Another lost level 60

[Alarick]

If you have the casual gameplay at 60 as rewarding as the hardcore gaming, you make the hardcore side useless.  Blizzard can never make both sides happy at 60, so it makes business sense to make the side that's more likely to stay happy.
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I understand that casual content shouldn't be as rewarding, but I feel like there's nothing I can reasonably do that will progress my character at all.

I still wonder what the real answer to the typical question I see "casual" gamers ask of hardcore gamers. If I invest 100 hours over the course of 4 months, why should I not have similar rewards to those people that invest 100 hours in 3-4 weeks?

I wanted to think I could progress my character, which in terms of this games means new, more powerful items. With only a couple hours at a time to play, there's really only one instance to do, and I don't see myself running one instance that many times. Even if I did, the loot tables are not tremendously generous to begin with.

I don't see how having a bit of casual content every two or so patches would be a bad thing. Hardcore gamers would still be able to do it, and faster for that matter, and casual gamers would get something to do.

I say people who come in, expect a few months of play time, get to 60, then leave are getting exactly what they want. Blizzard is targetting casual gamers to play the game, but they won't keep footing the bill month after month.
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I wasn't one of the people that expected to play only for a few months simply getting to 60. I did, however, expect to have as much to do at 60 as beforehand, and that's what is not the case. What I meant by my comment about Blizzard needing to change their focus in advertising the game was simply this. The game probably would hold a lot of casual gamers longer than 60 levels if there were things to do in that short time commitment these players have.

I feel a lot of the people that are leaving because of the lack of casual content didn't
come in with the attitude of getting to 60 then moving on. The extreme change in the style of play at level 60 is what I was not prepared for, in reality, and it is the biggest reason for leaving.

Perhaps it's just me trying to find something that could be done for me to start playing again come fall. I just don't see it happening, sadly. There's alot that would need to be done, and I've seen little reason to believe Blizzard will do it, even with the little speach they give when I cancelled citing lack of "solo" content.