No exploratory content

[Kaurhz]

The expanded free trial and xbox release is likely going to bulk up the numbers and gives xbox users enough of a window before 7.0....this could domino well for them IF done well.

It could, but I don't think it will. Projects will have been initiated way in advance, so if it's going to domino, it'll domino far late into the expansion cycle of 7.x.

That being said - The only real grace of positivity is that if you were to look at exploratory content as a whole it actually took several iterations of Diadem: Trial of the Fury, and Anemos and Pagos before exploratory was actually more substantive than just FATE farming in another zone - Exploratory content wasn't really much substantive until much much later on in its development, outside of the EM, and BA. So there is a sliver of hope for it, really.

Whether that sliver of hope actually amounts to something is entirely different.