>pride the entire game on how open-ended endgame content is and how it's not just hardcore raiding (housing, gold saucer, crafting/gathering, etc)
>shb comes, wow exodus
>they all want raidslop
>start giving them more raidslop
>everyone who liked the previous version of the game left with nothing to do
>game slowly begins to die
>decide you're going to make a "it all leads to this" finale expansion
>kill tons of plot threads and leave little room for speculation
>all story enjoyers leave as they do some ff4 memberberry slop nobody cares about
>don't add casual content
>casuals begin to check out
>suddenly you need to tease new expansion
>only have a x.x5 patch to do so LOL
>dt comes along, its meh
>lose players
>start going all in on raid shit
>lose more players
>oh shit
>here's content a ton of casuals were waiting for (occult crescent)
>forked tower is literally first floor savage level raidslop (you will need party finder (not added until a patch later) and there's body checks)
>lose more players
>announce deep dungeon
>ok finally something casuals can enjoy
>it's actually casual
>there's even a difficulty setting on the end boss
>have hope, maybe it's not all bad
>ffwd today
>yeah ummm we might have less content overall
I hate to say it but WoWfags won. They literally invaded and poisoned our game. It's fucking over.