Assuming I’m right that a majority of players haven’t made it past 59th, this makes me think they probably won’t. But, they did like the game well enough to play up to that point. So if you want those players to continue to subscribe, give them more of what they liked about the game. More races/classes, more lowbie content, fixing of lower level things like blacksmithing (so useless after 20th…all the way until 60th I hear).

WoW is a lot like Diablo 2. You hack and slash, you have skills and build your character in different ways. But when the Diablo 2 expansion was released, did it just cater to people with higher level characters? Or did it add classes and lands and let you start all the way over from the beginning? That’s what I feel the expansions to WoW are missing. And because of that, WoW will be missing me too. To be fair, I don’t think they will care much as they swim in their pool of money. But that won’t stop me from being grumpy about it! :)

Regardless, I think blizzard is learning that they need to skew instances to be more casual friendly and are taking steps in that direction, with the removal of tk and ssc attunements and a post karz level zone.