Naxxramas

[Raelynn]

I don't agree with your premise - compared to raiding, "other content" was not lacking. It's only with the release of AQ only one patch ago that raiding became even remotely as well-supported as smaller instances. The alternative to releasing AQ would have been to give ZG-style guilds no where to move on to, and to give BWL-farming guilds a couple more months of doing nothing and being extremely bored.

I know far more people who had never 5-manned Scholomance or Stratholme as of 1.10 than people who had never done a raid instance. To add yet another five-person dungeon would have been silly, even assuming that Blizzard could find some magical way to innovate a completely new experience that wasn't done to death in the other 5 dungeons.

If the last 90% of patch content was geared towards raiding, that's only because the first 99% of game development was geared towards soloing and small groups.
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The problem to me is not "how much" it's "how long". The raiding wasn't in the game from the start because, of course, the 1-59 game was focused on, and at that level they added the 5-man dungeons. I don't have a problem that raid instances are released, I have a problem that there were going to be 3 raid instances released (in addition to the 6 world raid bosses) coming in between any significant 5-man end-game content. In addition, the solo/5-man stuff they add seems like a bandaid; a half-thought out premise to try and satisfy that group and lower complaints. (Nothing like seeing them say "We realize that we haven't done much for 5-man groups, so we're delaying Naxx and putting in dungeon 2 set). I wouldn't have had quite as much of a problem with the dungeon 2 quests even if they had some variance across classes, but everything's the exact same.

All in all, when you get to a year between major updates for a certain playerbase, people tend to get upset.