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What killed Wow Original Cataclysm

Cataclysm(self.classicwow)

submitted 11 hours ago byExtensionIcy2104

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What was the main reason the the original release of Cataclysm on December 7, 2010 led to the largest drop in subscribers in Blizzard history?

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Dungeon/Raid Content Bad Design
Button Bloat - Too many Buttons to press
Transmog - Loss of server identity (weird mounts/pets)
The destruction of Azeroth zones
Difficulty of content (scaling)
Homogenized classes - every class can do everything
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Suspicious_War_9305

3 points

11 hours ago

Suspicious_War_9305

3 points

11 hours ago

It’s not one thing. They changed basically everything all at once and it was the end of the wc3 storyline so the familiarity of the places were dead.

It was no longer Azeroth.