World of Warcraft: The War Within is well and truly out now, but it's technically been playable since August 22 via the pricier edition that came with early access. As the rest of the MMO's community piled into an expansion that many players, including our friends at PC Gamer, really seem to like, Blizzard announced a change to the early game experience that would make the new level grind a bit slower, and while you can reasonably argue that the change is a healthy one, the post-early access timing of it hasn't gone down swimmingly.
In an August 27 forum post promising changes for today, August 28, community manager Kaivax explains that WoW players coming into The War Within with tip-top gear were "extremely powerful relative to that initial content." Kaivax stresses that, yeah, "it is entirely intended that effort put into gearing translates into a significant combat advantage at the start of a new expansion," but not this much.
