(Am I actually allowed to post here? I really don't know the ropes of forums! If I'm not suppose to post here I'm sry...)

To tell you the truth I never really played WoW, a few months and that was it for me...

Reason? Like some others, I think WoW is a game that doesn't depend on the skill of a player, but depend on the amount of time you spend on the game. (But then I really don't know a thing about WoW, so please don't be offended WoW players ><!)

Anyways to the point:

Large group raids has always been one of my favourite part of WoW (I came from a huge guild), however I believe lowering the cap in this expansion has it's good side...and bad side.

The good:

Imagine buying the expansion and then not having enough people with that bought expansion for a 40 man raid? I came from a pretty large guild, and even I don't expect 40+ of my members to buy the expansion on the first day.

This should prevent guilds to break up into "expansion only" guilds etc... that would be horrible to see.

The bad:

Like you mentioned, having such a low cap is terrible for larger guilds. Being in a large guild is dramatic enough with a 40 man raid cap...lol a 25 cap would break up alot of guilds. Blizzard should be expected to loose ALOT of hardcore players...

In my opinion, lower this cap is a very good thing...and this is comming from someone who is from a large WoW guild. With the reason above and the fact that lowering this cap will probably make people less "hardcore"...a 25 raid cap sounds like a good idea indeed.

But yes, I guess we'll just have to see how it plays out...