"A: "You'll see more difficult encounters as you go on. We won't get to the level of difficulty of SWP.""

This is stupid. People are already revolting that the 5man and heroic 5man content is so easy that a group of retarded monkeys bashing their head at the keyboard could complete them. If same trend continues to raids, WOTLK will be the most epic failure in the history of failures.

MMOs have ZERO point if there is zero challenge. Things you _can't_ do, until you do the time (gear up, practice). SWP was the best instance since Naxx40 because it required actual skill. SWP was the first instance where we couldn't just pick random_people from our large guild roster and "try them out" - even just 2-3 sub-performing people would turn the raid into a wipe-fest. So we trained the people in Hyjal/BT that is much more forgiving.

If WOTLK has no challenging raid content, hardcore raiders will raise holy hell 0.0005 seconds after all the available content has been smashed through. It doesn't matter if it's the top 1% - the next 2-5% will show up to the same point a few weeks later, and very soon the negative publicity will be something epic to watch.

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