GameSpy has a The Burning Crusade Preview in which it is announced that all the new raid dungeons introduced in the expansion will be capped at 25 players. The old 40-man dungeons of level 60 will still exist, but there will be no level 70 dungeons that need 40 players.
Now this is welcome news. I wrote before that I considered groups of 40 as being too big. If you want to have groups of 40 regularly, you either need a medium sized guild in which everybody turns up for every raid, which is a bit stressful, or you need a huge guild with 200+ players, in which you don't know the other players, because there are just too many of them.
This change of the raid number cap from 40 to 25 will have a huge impact on guild life, and how the end-game is played. Guilds can become either smaller, or with less strict rules on raid attendance, and that makes the game more casual player friendly. There will be more raiding guilds, and a higher percentage of people able to participate in raids. Very positive changes, and I am really looking forward to that.
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