I assembled some guidelines for the WoW developers for their future work.
Let's start:
1.) Most of the players which play the game are no mythic raiders and will never become such
2.) Most of the players which play the game are no rated PVP players and will never become such
3.) Most of the players give a shit about competetive gameplay
4.) Only a small niche amount of players ever watched eSports.
5.) Balance does not matter in a RPG
6.) Streamers like Asmongold and their followers who want to make WoW hardcore are a small but loud minority
7.) Most of the players do not play high key mythic dungeons
8.) Most of the players are not in organized raiding or PVP guilds
9.) Most of the players give a shit about the question which pro-gamer group won the Arena finals
10.) Gaming is thought to be fun and not to be about chores. Sending the same turtles into the water every day is not fun.
11.) The level of engagement is more interesting than the reward
12.) People who have to play in groups or either they would not get the best rewards and who are introverts play against their nature and become toxic at some point
13.) World of Warcraft destroyed the relationship of thousands of couples
14.) World of Warcraft is addictive, and made people unemployed. Less today, as the game allows anyone to progress somehow without the need to give up real life. Yet, that is still existent at high endgame level.
15.) Games are something you do in your sparetime, after work, and for most of us nothing that should replace real life
16.) The skinner box effect creates even more addicts. The question is why Blizzard utilizes it that massively?
17.) The blood of the game are not 13 hours playing addicts, but the people who play 3 hours every 2 days doing some content. That is who the game should cater to. Entirely.
18.) Noone who plays LFR to see the content wants a challenge in LFR or even wipe there.
19.) People who play solo want to play solo, and not in matchmade groups.
20.) MMORPG does not mean "Massive enforced organized Group role playing game".
Thats all for now. Probably i add more later.
Edit: To make this a discussion, what do you guys think about those tips? What are your tips for the developers?