From his own MMO bloggage (because Slashdot wasn’t enough).

Firstly he quotes Blizzard’s rep on the increasing gap and accessibility barriers between casuals and hardcore:

Those with orange texted items are still unique and beautiful snowflakes. As the game evolves, the current “to-die-for” items will be yesterday’s news. Everyone will be chasing the “next-big-thing”, and so on and so forth.

Then he comments:

Which, to a degree, I get. Just the same, my hopeful words from the last post (My hope is that the folks at Blizzard are aware of this and are taking steps to address this issue.) seem even more naive now. Blizzard is well aware of the issue; they just have no intention of doing anything about it.