More Horizontal Progression please

[Fendred]

No, this is the source of most of the ire from Cataclysm:

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/205...hard-1-11-2011

I totally agree with you that it is a reason for the game's decline. It's just there were other reasons as well. The leveling experience in Cataclysm was completely messed up: The careful balance between the number of quests in the zones and the XP gained from them didn't match up right. It was so easy to gain levels that important quest chains would be greyed out (no exp) before they could be completed. I didn't even do any dungeons. It happened from just doing quests!

Many of those quests were needed to unlock other quest hubs to continue progression, so it became incredibly messy to level as a new character. A lot of new players just gave up because it was too hard to level. That cut off their replacement players where the thing you are mentioning caused the loss of their end game players.