Fishing for angry responses again? For someone who likes to point out the flaws in my argument, you went STRAIGHT for the insults and ad hominem.
But to refute your post:
Shown here at 55:00 in the Q&A directly from Ion's mouth:
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
"It's a product of the environmental artists and how we built it. Of showing three largely disconnected shattered pieces of the planet. And some amount ofARTISTIC TRICKERY involved in creating the illusion of a larger planet. Those are utterly incompatible with flying. This is a choice between creating that immersive epic backdrop and landscape, and allowing flying.
Also resting on the long tradition of, even in expansions with a lot of flying everywhere else, we've had zones like isle of thunder timeless isle and molten front where you couldn't."
He literally says that flying couldn't be done because of the conflict with the art. Don't come in here trying to start a fight by insulting me, then get your facts wrong.
Besides which, the one thing he and you seem to forget about "The tradition of no-flying islands" is the context:
Flying everywhere else. And not just flying everywhere else, but flying being available from the moment the expansion launches.
NOT 8 months later after exhausting all the content! The tradition of no-flying islands was ALWAYS in the context of a larger world where flying was the NORM, not the exception.
And I'm not even asking for anything excessive! ONE area that's specifically devoted to flying in EXACTLY the same way that "TRADITIONALLY" No-flying had areas specifically devoted to that type of gameplay. If you weren't so focused on being a giant hater and denying anyone types of fun that don't match your own, you'd recognize how reasonable this is.
If No-flying is going to be the norm, then give us a flying island that's a direct counterpart to the "Tradition". And treat it exactly the same way: Fill it with lucrative catch-up loot, important crafting resources, and be the primary zone for current expansion quest progression leading up to a raid.
Until then, every time you cite no-flying as being the best thing to happen to WoW, you lack credibility. With no modern zones specifically dedicated to flying to compare and gather data from, any attempt to hold up no-flying as better is complete and total bullshit.