You can simply download the first release , patch a bit around the version handshake and verify for yourself that this isn ' t true . I dunno why someone was saying that , but it ' s not true . <| sep |> I disagree entirely , honestly . They didn ' t handle it perfectly , surely , and they could ' ve made more . But there is no way in living hell that they would have sustained the massive playerbase it caught in the beginning . It had absolutely unprecedented amounts of players who had never played a damn game before and never would have stuck it out in the long run no matter what . Most of the people that are talking about these points are somewhat core gamers on here , and that ' s where they stand to lose people . Granted , the game is still going pretty strong , but you ' re right it could be a lot stronger . But they ' re not throwing away billions in the sense that it could still be as popular as it was at launch .