The Final Fantasy Online box that get regularly hurled at Mike is an example.   If Guild Wars 2 doesn’t live up to its promises, it’s likely that box will be getting thrown next.

This is not a universal trait in the MMO community.  There are still people out there clinging to the notion that horrid games like Auto Assault and Tabula Rasa were good games when history has already written them down as undeniable failures.     

Gamebreaker seems like they really do judge games, regardless of how enthused they might be at the early potential.  

Also, they need to find an optimal disparity between earning something with gameplay and earning it with cash, because though the saying says “time is money,” people are impatient, and so generally time is valued more. This means that a selfish player with more throw-away money could at least be at that advantage over another less fortunate player, regardless of whether or not he has the time to invest into getting the same rewards. Of course, this does not come without another cost: say a player can buy consumable XP buffs, health buffs, attack/defense buffs, etc. Of course he will level up faster and with less effort than someone without those benefits, but despite having an “experience boost,” they will in fact be missing out on the real experience, not gaining valuable improvements to their skill, and ultimately failing to learn how to play the game more effectively. Thus is always the caveat for the easy way out.

I think ANet can handle it just fine, they always do.