View Poll Results: Would you prefer less portal usage?

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  • Yes

    102 25.44%
  • No

    225 56.11%
  • I don't care, but I see the point.

    74 18.45%
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  1. #181
    The only time(s) I think "portal usage" is excessive, is when its done in a raid/instance to bypass having to create actual art assets with continuity. (aka Dragonsoul)

  2. #182
    OP I think you may be in the minority on this one. I enjoy a good RP experience the first time through, but I don't want to spend 10-20 minutes on a mount or worse (having to actually be at keyboard) to go from Point A Town to Point B Dungeon/Zone. That is some extreme time wasted that offers no real point when playing a ... wait for it... game.

  3. #183
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jakisuaki View Post
    What reason would blizzard have to trivialize their own game world?
    Because, unlike you, Blizzard understand that the massive majority of people doesn't care. It's just a video game, chill out... You sound a little bit too involved in a virtual world.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jakisuaki View Post
    I completely agree. What I mean with portals being uncreative isn't the idea of folding space and time to appear somewhere else instantanously, it's just that it's so stale to use. I liked WoD's mage tower concept where you had to farm waystones to actually use the portals to get around. It was just a tad too repetitive and grindy.
    25 stones to create the portal that lasts forever is too grindy? Seriously? I thought you wanted those open world feels? What exactly is 'too repetitive' about 25 stones ONE time? Please, do tell us.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jakisuaki View Post
    I believe your first question was about the correlation between fast travel or no fast travel and how it has anything to do with an rpg. I answered that in my post, it's fine if you found it salty, there's nothing I can really do there, but to elaborate on it; I don't want anyone to walk anywhere, hell I'm even fine with flying to an extent. I do think it needs to be harder to obtain, but I'm fine with it, the same goes for portals. Portals can be cool, but not when used to squander the open-world feeling of the game.
    You want open world feel and immersion. Read the damn quest and grasp the concept that they need you in Ulduar NOW not 3 days from now when you finally drag your ass over there. Dont like the portal, DONT use it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jakisuaki View Post
    Oh get your head out of your ass. WoW is an open-world mmo, it should be explored. There, I said it, it should. It's not some rush-time job that you do on a dare. If you like a linear straightforward game go play trackmania or something. What reason would blizzard have to trivialize their own game world?
    Asked and answered... read the damn quest before you get your panties in a bunch.

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  5. #185
    If I travel to a new location I'm fine with doing it with zeppelins and whatnot. But going to Dalaran and then Ulduar for the millionth time it's nice to have a portal.

    And if you think about it, it also makes sense having a portal to those places. Dalaran is a mage city and lore wise we visited Northrend and Ulduar several years ago. So having mages learning to make portals there during that time is sensible.

  6. #186
    I think use of portals create some sense of urgency and at least make more sense in terms of what's going on right now. Taking the scenic route while demons are invading the world would be less immersive for me than using whatever means we can possibly afford.

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    As a mage; I really don't understand what all the fuss is about. XD

  8. #188
    For RP and flavor I wouldnt mind long flights cut to instant travel like boats and airships do, but barring that hell no do I want there to he fewer portals.

  9. #189
    Quote Originally Posted by Jakisuaki View Post
    If there's no incentive to go do it then they won't, atleast not most of them, that's just how it is. If you had to go to a conference meeting in Paris but the option was there to stay home and just video-call it, most people would take the latter without a second thought.
    Trust me, if someone is curious about what a zone looks like they will go do it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by det View Post
    Also you could decide to form a guild that is called...like.."The Amish people of Azeroth" and denounce all quality of modern life and only do it the way it once was and apparently some people liked. With CRZ and all (damn, also a modern thing)...well...with...SOME luck and effort you find like minded people. I mean, the idea gets tossed around a lot here how awesome everything was back then, so it could work.
    Well, not really.

    The things I enjoyed about the old systems are only applicable when everyone is using those old systems. It's no fun being the only guy running out to the summoning stone at Moonbrook when all the other players are queued up in LFG and standing at the Stormwind bank. It's no fun being the guy galloping through the Stranglethorn jungle when every other player is moving at 3x your speed, 100 yds above your head. And so on.

