Flying sucks
It's a legitimate question. Much like no flight. "A few people (designers) like the idea of no flight, so why shouldn't everyone?" I don't know? Maybe because 8 years of speed, convenience, and freedom should not be excluded based on "reasons". Aside from the point A to B argument, and being out of reach for PvP (not my concern on PvE and RP realms), there is no actual, legitimate excuse to leave it disabled once the content is no longer current. Come 6.1, everything we are doing right now will be old hat... VERY, old hat. Particularly for those of us "lucky" enough to spend 3 months in the Beta.
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Convenience isn't truly lost though. They are only slowed by 52%, much like right now, and they are hardly at ANY disadvantage given the resources of the Garrisons.
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Sounds like efficiency to some IS fun, so not sure how asking to have that efficiency removed/delayed helps anyone. With travel time slowed by 52%, they've effectively added double their playtime to complete the same tasks. Logic.
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Yes. Speed, freedom, and convenience must be just horrid.
Quite the strawman ya got there. This is an MMO-RPG. Has been for 10 years. 8 of that 10 years has offered expansion that took you to the skies on the back of a Dragon, or other choice beast or machine, in an effort to soar through the skies on your way to your next great adventure. They opened Pandora's box when it came to flight in Cataclysm. Had they left it only 70 (TBC), 77 (Wrath) 83 (Cata - specific zones) and 90 (Pandaria), this would be a non-issue.
Now they are trying to reopen the box and push things back inside. Not sure how they plan to pull that off without some kinks.
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"I need the convenience" is the only reason anti-fliers even claim they use flight. Also, EVERY launch has a positive turnout, so that is hardly a usable statistic.
Not sure what makes you say that, they enabled flight in Azeroth, how are they trying to close Pandora's box when you can still fly in Azeroth? Nothing is ever going to stop you from flying everywhere you could fly before. Technically, they didn't take away anything that was already there, they only chose to ommit flight in this new content.
There's no Pandora's box here at all. You just want there to be by crying wolf over and over and over and over. And well.. you know how that story goes.
It's had the largest subscription jump of any expansion release.. and it seems most people are enjoying the no flight. So yea.. largely positive turnout.
Last edited by Ordinator; 2014-11-24 at 10:47 PM.
The idea is pushing the feature back under wraps when it was already fully unwrapped in prior iterations. Not sure why this is a difficult concept to grasp. Flight was unleashed in TBC, Wrath, Cata, and Pandaria. Now, it is being re-leashed in Draenor. Big mistake from my perspective.
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It's called NOSTALGIA. TBC players, like myself, wanted to return to see Velen, Khadgar, and the rest of the gang to see how things were in this AU. Anyone who assumes the surge is NOT related to Nostalgia would be pretty foolish given that the game is 10 years old and the ONLY thing to bring back players is the promise of the good ole days.
Or maybe there are people who thought the good ole days were fucking boring and awful, and picked up WoD because it's something different and very much not the old game?
I super love calling out people for making assumptions while making an enormous, baseless assumption of your own.
If people thought TBC was boring, they would not be here. All we are doing is helping the Draenei on the non-corrupt version of Draenor. The glued back together draenor. The same races, beasts, and pretty much zones of outlands (Draenor). This has nostalgia written all over it. And, just to really put it into perspective, there have been tons of hints dropped that the Burning Legion returns in 7.0 making the fight that much more like TBC. Will likely also introduce Tinkers and Demon Hunters... two classes we are already starting to see signs of. Maybe, if you spent less time power leveling, and more time seeing the signs, the nostalgia would have been more obvious. The only differences between Draenor and Outlands is Flight and Fel energy.
Logically, no. Think about it this way: TBC and WotLK had flight while 1-60 content did not. People wanted it, but they didn't get it until another expansion altogether. Your argument would make sense if the second TBC had released, all of azeroth was promised flight, same with WotLK but it wasn't the case. They had been selective with unlocking flight, even after introducing it in WoW. Yet again, they are simply being selective.
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Hm, you seem to focus on an idea so much that you are blindly dismissing credit where it is due. The location is the same, sure, but Draenor looks nothing like Outlands enough to call it a reskin, it was entirely remodeled and re-worked with changes so drastic that locations subtly hint at outlands but nothing more. It would be like saying that any forest-like area throughout the game is but a reskin of another forest like areas. It's a story of the same place at an entirely different time.
I get that you have beeg with the fact that you aren't exploring a whole new land, and that is fine, but give credit where credit is due, because keeping a theme and creating something entirely new from it doesn't amount to "the same thing aside from flight and fel energy."