Naxxramas

[MongoJerry]

I think Blizzard, or at least key designers, simply thought everyone would want to move on to raiding, that everyone who finished with Scholo would go to MC as a matter of course. To me releasing five instances in a row for one playstyle without catering to any others seems shortsighted.
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I think that you're missing one piece, which is that the 20-man dungeons are really catered to a group that's halfway between the hardcore raiders and the purely casual player. Blizzard developer comments prior to the release of ZG suggested that they recognized the popularity of UBRS raids and recognized that there was room for dungeons in between UBRS and MC/BWL. Obviously, no, if you are a pure casual player who only logs on for a few hours a week, then ZG will be out of reach. However, if you play more than a few hours a week, it is reasonable that one could get in a semi-casual guild that meets a couple times a week to take on the 20-man dungeons.

I can tell you from the point of view a hardcore raider that ZG and AQ-20 are definitely not directed at me or my guildmates. Sure, some of us run them for a few scraps of loot that might be helpful for PvP or for some spellbooks, but otherwise, none of the loot or the difficulty of the bosses are really geared toward my guildmates.

On the other hand, for a couple of months, I rerolled on Twisting Nether, an RP server, with a few friends, and as our guild was building up there, we weren't big enough or organized enough to go to MC, yet. But, we could field 20-man raids a few times a week, so in our blue and green gear, we took on Zul'Gurub and the 20-man Silithus bosses to build up our gear. They were absolutely perfect for that level of gear and (lack of) organization.

So, yes, while there hasn't been a lot of content added for the purely casual player and while I agree that this is a structural problem in the game, it isn't fair to say that they've added four instances in a row to support one group of players. In truth, they've only added two instances, BWL and AQ40, to support hardcore raiders. ZG and AQ20 were introduced to help a group of people that had no content for them in the game at all -- people who wanted to play the game more than a few hours a week but couldn't play enough to get in hardcore raiding guilds. As far as Naxxramas goes, who knows what's going to be in it? We know that it will have more content for hardcore raiders, but there are indications that there will be some content for other players as well. We'll have to wait and see.