i think you just read the wrong results out of this, just because of a false or incomplete assumption. it just says „retail wow has another community than classic wow“.
and you don’t have their data.
imagine the following:
- lets say you are Blizzard.
- lets say you have data and know the type of gamers you have in your game exactly.
- lets say you realized most ppl that like social game design are in game version A.
- lets say you realized most ppl that not like social game design are in game version B.
now imagine you wanna say that next iteration of game version A should also focus on social aspects. its exactly what Blizz did. but now you realized, that this doesn’t automatically mean, what you interpreted in it. because if you have data and know about the above game version B fact, you will say exactly what they said. but you just interpreted things into it, regarding game version B.
in short: saying that Wrath should have no groupfinder, has zero effect or relation to retail. it doesn’t automatically mean „we think groupfinder is bad“ and therefore it should not be in retail too. it does mean „we think groupfinder is bad, for our classic games community“. which says NOTHING about retail in any way.
if you get what i mean.