Originally Posted by
rda
They added it as a compromise of "you do quests / explore content like we want you to the first few times to give the content justice, and then you can fly over it if you want" and then they made impossible to get flying until almost a year into the expansion. That tiny detail that they forgot to discuss during establishing "the compromise" kind of destroyed that compromise. Because sure, I am fine doing quests / exploring content on the ground the first few times, but the stupid time gate forces me to do this on the ground the first hundred times, which is, you know, a bit more.