Quote Originally Posted by Murugan View Post
I'm going to go out on a limb and say you aren't a professional video game industry analyst, and if you are then I am truly sorry for you and your unfortunate choice of career. I don't think they need to make the game WoW-casual exclusive in order to have enough money to develop a game I would enjoy.

Not to mention if they don't develop content that I can enjoy=I'm not playing it=I don't care.
If they exclusively develop content you enjoy, you won't be playing that either, simply because there's not enough people like that around to support the game.

Hardcore players are a dying breed. The people who used to play hardcore have (mostly) grown up and now have jobs, kids, and/or sex to worry about, not logging in 3 a.m. every night for a few hours for a chance to slay a rare monster. And kids have grown up with casual games like WoW and simply can't be convinced to take a step back from that.

You're going to have accept that at best hardcore players will have to co-exist with casual ones and not everything is going to be as hard as you like it to be. There's just no market for big name hardcore MMOs anymore. The mainstream wants casual play.