05-31-2011, 11:24 PM
Nori Wrote:You pugged 40 mans in vanilla? I don't think so. Considering the instances to even get into raids back then (strat comes to mind), required a group that had a raid-like setting. Either that, or getting carried by a guild at the start.
Same goes with BC. One of the few realms that pugged was area 52, and they only pugged Kara. Pugging barely existed in the initial game, or it's first expansion. Wrath, however, is the expansion where Blizzard said it's not only okay to pug, it has just as many, if not more, benefits then guild raiding.
And Wrath was by far their most successful expansion. Suddenly WoW appealed to the mainstream more, and people who had jobs and families could sit down and play it for cheap entertainment whenever they felt like it. They made tons of money off of that idea.

