Originally Posted by
Vespian
You have no proof to claim that the raiding community was small. It's utter bullshit you're sprouting. The only statistics you can throw at me are the ones Blizzard gave you and those only reflect cleared content margins. They have nothing to do with how many people raid or should be considered raiders. In the old days, WoW endgame was about raiding. You can not dispute that. There were no achievements, no dailies, no gear vendors for points.
There was outdoor pvp the first 4 months, when it still meant something, but started to crash the server(s), so they were forced to introduce battle grounds and for a full year or two, PvP was about points that gave you a rank. So it was either PvP or Raiding and most did both, because there was no resilience!
So if you really want to argue about how servers were built up, it's more in the region of 20% casual, 30% raiding, 30% PvP and 20% both, but never, ever near the fictive assumptions you have about how it used to be. If the classic raiders, like me were still feeling challenged by content (Which I personally don't due to gear inflation, Yes, I like to show off if I worked hard for something) the current content would have a 75% clear ratio of the total population. But we just don't care anymore.
Once more, making content easier to access does not mean that you can say "See, now more people raid". It's bullshit.
Look, if you don't get it, just don't comment.