We all have different amounts of time for entertainment. Some of us can only invest one or two hours of our days to play video games. Others can invest significantly more. Whatever your playtime is, the fact is that you can only do one thing at a time. Actually, one of the first things they taught us in media studies is that it's all about fighting for a piece of consumers leisure time. The invention of television is often blamed for ruining the popularity of movie theaters for this same reason.
Since May 15th, WoW players are dealing with the same problems the movie fans had to confront back in the 50's. We are all investing more of our time to play Diablo 3, which means WoW is being pushed aside. Global WoW economy dropped in size by approx. 30% according to the WoWuction.com numbers.
In my last post I promised to explain how Diablo 3 helped me make more gold than usual. While this idea might seem contradictory to what you just read, believe me, it is possible.