I don't agree. The type of game you create attracts a certain kind of player. WoW has always focused on gear/raiding/being elite. Even from back before Molten Core there were elements of the game that were extremely competitive and un-sociable towards ungeared and new players.
Instead of fostering community building and inclusion the game went the way of catering to the elitists and raiders etc. The developers chose which player set they wanted. The hardcore no-life people that have literal years of game time in WoW.
TOR doesn't have to go this route, they can choose which players they respond to and which communities they want to foster within their game. We'll see how they choose, but they don't need to follow WoW's lead.
No, he's right about WoW. I've played wow since closed beta and I did the whole high end raiding scene, my guild at the time finished everything from tier 1 through sunwell top 20 US (hint: the guild was on korgath and has since debanded.)
Anyway, the whole 16 year old basement dwelling min maxer has gotten ridiculous. You have to have 20 addons just to raid in a high end guild now, and you can get an addon called powerauras that takes a dump on your UI and covers your screen with nonsense when you're about to make a mistake or get a bad debuff. Then there's stuff like DBM. And god forbid you make a mistake or your raid leader will nerd rage. These types of idiots have gotten way worse in WoW in recent years, not to mention you have to get good combat logs on worldoflogs just to be successful these days it seems like.
Because of this I feel like raiding is a waste of time, you know well before the instance comes out what all the bosses will do and you have addons like dbm and power auras that basically hold your hand through the content. And then there's the whole rehash an instance 20 times, such as ZG/ZA. How many times do I have to kill onyxia again?
In rift, its completely different. There's no reliance on addons, I feel genuinely surprised when I encounter new content, And I haven't really run into any basement dwelling douchebags yet. The community seems completely different, and the game is better (IMO) than WoW by far. Anyway, I hope SWTOR has a community like rift - acting like adults and not spouting racial slurs over game related achievements.