    So its really not feasible to play that way anymore. The game has changed and moved on, in a way that 99% (invented statistic) of the playerbase prefers.


    Quote Originally Posted by Nupomaniac View Post
    This would most likely attract a bunch of people for two hours. Then they find out its actually not what they want and they find something else to complain about.

    TLDR: People dont know what they want
    I'm not complaining. I play and enjoy the game in its current state ; it's great.

    There are just certain things that I prefer about 'the old way'. And no, I don't think that Blizzard should revert to those systems, since it's quite obvious that the majority of the playerbase would hate it.

    I was just posting to let the OP know that I understood his point, and agreed with the sentiment.

  11. #191
    Quote Originally Posted by Jakisuaki View Post
    With a teleporter they just go and do their business, then hearthstone back to Stormwind to afk. It's so unimaginative!
    Welcome to the generation of instant gratification. The same can be said for most of wow's features that have come since the golden days. Queueing for dungeons, LFR, character boosts etc. etc. the list goes on.

    That's why i find it so funny how so many people complain about lack of content these days. There's not a lack of content it's just that the same content now takes you 2 minutes to complete instead of the hour it used to so you're stuck sitting in capital for the other 58 minutes wondering why you have nothing to do. But if they made it harder / take longer to complete that content than we'd just be back to people complaining that the game is too hard and it takes too much of a time investment.

    Ok, rant over sorry lol

  12. #192
    Quote Originally Posted by Jakisuaki View Post
    Watch out we've got a badass who thinks his opinion is the only one that matters. Grabbing a zeppelin or taking a boat atleast feels somewhat immersive, you have to go the harbor/zeppelin tower, wait for them both respectively, have a short takeoff scene, a loading screen, an arrival scene, and even then you don't get ported to right infront of your bloody objective.
    The take a zeppelin or a boat! who's stopping you? why do you want to limit other people's options...you sound like you think you're a badass who think his opinion is the only one that matters, from reading your replies here.

  13. #193
    Quote Originally Posted by Kragragh View Post
    The take a zeppelin or a boat! who's stopping you? why do you want to limit other people's options...you sound like you think you're a badass who think his opinion is the only one that matters, from reading your replies here.
    It's not that I don't consider everyone's opinions, of course I do, I just haven't seen many opinions that have impressed me. Those that did I gave a thorough response to.

  14. #194
    When I used to play Ultima Online, when I made a new character, do you know what I did? I gave them 2 rune books, fully charged. One for dungeons and other locations of interested, including my homes, and the other was for the major cities. I also arranged for them 2 mounts, one to put in stable to bond and the other to use until the bonding process completed.
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  15. #195
    Quote Originally Posted by Jakisuaki View Post
    It's not that I don't consider everyone's opinions, of course I do, I just haven't seen many opinions that have impressed me. Those that did I gave a thorough response to.
    opinions don't exist to impress you, they just are. 56% of the people don't think there's too many portals. 25.44% of the people agree with you. you go the old fashioned way without portals and we'll use the portals and everything will be fine. it's not fun for some people to fly 7 minutes to Tanaris or to wait 9 minutes for the zep to Northrend. if it's fun for you, you stand around and have your fun...but we're having just as much fun as you are, believe us. maybe you have too much time to think on these long commutes around azeroth...lol

  16. #196
    The world is getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

    Teleport from garrison to ashran to teleport in org to teleport in Twilight Highland then Fly to invasion point in Dwarf land.
    After invasion earth to garrison,
    Teleport from garrison to ashran to teleport in org to teleport in Uldum then Fly to invasion point in Tanaris.
    Earth to Org
    Teleport in Blasted Land the fly to invasion point near Stormwind.


    I see your point.
    I'm just tired to mount//dismount thing, when you click a portal

  17. #197
    One of the reasons I mained a mage back in Vanilla was so that I didn't have to crawl all over the place and could instead teleport, despite the reagents for using it being quite expensive back then. Even in vanilla I hated travelling through a zone you already knew and didn't need to farm something it was just one colossal waste of time, especially before the the flight paths actually got connected to each other.

    So I embrace anything that puts us as a far away as possible from early wow traveling.

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