As Legion is about to be released, there is a change afoot and Blizzard isn't flat-out saying it. That is, the push toward the manual finder tool over the automated finders.
I think this is a great balance that will have a lot of automated-finder players extremely upset because they continue to feel like ALL content in the game should be accessible without ever trying to be connected to players in the game.
However, I think, this is the primary push back from what started the slide in WoW in the first place. That is, when the automated finders came into creation there were many pros but they came with many cons.
The Pros of course, include no more screaming in trade. No more hours and hours of waiting to form a group.
The Cons of course, no more group commitment, loss of community, loss of group accomplishment.
I think this new system of Mythics being outside the automated queue system is the perfect compromise and it fits the model they've used with LFR to Normal+ raiding.
Yea, players are going to complain. But, it brings back some of the old WoW without eliminating the new.
