Dev Interview - No More Flying, May 22 Hotfixes, Blue Tweets, WoW Marathon Record

[Sanguinerd]

I'm just going to leave this here. The Dev Team definitely hasn't doubled: http://seekingalpha.com/article/3186...p-for-a-tumble

Can't stomach reading all of it but; In the long run, what will make or break the company is quality games, not a billion dollar marketing budget. Is pretty much spot on.

Also, WHERE is this savage and dangerous world they keep droning on about? Getting anywhere in Frostfire, Gorgrond or Spires is pretty damn annoying and the FPs don't really help. It doesn't feel dangerous what-so-ever. I don't really care either way but their reasons for no flying are just so darn irritating to read.

Why the hell is the WoD CE mount a FLYING mount? Did they even think about this? I just...

[Deleted]

WTF, They completely ignore what people would like to see in the game.

My whole guild (more than 40+ players are online at peak) would like to use the flying mounts again... They destroy their own game. I want to speak one of their shareholders, because these ret*** developers drop out their money!

I hope EU, NA Black Desert realese will hit them in the face as hard as it can.

One of the unique things about WoW was the free flying. If we compare that to other MMO-s.

[Chromeshellking]

Here is my thing, I get why they want you to dive into the content and being an integral part of it. But after eight months to much later the content is no longer fresh and becomes not just stale but ungodly repetitive to do on other characters.

Yes, it was nice seeing shadowmoon before the destruction, yes it was nice to see gaints and ogron. I would have hoped that flying would be tied to your legendary ring but as they will not be adding it at all is kinda lame. I sorta fly with the feather I got but it lacks the control I had before. Instead of really trying to understand the why's and why not it seems blizzard would rather just remove something entirely. Should flying also be removed from older content to make it an "experience" again?

I guess for me what really "grinds my gears" is they try to market how awesome the game is, instead of actually making the game awesome. With flying gone I kinda have less drive or reason play but that is me.

[Spirthealer]

Well.....huh. I do hope they offer a revamp for archaeology if that is the case. Because right now, without flying, it's one of the most painful and pointless wastes of time imaginable. AFK flightpath - ride around - reach target area, slog through mobs for 8-10 minutes - ride back to flightpath - afk flight, rinse, repeat.

There was already talk from blizzard they want to stop adding onto archaeology and what we have now is all we may see. Next X-pack would see it never come over to that new areas. Blizzard said they want to not keep working on new things that add just it be a X-pack thing. which means then saving money and time.

[Deleted]

Wonder what they are going to destroy or remove next.

My thoughts: they will remove pvp seasons next since they cant be bothered with pvp aswell.

[Deleted]

Wonder what they are going to destroy or remove next.

Only one raid/exp and the drops' itemlevel of the bosses will be increased from time to time until the end of the expansion and maybe one more difficulty after Mythic, the "Pink-Pony with T-rex".

[Serissa]

after much deliberation, we came to the conclusion that the world of Draenor would simply no longer provide the experience we envisioned it if we were to reintroduce flight in this expansion.

Pfff who cares there's no content in WOD beside raids and garrison anyway.

[Mekh]

So they finally had the courage to come forward. Good for them. And good riddance to flying.

[Serissa]

And good riddance to flying.

2 next quarter reports will show if it's good or not

[hipno94]

Really? No flying? Ever? WOW! So basically, because there's no flying my draenor expierience is sitting in my garrisson all the time, and doing old content. Exploring Draenor was fun when I was leveling up, but now, I'm sick of it, I just want to get enywhere I want, without watching tutorials how to get somewhere, because the paths are retarded. I don't understand this decision, and I probably never will. Adding flying in TBC was awesome idea, and I don't see any point in taking this back.

[Chromeshellking]

Really? No flying? Ever? WOW! So basically, because there's no flying my draenor expierience is sitting in my garrisson all the time, and doing old content. Exploring Draenor was fun when I was leveling up, but now, I'm sick of it, I just want to get enywhere I want, without watching tutorials how to get somewhere, because the paths are retarded. I don't understand this decision, and I probably never will. Adding flying in TBC was awesome idea, and I don't see any point in taking this back.

I did kinda chuckle though BC had flying added, and then this one kills it!

[InfinityRogue]

This game is a fucking joke. I have raided hard core for 8 years. I left and play ff14 and havent looked back. WoW is dead, boys.

[Idletime]

I personally would like to thank Blizz for putting the gun in their own mouth and pulling the trigger. Anyone who shows up to Blizzcon this year and is supporting WoW should immediately be hauled off for mental testing. This team of developers has been (Since their announcement after TBC) the worst group of human beings ever to populate the gaming universe, each of them should get jobs shoveling horse manure in 3rd world countries and never be allowed back into the US.

[Bogrim]

I will celebrate this decision by continuing to have my account frozen after I cancelled my subscription.

[Mekh]

2 next quarter reports will show if it's good or not

Whoever is leaving over some mode of transportation - a medium, that's merely meant to connect the points of interest in the game, not a POI itself - was on his way out already. These are game devs. It's naive to think they don't know ways from keeping you out of certain areas either way.

I remember a similar debate many years ago, when some people argued that WoW was better than Guild Wars (1) simply because WoW allowed jumping. Meanwhile both games allowed you to venture precisely as far as the game devs decided to let you.

[Kryn]

Why is so hard to just allow it back once max level is hit like in MOP!? You'd still see the ground content why leveling up and when you hit max you can still see it when you have to land! Pffft...to make up for it Blizz will probably just toss more items like Avenia's Feather in the game.

Can't use your real flying mounts but here's a substitute to help you out.

[morph4037]

Meh, I won't be buying further expansions.

I'll just be biding my time with tokens until the gold runs out or the expansion hits. As is I barely log on anymore anyways, only like 1-2 days a week just to run lfr with a friend.

[Carighan]

Yes! Finally! Way way too late, but better seriously too late than never at all. Should have removed it after the experiment in TBC didn't work.

[Deleted]

If they had not removed fly from WoD, we would have far less whiny comment here. That's my real pain.

TBC had already showed us flying feature was a bad thing, look at those sub numbers!

[Buu]

"We will see how the no-flight plays out."
After 3 million players left, the vanity pet trainers aren't faced daily as it was in MoP, the Apexis Daily is emptied more and more, archaeology is abandoned, I seriously doubt they are seeing anything but pr0n, on their screens.