True, though I think you&#x27;re oversimplifying things: &quot;changing it drastically&quot; is fairly vague.<p>WOW has changed lots in every version.  There are plenty of holdouts that think it&#x27;s gotten too &quot;easy&quot; since the first expansion, a flaw that has been repeated by every expansion after.  Yet WOW has thrived (yes, their numbers peaked, but I&#x27;ve not seen any convincing argument that they have been better off not making the changes they did.)<p>And that&#x27;s just one example.  In my limited experience, EVERY game that is maintained over time gets changes to make it more accessible, and some portion of existing players always bitch.<p>In some cases, they are right (thus your above examples).  In others, the masses decide these changes WEREN&#x27;T so drastic, and are content.  (Or they decide them like them, which automatically makes them non-drastic).  And those many examples simply fail to stand out over time, skewing your perception.