I think the games is as alive or dead as you wanna be. For getting active in a social guild, doing silly things andseting new goals for myself ingame kept the game feelig fresh for me. I'm currently learning a new role (tanking) and putting other things on the backburner, like pvp. I do sometimes feel a bit of doomerism about the future of the game but as long as I'm still having fun with the people around me I'm good.