1. #981
    Quote Originally Posted by roahn the warlock View Post
    Yes I can, it is called logic. Seeing, no wait. Seeing as they are taking it away for 6.0, kinda makes you think they prooooobably don't like it

    So then that means they like it because they even introduced it in TBC, and kept it in WoTLK, and even made it available in Cataclysm for chars at level 60, right? I mean, going by thaaat logic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by quras View Post
    Clearly you have never driven a corvette if all you're doing is driving slow.
    Let me rephrase, I own a completely restored 1967 mustang fastback, passed down through the family. It's fast, sure. But it's not much faster than newer cars with their 2.4 liter tubro charged blah blah blah.

    But it most certiantly looks cooler, and does turn heads.
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  3. #983
    Quote Originally Posted by roahn the warlock View Post
    SNIP...

    I'll say it again, they are pretty much adding all the crap Gw2 has. that stuff would be trivial with flying. It really has nothing to do with exploring.
    You could be dead on. Blizzard is a pro at looking at other games and leaching off someone elses ideas, changing them around making it their own.

    Take garrisons, it's a mix of SWTOR companions, Sims time management and farmville upkeep with multiple tweaks. A copy of other games mashed together with tweaks.

    But removing flying from max level?

    Thats one of the more stupidest moves I have seen blizzard make in 10 years. As if flying at max level somehow hindered the game during level.

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    All of this is basically a war between people who actually want to play a mmoRPG and those for whom WoW is just cheap entertainment. Guess who is who. Not terribly challenging to figure out. Blizzard has catered in the last years, arguably since end of TBC, to the cheap entertainment crowd at the game's expense. Maybe they got tired of cheapening the game experience, got their souls back from the devil, or just want to experiment with moving in a different direction this time around with WoD. Nobody knows.

    What is for certain though, is that Afrasiabi mentioned the possibility of no flight for the whole expac intentionally, to gauge reactions from the playerbase.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Yarathir View Post
    So then that means they like it because they even introduced it in TBC, and kept it in WoTLK, and even made it available in Cataclysm for chars at level 60, right? I mean, going by thaaat logic.
    Let us continue, in tbc it was difficult to get flying that was actually useful, most of the time I used my ground mount because 60% sucked. Wrath made sure you couldn't fly till 77. Cata, let's not look at Cata, they have said Cata was the worst for several reasons. Mop was the first step in the other direction, you legit cannot fly until 90, no alt privilege either

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    Quote Originally Posted by Srg56 View Post
    All of this is basically a war between people who actually want to play a mmoRPG and those for whom WoW is just cheap entertainment. Guess who is who. Not terribly challenging to figure out. Blizzard has in the last years, arguably since end of TBC, appealed to the cheap entertainment crowd at the game's expense. Maybe they got tired of cheapening the game experience, got their souls back from the devil, or just want to experiment with moving in a different direction this time around with WoD. Nobody knows.

    What is for certain though, is that Afrasiabi mentioned the possibility of no flight for the whole expact intentionally, to gauge reactions from the playerbase.
    you sir, have summed up every argument on MMO champion ever, in an amazing way, I have never seen anyone else who didnt look at is as casuals and hardcores, but RPG players, and entertainment players.

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    World of Warcraft started life as a Computer Roleplaying Game, where part of the fun of the game experience was pretending to be your character. Stuff like applying poisons and eating food enhanced the verisimilitude of the experience of playing a fantasy character in another world. Now that game has changed to become a tactical arcade lobby game.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yarathir View Post
    So then that means they like it because they even introduced it in TBC, and kept it in WoTLK, and even made it available in Cataclysm for chars at level 60, right? I mean, going by thaaat logic.
    Don't forget redesigning the entire world of warcraft to allow flying nearly everywhere. Pretty sure you don't do that if you dislike the ability to fly.

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    Flying was never actually intended for the game. It is a bug similar to auto discovering flight paths for a couple of years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Srg56 View Post
    All of this is basically a war between people who actually want to play a mmoRPG and those for whom WoW is just cheap entertainment. Guess who is who. Not terribly challenging to figure out. Blizzard has in the last years, arguably since end of TBC, appealed to the cheap entertainment crowd at the game's expense. Maybe they got tired of cheapening the game experience, got their souls back from the devil, or just want to experiment with moving in a different direction this time around with WoD. Nobody knows.

    What is for certain though, is that Afrasiabi mentioned the possibility of no flight for the whole expact intentionally, to gauge reactions from the playerbase.
    Could be they realized that creating to much easy content is not good for the longevity of the game, and that it essentially bored people out quickly. I don't think well see them remove LFR, but I do think it will evolve into something else eventually.

  9. #989
    Quote Originally Posted by roahn the warlock View Post
    Let us continue, in tbc it was difficult to get flying that was actually useful, most of the time I used my ground mount because 60% sucked. Wrath made sure you couldn't fly till 77. Cata, let's not look at Cata, they have said Cata was the worst for several reasons. Mop was the first step in the other direction, you legit cannot fly until 90, no alt privilege either

    Yes, but everything was more difficult to get in classic and TBC.


