WotLK killed the franchise.
It became a VERY fucking easy game. Endgame content was very basic, bosses were easily countered.
That's when I stopped. Then I saw someone play cata, and seriously.... it was a piece of shit. Now MoP may have revived some players and got the count back up to 10Mill players, but it will die out soon enough.
Vanilla and Burning crusade challenged people to actually use their brains. Vanilla was just plain cruel and evil. Burning Crusade was JUUUUUUST right. I mean, raiding for weeks/months to get fully epic is satisfying, giving you a notion you accomplished something. Tower of Medivh :DDDD
WotLK just didn't know what to do. Some instances were too hard and some you could just faceroll. The endgame would be comparing it to SC.... ZERG THE BOSS! I was half epic in 3 hours after I hit lvl 85. And I only did the arena quest and dungeon(jousting shit). With my welfare epics I thought I should engage in some raiding. And man, I was dissapointed.... Children with tier 9 laughed and made fun of me. Calling me someone who lived in the era of Burning Crusade and everything changed and I knew shit. So after an hour of debate they took me to Ulduar(10 man) I think (the leviathan boss with the tank battles). I couldn't check the dps, because we were in a FUCKING TANK. I loved that, and I seriously thought it might be better then BC, but I was wrong. With my welfare epics I was #1 on dps. The second boss we just got raped and after a few tries we quit. When I confronted them, they said that I should mind my own business and shut up like the BC fossil I was. No arguement or why/what/when/how. Nothing. Children who have their epics through PvP and play PvE with it, thinking they know the game after 2/3 months. Bitch pls, this game is dead.
Cata was even more retarted.
Played all expansions in hope Blizzard didn't forget to take in their medication
I will not play MoP, because I can't be arsed to pay for a shit game that died after they started to listen to children who only wanted epics.
I miss the time when a shaman walked by and was inspiring, because he had 1/2/3/ epics. That guy was then labeled hardcore and badass. Now kids think they are badass, because they are full epic. But in fact they are stupid and obnoxious. And if you confront them about it.... they just laugh and call you a noob.
This my friend... is a shit game with a shit gaming community.