Because BC isn't popular by the majority. It's just remembered with rose-colored glasses by the forum-going few because it was the first WoW expansion.

Hell man, look at the debacle with the Pandas. Prior to MoP's announcement people were clamoring for Pandaren. When it was announced, the rest came to the forums saying "WTF!? PANDAS!?!"

What you see on the forums do NOT represent an accurate picture of the whole.

Also - no, at the start Cataclysm went hardcoe. In fact, it was Ghostcrawler himself who said they modeled the difficulty of the Heroics off of Burning Crusade, and had to admit that was a mistake as it caused a massive bottleneck that was VERY unfun to play - which was amusing to me as not 2 months prior to that, he wrote a blog telling players to "Stop complaining about difficulty and get better!". They only changed BACK to Wrath/Casual when they lost 15% of their subscriber base, sacked 10% of their staff and canceled Blizzcon.

Did you get hit by an MIB memory-wipe wand, by any chance?

BC was very popular especially for new raiders or raiders who didn't get in on the ground floor during vanilla/original WoW raid progression. I remember that there was a huge growth in the number of guilds to get attuned and geared for raiding. In BC, you started with Karazhan. The original Karazhan was amazing. Not much else needs to be said. The progression in SSC/Tempest Keep/BT/Sunwell was also miles ahead of everything else.

That said, I don't think there are as many players on a proportional basis willing to spend 20-25 hours per week in instances and farming for that kind of hardcoe progression raiding anymore. People did it because it was something new and exciting. Five years later, most of WoW's current subscribers seem to be satisfied with LFR (progression raids nerfed for casuals) which doesn't require heavy gearing requirements or time commitments.

Interesting. I wonder if the developers/programmers get as bored creating the content as the players do consuming it?

We have 4 man raids, adventure zones (large group PvE), and quests. At end game we will also be able to open up the other two faction territories for their PvE content. There is additional PvE content in Cyrodiil.

Isn't this enough?

In BC only 10% of the WoW populace raided. That is not very popular, and the reason why they started making the raids and dungeons easier in the following expansions.

it will be interesting to see how Zenimaxs plans to keep us glued to the game after 2 months of flying through the content. Amazing PvP is not worth paying a subscription fee for. TESO will be F2P after a year and a half of its release date, watch and see.

Theres no such thing as 4 man raids. Thats a 4 man group dungeon but its not a raid. I would suggest reading the OP and figure out whats being asked for. No one is disputing there will be single group dungeons and more quests to do after we hit 50. Raiders want raids its that simple.

it will be interesting to see how Zenimaxs plans to keep us glued to the game after 2 months of flying through the content. Amazing PvP is not worth paying a subscription fee for. TESO will be F2P after a year and a half of its release date, watch and see.