    And don't get me wrong again. I preferred the MoP way over any other way. I think in Cata, that they should have only sold flying to 85 chars. I'm simply contesting the "they're restricting it now, so it means all of Blizzard/majority doesn't like it" by saying "they had to like the idea to implement it to begin with and then preserve it for multiple expansions.".



    In the end, I'll stick with thinking them designing content for ground mounts should be the way they go, with flying only being sold at level cap. Not before (unless maybe you leveled at least 3 chars to 100, as an example), and not after, by making up some arbitrarily wall/restriction.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Callei View Post
    Greg said he regretted it and would have seen it implemented differently. He was also very careful to use 'I' instead of 'we' on those tweets, to establish it as his own personal opinion. And, as he tweeted, WoW wasn't his personal fiefdom. If he had half as much control as this forum thinks he did, we would be playing Nerubians and Mantid by now.

    On-topic, frankly, ground travel bores the hell out of me. The same rock formation doesn't get more interesting the fifth time I ride past it regardless of what mount I'm using, and even showing off some of my less-common mounts like the Argent Tourney stuff gets old after a while. Mob packs in WoW aren't dangerous at level cap and frankly never will be, outside endgame zones like Isle of Thunder/Timeless Isle, because they have to be balanced for the average questing player in that zone's questing gear. Three Spinning Crane Kicks and a Fists of Fury later, the annoyance is over with and I'm back on track.

    So all this talk from Blizzard about reintroducing danger to the world by confining us to ground mounts for a patch is a bunch of bupkiss, especially on PvE/RP-PvE servers where we'll be getting a deflag option where nothing will flag us for PvP or allow us to attack another player outside BGs/Arenas. It's not dangerous when I can steamroll the poor bastards that aggro on my monk who makes a hobby of beating things five times her size to death barefisted, nor is it terribly difficult to learn the terrain and the fastest way around it. If it's because they want flying to feel like a reward, that's their prerogative and I had an easier time swallowing that line. If it's an attempt to revitalize world PvP, more power to them but it won't affect my gameplay outside constraining me to my ground mounts and flight paths.

    This isn't a dealbreaker in the face of everything else Warlords is bringing to the table, but it's certainly a strong incentive to just chill in my Garrison or the cities and RP between dungeon and LFR queues and maybe spend ten minutes exploring 'til 6.1 hits and I can explore every nook and cranny of Draenor at my leisure.
    Finally a respectable argument from the other side that doesn't sound whiney, though I will offer this. think of WoD as a timeless isle/ GW2 thing. they are adding a multitude of things that flying would trivialize

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yarathir View Post
    Yes, but everything was more difficult to get in classic and TBC.


    And don't get me wrong again. I preferred the MoP way over any other way. I think in Cata, that they should have only sold flying to 85 chars. I'm simply contesting the "they're restricting it now, so it means all of Blizzard/majority doesn't like it" by saying "they had to like the idea to implement it to begin with and then preserve it for multiple expansions.".



    In the end, I'll stick with thinking them designing content for ground mounts should be the way they go, with flying only being sold at level cap. Not before (unless maybe you leveled at least 3 chars to 100, as an example), and not after, by making up some arbitrarily wall/restriction.
    I don't disagree with that (I also honestly wish I could give flying to alts) But, I see why they are trying it, because WoD really is WoW 2.0, it has a lot of new things they are trying with endgame. That flying would ruin. I listed them before, basically they are real-time scenarios.
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  11. #991
    Quote Originally Posted by roahn the warlock View Post
    Yes I can, it is called logic. Seeing, no wait. Seeing as they are taking it away for 6.0, kinda makes you think they prooooobably don't like it
    My brain tells me I should eat all those cookies in the jar. I conclude that I shouldn't. It should be easily distinguishable what is logical and what isn't. It is possible some at Blizz like, or liked flying, but for the sake of the game and it's mmo nature. That it's ok to remove it to an extent.

  12. #992
    Quote Originally Posted by roahn the warlock View Post


    I don't disagree with that (I also honestly wish I could give flying to alts) But, I see why they are trying it, because WoD really is WoW 2.0, it has a lot of new things they are trying with endgame. That flying would ruin. I listed them before, basically they are real-time scenarios.


    So long as they learn from it and stop being wet noodles, bending over whenever whine threads pop up. We'll see how it unwraps, but again, their wishy-washiness continues being a pain in the ass.

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    Clearly you have never driven a corvette if all you're doing is driving slow.



    You have flown at max level. IS that hard to understand? Removing it now just seems petty and then to only get it back months later and well after you reached max level making all the reasons it was removed rather pointless.

    Does he have a fairly solid reason to get a refund, I think he does. He didn't buy that mount to rid it on the ground I bet and since we could fly at max level for nearly 7 years, I bet he thought he could fly in current content once he reached max level.

