Quote Originally Posted by Edax View Post
Cataclysm caused a lot of players to check out of WoW. I've seen Dragon Ball Super try it and it turned into a mess. I saw the TV show Fringe try it and that became a huge mess. And that new Star Trek show tried that out and it turned into a mess. I'm worried that FFXIV is going down this route too. Once whole dimensions are at stake, it's hard to scale down the series before it burns itself out from being too big.
Your problem is that Cataclysm didn't bring an alternate reality, it straight up changed the game world.

But as others stated, WoW didn't invent alternate timelines/worlds. Hell I think that was a plot point in FFXI.

At best this is WoW fear mongering. At worst, it's bad WoW fear-mongering.