While it's useful and quick, I don't mind flying being scrapped forever. I still don't have my BFA flying and me hating the shit out of Mechagon can't be bothered.
I know they won't do that though, and that's ok.
While it's useful and quick, I don't mind flying being scrapped forever. I still don't have my BFA flying and me hating the shit out of Mechagon can't be bothered.
I know they won't do that though, and that's ok.
I think I prefer the way it is now. You play the world like it's actually there. And when you have seen it all a hundred times, you can get to fly.
I don't want flying being available too fast. Flying has always been kind of dumb in WoW. The way flying works in wow, makes it too... easy and convenient. I can definitely see it from developers perspective why they don't really like flying, and why they were thinking of removing it. Flying makes the world completely flat. It dumbs the game too much.
And don't give me that rubbish of "Oh, if you don't like flying, then don't fly." I don't accept it as an argument, because if Blizzard were to introduce an instant teleport to get to wherever you wanted, people would gladly use it. Or better yet, a button that completed all the quests. Or even more crazy, complete all the dungeons, with all of it's loot. And be glad these options existed. I would damn well whine, but some gits would, of course, say that tired crap of "don't like it, don't use it". And flying as it is now, does fall into this category of "too easy/convenient", in my opinion.
Just look at TBC, where first flying speed was basically level 40 mount speed. Back then it was a compromise between speed and noclipping through world, sometimes you wanted to fly, sometimes you didn't (because it was slow). Nowadays flying is so much faster that it's literally not an option to use a ground mount - it both slower, puts you in risk of attacked by players/NPCs, increases your path time - there is literally no reason to use a ground mount these days, which is just idiotic decision on blizzards part.
That's why flying needs to be removed or toned down significantly, getting it back to +60% speed would be a great start - people who can't live without beelining into WQ areas while watching azmongold will still be happy, and people who can't live without progression towards carpal tunnel syndrome by wiggling around on their ground mount will finally be happy.
Originally Posted by Urban Dictionary
I honestly don't get what the bitchin is about. You don't HAVE to fly. You don't HAVE to unlock pathfinding. Who is forcing you to use your flying mounts? Nobody. :P
I just don't understand all the complaining about a system in the game that gives you a choice.
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“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
Add climbing to the game and gate flying until the next content patch for every new zone.
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
Now imagine joining a TF2 server, it happens that it's the only server left in the whole world, it has two tickboxes before you pick a character:
aimbot
wallhack
You are presented with a CHOICE of using those cheats right before you start, you have an OPTION to use them according to your logic.
But in reality, after you tick off those boxes you get loaded into a game where everyone uses those cheats, and it's not a fun game to play. Then when you try to talk about it and explain the situation you get jumped upon by people who keep parroting "IT'S AN OPTION LOL DON'T USE IT", deliberately or not, but completely missing the point
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I know that you have no idea why flying is detrimental for the game, we've established that a long time ago
Originally Posted by Urban Dictionary
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
Choosing to not fly when it's available happens as often as raids that disabled the 30% ICC buff in their raid.
After all, it was "optional"
I mean, I definitely was the most active in expansions that had flying from the start. Once pathfinder was introduced, I saw it as more of a chore than interesting and interactive gameplay. Still, I've gone through all 3 pathfinder grinds so far, and I can honestly say that once I got flying, I pretty much lost interest in the expansion because pathfinder was the only real long term goal any of them had. That's not an issue caused by flying, that's an issue caused by a lack of compelling end game world content.
Let's be honest anyway, who actually stops to fight things that they pull while running? I just run right through them. You can say that flying causes people to interact less with the world, and that developers restricting it is an attempt to get people to engage more with it, but honestly, it just makes me skip everything I can until I can fly, and then I start to actually explore and interact more.
I mean, if you like to think about it this way - good for you, but you should consider moving away from those discussions if you are not willing to understand the issues with flying. Here's one thing to think about - developers release and design content around the way and speed of how players consume it, with rapid-flying available, developers have to make rewards smaller, thanks to how fast you can consume world-content due to being able to fly with 310% speed, so literally anyone who doesn't use 310% speed flying gets the same rewards for more effort and more time. Without 310% speed flying developers would have to tune their rewards up, because nobody in their right damn mind would want to spend time to travel to a WQ 15 minutes away from a closest flight point to get 20 gold.
Flying is not "just an option" in this game, it's a mechanic (and the most boring implementation of flying in videogames, even flappy bird has better flying that wow does) that you have to use if you want to get anything done in this game, denying that is just ridiculous;
Liking it or not is completely different thing - i don't like it and want it to be removed, you like it and want it to stay, but saying ridiculous things like "flying is optional and doesn't affect the game" is just stupid.
Originally Posted by Urban Dictionary