4th Edition D&D is pretty much pandering to the WoW crowd, so I was surprised you didn't make that comparison. I just started playing with a 4E group in Oakland and it's pretty strange to me how the rules feel like a video game. Healing surges? Goddamn, I had to scrounge draughts of potions of extra healing for years, and now I can get 1/4 of my HP back as a standard action? This ain't no Gygaxian age anymore...