Originally Posted by
Kaleredar
You also could fly before max level. And you could get loaner mounts to level in storm peaks and Icecrown (which you actually needed)
Yeah it's been pretty awesome for the majority of the game's existence.
Never quite felt like I was on "an adventure" on the timeless isle of isle of the thunder king or molten front or any of that jazz any moreso than I did places I could fly.
And who are you to say "YOU'RE NOT FEELING RIGHT IN THIS GAME!"
Maybe I like doing that.
The only "interactions" I've had with players as of lately on the "no flying" areas is waiting a few seconds so they aggro mobs instead of me we're both trying to run past, or destroying poorly geared players for bloody coins repeatedly.
I haven't been goaded to "become bestest buddies" with the random people I see.
I get my interaction with other people in raids and dungeons and BGs.
My interaction with people in the current "no-flying" areas, or when leveling up to max level, or even back on old Azeroth, don't match up to anything you're saying they supposedly did. I never relied or met up with people for anything that I wouldn't have required their help with anyway; i.e, challenging rare spawns or farming that ungodly number of yaungol for Shaohao rep which, frankly, wouldn't have been made any "less enjoyable" (as laughable as that thought is in regards to the latter) by flying mounts.
"Everywhere is something to do" actually doesn't last very long for blizzard. I don't consider camping out and waiting on some rarespawn or constantly running between rarespawn points "waiting for the 'something' to happen'" to be adequate justification, seeing as I did that while on a flying mount while hunting for the Time-lost proto-drake AND Aeonaxx.
If what people choose to do effects the way you enjoy the game, that's really a personal problem for you.
Change that comes at the effect of removing the way people like to play by saying "no you're not playing right, you should have fun this way" is not "good" change. And as that happens to conflict with how I LIKE to play the game, you're damn right I'm not going to lay down for that.
You might as well be complaining that they should remove LFD and LFR and make everyone just sit in trade chat to form groups because it was "a more meaningful experience" back when you had to do things like that. Can't tell you a single person I ever manually formed a group with back in the day. Never made a note of them.