But filler content doesn't work. Vanilla didn't have this problem because if you wanted to do Naxx, that's fine but first you need gear. In WoD this was a easy solution, you just get PvP gear. Bam, just made most of the content in the game pointless. The only reason I did LFR and Dungeons was due to Legendary Ring. That and farming Valor with Mythic dungeons.
In Vanilla you could go about it two ways. Get dungeon Tier and do MC -> BWL -> AQ40 -> and eventually you can do Naxx. Or do ZQ and AQ20 and hopefully you'll get lucky on loot drops, and maybe you can skip MC. Maybe. You have to experience all the content, and if you're a guild looking to gear up players for raids, it doesn't stop once you're geared.
I didn't join WoD until after patch 6.2. I knew the expansion was gonna be fail back in MoP. I didn't miss anything special. There's no world events like AQ40. The raids don't exactly provide any lore, at least nothing I find interesting. I got to skip running around a ground mount and went straight to flying. I don't raid with my guild, despite they're 12/13 or something. I geared up fully in Heroic gear but pugging. There's no value in doing Mythic raids, other than saying you've done Mythic. But if you did Naxx, people will be amazed. The amount of effort that's needed to down Kel'Thuzard is unbelievable.
Dailies aren't content. Dungeons and raids are content. Nobody I know is complaining about the lack of dailies. Most people today don't care cause they just ignore them anyway. There's so much of it in the game that the player becomes desensitized to it.A LOT of people have commented that they miss dailies. Or that they never hated them in the first place (these would be the ones who completed them at thier own pace I assume). The backlash over the communities reaction to the large amount of content at the start of MoP lead the developers to put LESS content in their next game, I would have thought that correlation was a plain as the sun in the sky.
And Normal raids aren't normal. Blizzard just calls it that so people don't feel stupid because all they can clear is normal content. But Blizzard expects players to run through normal, Heroic, and Mythic for no good reason. For most players LFR is enough to say they cleared it. Even though they didn't come close to the experience. Blizzard is just enabling players to quit the game.
In MoP it was a problem, cause professions didn't get to the stuff worth a damn until you got revered with Lotus or something. And a profession exists to farm gold, and it can't do that job well unless you have the pattern that is sold but requires being revered.And to clarify, it wasn't the people who played too much. It was the ones ho played too much then bitched about being "forced" (!!) into doing too much stuff. Like "Your skinner box is TOO GOOD".
WoD this is less of a problem because professions don't matter. But I still had to rep grind for flying. By grind, I mean doing daily's. And yes, I hated doing this very much. I liked WOTLK version of using tabards while doing dungeons. It was quicker.
It takes 18hrs? Then it's a daily. Also, 18hrs for a Garrison mission? What were you think Blizz? Oh sorry, the $15 is what you're thinking.
I did use the Garrison... daily, because it paid for my subscription. If it wasn't for the gold missions, I would have left it to rot.