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You'd think they would have learned by now that it just won't work. Only by doing something different will they stand out from the crowd, which is how Guild Wars manages to keep a fairly steady, reasonably large subscriber base.
I also think that the greatest audience for games with a strong social component tend to be going toward the social network/Flash/HTML5 titles more than the MMOs these days, especially given the rise of Zygna and Facebook games as well as mobile games...
Traditional MMOs are in for a rough ride in the near future. Unlike the big blockbuster single-player titles, games with strong social aspects attract quite a few more female players... I know that I am something of an anomaly with my general distaste for multiplayer-centric titles when all of my female friends are logging hours and hours and hours playing Cityville and whatever other crap Zygna has put out recently.
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