Why do I get the feeling HC is going to fizzle out faster than SOM?

[Mootwo-earthfury]

@Clayfighter-grobbulus

Which leads me to believe that SOM1 was nothing more than a test round to see how the player base feels about changes.

Oh agreed about the testing ground for changes although I don’t think that was the only reason it came out.

@Clayfighter-grobbulus

TBC was in the spot light, and it was my first time revisiting it since original TBC, so that had my attention more than another vanilla go-round. Vanilla just ended, so having another vanilla right off the bat was a hard sell vs new TBC

Most of the people who really were enjoying TBCC didn’t even start playing SOM. I raid-logged TBCC the whole time I played SoM. After I quit SOM I didn’t go back to doing much more in TBCC than raid-logging still because I didn’t feel like spending more time playing it.

Here is my list of the problems with (P1) SOM from an old post:

@Mootwo-earthfury

• Released too close to the end of “Vanilla” Classic
• Too many servers at launch
• PVP system put out right at launch - and that PVP gear being the very best for raiding which caused people do “no life”
• The PVP drama was quite intense, I find that this makes the game more fun/memorable but it turned some people off.
• Suspensions for bad chat/language of 8 days from people who were PVP ranking which with the way that works costs even more time
• Difficulty gold farming due to nerfs of common gold farms (like we are seeing today)
• Lots of consume grinding or needing to buy due to the buffs to the boss health/changes of raid encounters making them longer, often needing 12 healers with mana pots on cooldown and resistance pots not needed in the original.
• Gold buying due to the above issues mentioned and then a large 14-day suspension wave making it so that groups could not raid for awhile because so many raiders were missing.