. It's about the 20% of accounts playing at one time number. I think that number is probably incorrect now, I heard it a long time ago, though I suppose the interesting part of that number was not that the tech couldn't handle more, but that you only ever had around 20% of players playing at any given time, so that's what you could predict for. Who knows, could be wildly off, maybe popular games see averages of 50% of players on at peak times. Beats me.