Quote Originally Posted by Velhart View Post
Actually it was pretty well received. It was end game raids and lack of interesting updates that Cataclysm is met to mediocre reviews. The fact the world got revamped from Deathwing blowing up was awesome. It felt very fresh. I am not saying FFXIV should do it (actually they did...1.0) but this was one of the better aspects of Cataclysm.
That's kind of the point. Dev time was sacrificed for that revamp. It was to illustrate that it didn't come cheap and it affected the overall perception of the expansion.
The 'blowing up' was fun until the novelty wore off and you had to swear at the chasm in the barrens or swim through 1k needles. People didn't stick with that expansion as they did prior.
While i agree that 1.0 is similar to Cataclysm, the idea here is that cataclysm was an interim expansion, intended to continue the game, not reset it. Intent, perception and re-evaluation do play a role here.