Quote Originally Posted by 'Dominian',index.php?page=Thread&postID=107505#pos t107505
And thats exactly the reason why wow have gone big is because you can get gear without actually have ANY clue at all, hell wtf you can get gear by afking wich most seems to do anyway.
/agree

Playing to the lowest common denominator (meaning a larger fan base) is the ultimate goal. Other games can try to reinvent the wheel that Blizzard has perfected and I think it'll be years before anyone will actually do it. With WoW, you don't have to be good, or smart, or have fantastic skills to have fun and get good gear, which is all most people want anyway. Blizzard figured that out a long time ago with Diablo 2.

I also agree that with the failure of AOC (and from what listening to the prognosticators say, WO will fail as well), Blizzard has no real incentive to make WOTLK the best it could possibly be. I think it'll be good, but I'm not sure about it being great. How can something get better if there isn't the forceful push of real competition?