They are stretched far to thin but I don't think it's unrealistic to expect more out of them. Their big solution to getting people out into the world and keeping them entertained was.... DAILY QUESTS. Think about that for a minute. How utterly uninspired. How utterly boring. How utterly bland. Either they don't have the resources to do more or I have to ask are they bored of making this game?
---------- Post added 2012-11-01 at 08:12 PM ----------
Why is that funny? It should tell you that dailies are so boring that really complaining about them is more interesting than actually doing them. Especially this incarnation of dailies which is really just an extension of the questing experience from 85-90. They offer NOTHING NEW. No they haven't gone far enough to appeal to all sides. It's easy. Take the rep requirement off the valor gear, it is not needed in any sense. Stupid people can't see the forest for the fucking trees. The only thing laughable and fucking sad is how you can't see anything passed whatever Ghostcrawler and co tell you to see and think.
---------- Post added 2012-11-01 at 08:15 PM ----------
Nobody was required to do heroic dungeons in cataclysm as well. But you all did it anyway and complained about how hard it was so much so that dungeons this time around are easier than ever before. Nobody was actually required to use the DS buff but how many of you actually turned it off? Saying people don't have to do dailies is basically saying you don't need valor gear. Well I didn't need valor gear in cataclysm either, and really you've never needed it. Progression raider or not. Nobody needs it but that isn't the point. In a game where one of the primary sources of enjoyment is character progression putting such huge rewards behind such content compels people to do that content. As soon as I stopped doing dailies I realized how little I had to do pve wise to progress my character. In fact that's what alot of this stems from. A non daily pve way to progress characters outside of the raid, which we had for years.
Fewer people have done raiding this expansion then ever before, it's another thread on these forums you can go look it up. My suspicion is their is a corellation between the slower grind for gear outside of the raid and this. I can't prove it but I suspect that because gearing up outside of the raid is such a pain and because LFR is so frustratingly dependent on RNG that people haven't got their appetites properly whetted for gear. If you don't do dailies the valor in those raids is also useless so the advantage to do them is basically just what drops off the boss. It's likely not one thing that's stopping people from raiding this time around but my suspicion is the slower grind outside of the raid isn't helping this at all. The lack of any PVE progression past 463 without dailies and without the raid is a big problem for a community that's been so used to doing just that for the past couple years. Essentially their enthusiasm for running the gear treadmill this time around is dulled because it's just so slow and it's just such a grind.