Quote Originally Posted by basketofseals View Post
Well there's WoW: Warlords of Draenor that managed to lose nearly 5 million subscribers in 6 months. Anyone who played then can tell you any feature outside of raiding received criminal levels of neglect.

It is definitely possible to focus too hard on the most visible minority, because within a month over 80% of of players, that is to say the players that weren't interested in even the easiest version of a raid that has a difficulty of easier than an extreme primal, had absolutely nothing to do. WoD lost nearly a million subscribers a month of a good reason.
That's the equivalent of blaming Gordias for the sub crash we witnessed in 3.1 while ignoring the only additional content released in a near eight month span were Thordan EX, Void Ark, Lord of Verminion and Diadem. The devs weren't focusing on raiding to any greater extent. They simply released content no one liked.