Maybe with that income from WoW they can afford to take risks with some "innovating" games.

As long as the games that have innovation in them also have the classic action ingredients and not just being innovating and weird, im happy.

It's the publishers (ironically Vivendi is one of them) that determine which games will be made. They are the ones who write the checks to make new games and also the ones who have the final say on how creative a game will be.