Quote Originally Posted by Yeastyloins View Post
That's not it, meters have been since Vanilla and the game continued to grow all the way into Wrath.
Meters were not common for the majority of players until Wrath, Hells unless you were raiding, there was no reason to add many of the addons that are considered essential to raiding, and frankly most peoples computers up until they upped the system requirements for the 1st time in MoP couldn't handle more than 1 addon. I remember being happy I could run the Full DBM at all times, when many people had to pick and choose what consent DBM covered, because they couldn't run more than a handful of Dungeons and Raids at the same time. Remember Addons sit in the Active memory of your computer, and the old min requirements barely could handle just WOW and a few required Systems.

https://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/09/wo...t-in-10-years/


Blizzard was hesitant to update the Requirements with WOD, but as they had to upgrade the Graphics they had to up the min requirements. Even now, the current min still can't handle a lot of addons.