Pre-WoD the raiding scene were dominated by 10 man guilds. 25 man raids were dissapearing little by little as they were way harder to organize and there were no reward for doing them instead of 10. To addrees this, Blizzard marged 10 and 25 in mythic 20. This movement helped lots of 25 man guild to improve and it also helped improve raids encounters, PvE race and the quality of the content as they were not worried about balancing 10 and 25.
But, at what cost? I mean 0,5% top guilds are really happy about this new scene but what about the average raiders? All those little communities of friends who raided to have fun in very relaxing enviroment or those groups very reduced in a very reduced raid time who wanted to push really hardcore. You could say: "hc is for them and its actually flexible!!!" but no. If you see realms, LOTS of guilds has dissappear and the number of actual "Mythic raiders" has descreased. There were lots of guilds that consistently cleared 5-6 bosses of mythic without having to invest that much time organizing a 25 man roster or having to lost their friendly enviroment. This is my case, I'm not interesting in playing anymore because I dont want to worry about organizing a 24-25 man roster and if I decide to stay in 10, I only have hc content.
I don't know if it is a real cause of sub lost for Blizzard. But seeing the numbers and the ecosystem of realms, I think 20 mythic has damaged it more than helped.
I open this topic to know whats your opinion mates. Do you think that 20 man has had more negative of possitive effects? What has been your experience?
Disscus! :-)