Originally Posted by
SirCowdog
The extreme is created by Blizzard by spending too many resources, and revolving the entire game around raiding for too long. You can see the results in the last few expansions: Other areas of the game suffer, both by being underdeveloped, and by Blizzard's lack of practice at doing anything good besides raiding.
So either Blizzard needs to focus on what they're good at(raiding) and make the entire game about that again, or they need to cut raiding and start spending a LOT of time practicing at making other areas of the game decent. They've got the largest MMO dev team on the planet, and probably the largest budget too. And yet somehow they can't manage to juggle everything, even with such advantages.