Is World of Warcraft on the decline? Blizzard forum member Lenkari seems to think so, and has recently expressed that thought on Blizzard's forums. The reason: the dwindling number of World of Warcraft players.

Understandably, Lenkari's comment elicited mixed responses from the other members of Blizzard's forums. Some WoW players concurred, citing the lack of new servers and the character transfers as evidence. Others disagreed, pointing back to the sales charts and saying that claims of WoW's "decline" have been circulating for a while now. 

Blizzard blue poster Drysc offered an alternative perspective on the topic:

Personally, I would say probably not for a while. At least not at as long as we continue to hit what looks to me like new concurrency records, and probably sometime after one of our largest population concerns ceases to be that many realms just have too many people on them.

Not that I need to justify it, just throwing in my own observations, but many people have limited views and thus incorrect perceptions on the status of player base size. The fact that we haven't opened new realms continues to be, I would guess, the main contributor.

There are of course also realms which would be considered low population in comparison, but aside from literally a handful of realms (I could count them on one hand), every other realm has a population that would have been considered high to overpopulated before the launch of Burning Crusade.