(10-23-2011, 09:50 AM)LochnarITB Wrote: And Blizzard doesn't care. The money is in the casuals, not the hard core raiders.
Pretty much this. If you're a hardcore raider, you probably think they've jumped the shark. IMO, Blizzard has gone back to being the old Blizzard: "Here's the cool stuff we made! Hope you want to play it!" rather than bending over backwards to accommodate everyone. They learned a hard lesson in Cata about catering to the "WoW is too easy, make it harder!" crowd, so anyone expecting *less* accessibility, or *not* going back to LK-type heroics, for example, got a rude surprise in the MoP announcement.
I'm sure they know who they're serving with the new expansion, and if you're not it, then, well, you're not it. My Alliance guild absolutely is abuzz with this announcement, but, they're pretty casual, fun people who raid some, not hardcore progression raiders. They're now much like the Terenas Lurkers were in early to mid BC, before they recruited for 25-mans.
You guys had to know this day was coming. The playerbase is so fragmented these days into factions that all want their special things, so someone *had to be* left out, imo, and Blizzard finally figured out that trying to satisfy everyone was hurting them more than helping. Good luck with Star Wars for some of you, I guess, and I'll see you in D3 or perhaps Torchlight II if you don't get D3. Star Wars doesn't interest me in the least as a franchise, but I'll buy the game for my daughter who loves Star Wars, and probably try it out a bit while waiting for D3/HotS/MoP.
--Mav