    I think he has a valid point in asking for a refund.
    C'mon, are you just skipping the arguments you cant answer now? He can fly it in all the content that he bought it for, Blizzard did not sell futures contract, they sold a mount to be used right now right here. With your logic, I should get refund on all my susbscription fees if level cap is increased, because I paid them to play at max level in current content.

  14. #994
    It's already been said that we will be able to fly in 6.1, they said it's coming through a quest chain and that's something that takes time to develop and not just something that they can throw together as decide in 2 days.

    He's hinting at that this a bit of an experiment of maybe restricting flying even more or simply disallowing it in the expansion after WoD.

    Personally, I don't mind at all, I think the game would be better without flying, but right now the game is designed around flying in such a way that they really can't remove it in a neat way. Places like the Timeless Isle and Isle of Thunder being no-fly zones works great. Both those islands are awesome and would have been shitty if we could fly there.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ShadowyFanatic View Post
    WOW, do I NOT miss that type of crap. Tell your raid leader, from me, that she needs to make sure to regularly change her [sort-of-expletive] lest she die of TSS. Seriously, even if you WERE competeing for #1 guild in the WORLD, it's a moot point - it's a game! You get NO reward for playing it other than enjoyment. You are paying money. The people who do get rewarded? The streamers? They make their living off of more than just WoW, and the one's that "live the dream" (nightmare imo, something that's supposed to epitomize fun becoming a literal job) and have sponsorships - that will NEVER be their guild.

    A GOOD guild/raid leader would say "we're organizing groups to do questing and running dungeons and we'll help people craft gear to fill in gaps, but come hell or high water when the first raids open up we're going, optimal or not". A BAD guild/raid leader makes you stress out over something as trivial as a game. My two cents.
    Of course there is people to help do things, but I have the most fun, well HAD I don't so much anymore. Was that race, even if it was just a server race. that feeling when you are going as hard as you can, and downing the shit out of a raid boss and you're like woooo.

    I am one of those people who couldn't give a crap about gear, I often give up peices to others (As long as my spot isnt filled because suddenly they are doing more dps. Which loot council doesn't realize is because they have better gear. *vents*)
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    Doesn't bother me. If this is true it's going to be funny seeing all the QQ threads about how much they hate WoW and Blizzard for doing it and that they're going to quit. People would quit WoW solely because they can't fly in a single area...lol, that's just a little silly. Really shows how much they're interested in WoW too. If this is all it takes for you to quit then WoW was never a game for you in the first place.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Yarathir View Post
    So long as they learn from it and stop being wet noodles, bending over whenever whine threads pop up. We'll see how it unwraps, but again, their wishy-washiness continues being a pain in the ass.
    I think we can Ignore cata. Cata was literally half-assed because they used all their time fixing old world to get new people. I really don't think heroics was the issue with cata, it was like a year of 4.0 mixed with the fact there was no 10 man (flex) mode.

    with cata out of the way, they really arent so wishy washy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by roahn the warlock View Post
    Finally a respectable argument from the other side that doesn't sound whiney, though I will offer this. think of WoD as a timeless isle/ GW2 thing. they are adding a multitude of things that flying would trivialize
    That, I get. I do--honestly. I just don't find ground travel very engaging in a game where my monk has done her part to stop the Scourge, break the Twilight's Hammer, and participated in a revolution after doing her damnedest to protect her homeland from her own faction, and done most of that on dragonback (or, more recently, serpentback). I can see the value of ground travel while leveling, so flight feels like a 'hell yeah!' moment, but at level cap it becomes more jarring to immersion than suddenly swiping it away does (which can be justified as keeping a low profile, seeing as how 11/10 things on Draenor are out to kill you and you don't know the terrain yet).

    But they haven't really brought up flight trivializing those events since Blizzcon, if they ever did. Since then they've gone on about the combat mechanics being the core of the gameplay (which, while not false, are hardly challenged by level 93 mobs) and Draenor feeling dangerous (which has the same pitfalls as before, at least during normal travel).
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    I like the ability to use a flying mount, it's pretty cool. But if Blizz decide to take it away and make it only ground mounts then hey ho, doesn't make that big of a difference. I certainly won't be threatening to unsub/not buy the xpac. Are you people kidding?? How highly strung are you that you're willing to quit a game over something so small. "If you take away something that I enjoy in the game that has little to no baring on my overall ability to PVE/PVP I will quit so help me!"

    Get over yourselves, jeez.

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    Quote Originally Posted by quras View Post
    You could be dead on. Blizzard is a pro at looking at other games and leaching off someone elses ideas, changing them around making it their own.

    Take garrisons, it's a mix of SWTOR companions, Sims time management and farmville upkeep with multiple tweaks. A copy of other games mashed together with tweaks.

    But removing flying from max level?

    Thats one of the more stupidest moves I have seen blizzard make in 10 years. As if flying at max level somehow hindered the game during level.
    Seriously? Everyone "steals" ideas from everyone. It's better to "steal" a good idea than to create lousy content themselves.

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