hi there..
ive been tryin to read the whole thread.. kinda hard.. yes there are too many mmo's out there.
I have tried COH ,AoC,CO, Warhammer, SWG,DDO,Vanguard, EQ2, Lotro, free realms, and WoW.
I still play WoW, but as you can see ive tried alot of games - a few stick out for me but ya know I could say alot about any of them i played all and enjoyed something about all of them. im now on my bored of wow downturn ( yup it happens every year for me) so i come back to check others.
now about COH if memory serves its around same age as wow and still going, yes it may not have the wow numbers but different players play these games.
anyways super hero MMO's are difefrent Ive tried the new CO.. graphics was awesome but i didnt like the game as much, COH i havent played much but liked what i did, still waiting for DCUO to decide which superhero MMO is it going to be. I will say what i read about COH updates and such seem darn good.
I'd say CoH is the WoW of super hero mmo's it been here and still is
btw the only people tp dethrown WoW is blizzard itself it has way too much lore and story from its warcraft games,