The Blizzard developers disagree with you. Your attitude is basically: "Only the top X% of players should be able to encounter the end boss in the game." Which was the case for all pre-WotLK WoW. But Blizzard has decided to increase X and make the game more accessible to casual players.
Of course, it's all about the specific numbers for X. In the original WoW, much less than 1% of the players had downed any boss in Naxx. In TBC, less than 3% had downed the final boss in Sunwell. In WotLK so far, roughly half of the players have finished Naxx (easy by former WoW standards). As for the end boss, only time will tell, and X will be somewhere between 3% and 50%. Most likely closer to the 3% end.
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The Blizzard developers disagree with you. Your attitude is basically: "Only the top X% of players should be able to encounter the end boss in the game." Which was the case for all pre-WotLK WoW. But Blizzard has decided to increase X and make the game more accessible to casual players.
Of course, it's all about the specific numbers for X. In the original WoW, much less than 1% of the players had downed any boss in Naxx. In TBC, less than 3% had downed the final boss in Sunwell. In WotLK so far, roughly half of the players have finished Naxx (easy by former WoW standards). As for the end boss, only time will tell, and X will be somewhere between 3% and 50%. Most likely closer to the 3% end.
You can get your own statistics here: http://www.wowprogress.com/
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,163024/article.html
Put away the pitchforks...
I had an SD card die on me after I tried squeezing out a few more pictures from a digital camera on low battery. After I tried some data recovery software, I sent the card to a professional data recovery service. Their verdict: internal physical damage to the card, data recovery impossible.