Also, where I believe everyone who can will create a Death Knight and play through the starter quests (and if you have WotLK and you don’t for some reason, you’re doing yourself a great disservice as these are the best set of starter quests in the game), many will stop playing at 58 when the DK is “released” into the normal world. The new stuff is done and now you have to a choice of playing in Northrend on your main or doing Outland all over again.

Just had to respond, while it does make sense there’s a lot of things in the past with WoW that made good sense but didn’t happen, or as you noted when it happened it happened too late.

And as Lethras notes, area’s will be more crowded if everyone has a lvl 70 dk and one or two normal 70’s. While with a normal realise all the 70’s spread over Borean Tundra and Howling Fjord, which are indeed huge zones. And the new DK’s will crowd EPL and HFP. Which won’t be as much of a problem as HFP was in TBC, in the beta the place DK starting area is swarmed but thanks to the world adapting to your progress it’s not a very big deal. And respawn timers are way faster then TBC.

So Blizzard did indeed learn from their mistakes, I doubt the DK area will cause much problems in it’s current state.