Originally Posted by
Osmeric
You are giving one of the common defensive rationalizations of rampant hardcore entitlement you were expressing. It's just self-serving BS, though.
If casual players really were more likely to quit (and the retention data we have in WoD doesn't show the high end raiders being much, if any, more likely to stick around), then that would mean most ex-players are casual, even more so than those currently playing. If so, Blizzard, if they want to bring back ex-players, needs to go casual. Put another way: if raiders really are super-loyal, Blizzard can and should exploit that by depriving them right up to the limit of what that loyalty will tolerate, since they are "cheap dates".