shadowfix says:

I'll be thoroughly surprised if RoM actually makes it to the end of 2010. In a time of relative drought it is quite easy to attact large numbers of players to a F2P game with the quality RoM seems to have at first sight.
Unfortunately, when you take a closer look, the game has too many pitfalls to become a major player. The gameplay is cluttered with inconsistencies. There is hardly any balance between the classes, and there is no balance between non-paying and paying players. Of course the latter should receive some advantage, but as a frequent diamond buyer myself RoM management never lived up to their promise that “buying itemshop items is aimed at convinience, not at creating overpowered gear”. Almost a year after CB started, and 3 months after release we can conclude…well… it was a big fat lie.
The game hardly offers any exiting content in the endgame. It is way too easy, it just takes time. There are no goals to achieve for 'modded out' characters, and the PvP is a travesty. By far the worst implementation of a player vs player system I have ever seen in an MMORPG that is to be considered as serious.
Add to that an opportunistic and short-term focused management and the idea is pretty clear. Some hardcore fanboys will probably remain, but with Aion, Guild Wars II, Diablo III, Star Wars: The Old Republic, FF XIV, Huxley and two (…yes two) MMORPG's in development by Blizzard, most of them likely to be released within the next one-and-a-half years, RoM will be gone before you can say: releasedate 2010.