Faizaniel

Have a very merry Christmas, everyone!

Stolen from MMO-Champion:

Think about it like this [BC], this is what STARTED the whole WoW juggernaut. Blizz had a vision of what the game should be, they released that vision as their game Classic WoW, and it was good. It was their vision, BC continued that vision. Then dollars and numbers change the vision. The original vision was what Blizz started with and that vision gets cannibalized by the bean counters influences.

Raiding accessibility has been around since the original Zul'Gurub (you only need 20 people to raid now?) back in vanilla. Not forcing people to group to level was part of the original WoW design, and back in 2004 that wasn't exactly something you could take for granted in a MMO. I can't speak for the developers, but I personally think making the game accessible to a wider group of players has been part of the vision of WoW all along, and so I don't really see making changes that allow people to see more content as contradictory to the vision.

Where are you in the Deepholm quest line? Unless it bugged out, if you finish the main quest sequence all the way through to "The Binding" you should get your portals back.
And beaten to it. :)

It's a very good time to roll an alt and check out the new 1-60 content.