In other words, the beginning of the end is here (Score 0)

I find a number of things interesting here. First of all, more of the same large raid rewards from Blizzard. In other words, all that is wrong with WoW to begin with, they will magnify. Secondly, the comments on Slashdot which make the most sense to me, i.e., those in the least bit critical of Blizzard, are typically ranked (by whatever arcane ranking system Slashdot uses, obviously a biased one) around a 2, while comments that add more "hype" to the WoW machine, fawning over the new phat loot in 1337speek, are typically given a 5. This is much like a White House press release, where the untrustworthy news sources (Fox News, for example) simply rehashes verbatim the talking points of the administration. In this case, it's an article in the "whoop-de-do" NY Times written by, yeah, you guessed it, a hardcore uber-raider. Well...sure to expect balance there...not. He's basically just holding up the lead developer (bandit-in-thief) and giving him a podium from which to preach. Balance is about the one thing that WoW has never had, and it's only going to get worse.