Oh Ion.... You are completely clueless.
Oh Ion.... You are completely clueless.
Wow already feels freaking huge, it doesn't need to feel bigger. That's why people want portals.
We see your concerns, but fuck you. Enjoy the patch. Like a broken record.
This pretty much.
The whole "But the world will feel bigger" argument only matter if, and I know this is crazy talk, the world actually has something to do in it (for max level). A giant, empty world that we're just flying over is nothing but a boring chore; a chance to afk, tab out and go to the bathroom, get a drink, check a website, etc. It does absolutely nothing for game play.
here's the irony, there wouldn't need to be so many portals if they actually connected the world together instead of it all being separate instanced zones, like how northrend is one giant zone unreachable by anything other than the boat/portal system, or how azuremyst/bloodmyst/quel'thalas are all located in outland (the actual locations have since been zoned off by invisible walls and you can no longer go to them via the 'twisting nether'), alternate draenor is like northrend of pandaria, they are just massive sub zones that can't be reached by any other means than teleportation nodes or boats, each and every single major land mass is its' own microcosm and they are trying to make it so that no longer is the case but it will never be due the fact that they are always separate from everything else.
New Portal Rooms coming with 8.1.5 has this issue for a while.
Because they come with a lot of old portals being removed.
Blizzard posts a lot of "explanations" about it, but they're just:
TL;DR: Trying to justify an unwelcome change...
Instead, why can't you find a middle ground? Old portals didn't make anyone as good as a Mage when going around, new art is really good, why not make it a good change too?
It's really so hard to understand Blizzard sometimes. Why keep shooting your own foot, man?
...Well, at least that's a nice BM buff :b
Honestly if portals being removed is enough for you to quit the game then you were probably just looking for a reason to quit wow anyway lol. Don't get me wrong, it's annoying, but most people are making a way bigger deal out of it than it really is.
I'm now thinking that the people who said that this was just another method of Blizzard artificially extending play time to stretch subscriptions further were spot-on. I feel sorry for the devs who have to remove stuff like this from game and also have respond to the community with lawyer-talk like this to justify the removal or risk losing their jobs. This is despite always making a profit but their corporate overlords always want to make more profit so they'll try any little greedy trick they can.
There are better things they can do but they choose to go a step backwards instead by removing useful functions we all grew accustomed to and instead of actually making the world bigger for people it will further pigeonhole players into one spot.
Warlock soloing https://www.youtube.com/user/Firedemon012 (old & abandoned)
I'm looking at my warlock bars at the moment. Where is my transport?
I expected them to do this for a while, they've done it before, frankly I've never agreed with the thinking behind it. It's a minor convenience and removing most of these portals adds nothing other than a smaller range of locations most people will bind their hearth.
I do agree that the Cleft of Shadows was a mess though. Not opposed to cleaning that up.
I mean, that's pretty painfully obvious at this point. Just as the loot changes to legacy raid now make it a pain to get certain items (like old tier gear, which is no longer guaranteed drops; 5 weeks and counting with 0 tier chests from Kael'thas, heck I got Ashes of Al'ar and no tier token let alone the right one), or just how the leveling changes that were meant for scaling "coincidentally" also adjusted XP values in ways that vastly increased leveling time (though they did revert some of those).
Their reasoning is contrived. Me now having to fly more to do Angler dailies or whatever other old content there is doesn't make the world feel "more alive". It makes me AFK more. In fact, it might even make me NOT do certain content because I think to myself do I really want to invest an extra 10 minutes into this.
This has no mechanical reason and does little other than increase tedium.
Yeah because BM needs buffs...
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