Originally Posted by
Ferocity
Except for 1 moment. WoW was never hardcore except for guild/raid leaders. In fact it was advertised as game mostly aimed at "casuals". Right when the phone was EverQuest, mother of WoW, which was quite hardcore, but it was also far from popular.
And in neither game raids had such ridiculous overload on mechanics and arcade requirements than in WoW now, EverQuest was simply completely unforgiving to wipes. Used to wipe 100 times on progression in WoW? Great - in EQ it would mean getting 10 levels back, which would mean 10 days of group grind of low level mobs. Wasted your corpse(s)? Well, sucks to be you, you are to be geared from point zero.