I play on one of the highest pop realms and almost everyone has flying. Fake statistics.
The post was also made in August, so it’s completely irrelevant now.
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Ouch. I didn’t check the date.
You can only play the content for about an hour than it becomes time gated and your not “ allowed “ to progress your reputation any further because of artificial reasons. So no this is the opposite of playing the game.
What? There were not enough threads complaining about pathfinder that you felt the need to necro up a 4 month old thread?
Its cool, people still complain about it anyway; The statistic would just be somewhat off now.
I always get a kick out of “… shouldn’t have to do content I don’t do”, which is often the argument of posters who don’t like Pathfinder. Yeah, you should if you want to fly.
That would be like me saying, “Shouldn’t have to raid or do mythic + whatever, for the best gear.” If I want the best gear, I would have to do that junk.
Also, if it is content they “… don’t do”, then why do they need flying so much? Flying really only helps if you are going all over the map, doing World Quests for rep and junk. So if you don’t care about that content… ? I mean, if you live in mythic +, or raids, do you need flying AT ALL? I don’t do that stuff, so I’m asking. It seems to me flight paths and the flight whistle would cover it.
No, you cannot count the entire questline for Mechagon as Operation Mechagon’s completion criteria. That stat you listed is heavily skewed in the wrong direction, I have over 8 characters that have done Operation Mechagon, only one has the achievement, and that’s me playing casually. Revered with Mechagon isn’t on people’s priority list since the DPS essence isn’t really good for a lot of people.
I think a lot of people disagree with this sentiment, Azshara was a very easy AOTC, it was basically a tank and spank, anything that can be solved with more DPS like Argus, is generally going to have a higher rate.
Nazjatar “participation” is harder to gauge than everybody is making it out to be. Just because someone didn’t max out all their followers, hunt down every rare, doesn’t mean they didn’t play the zone to get their rank 3 memory of lucid dreams and then stop. While I hated Nazjatar (especially the random rewards per character dailies, so if you tried to do dailies with friends, there would be different rewards for each of you, whoever thought of this needs to be removed, immediately), the metrics you guys are trying to use are not accurate.
All in all, flying is not a way to gauge player participation. Some people just don’t care about flying, they care about dungeons and raiding, of which flying is irrelevant. Just like some people do not care about dailies, and some people don’t care about dungeons.
The data is never 100% on public opinion tho.
Not everyone who did Pathfinder found it enjoyable, and not everyone who does not finish Pathfinder are happy with not finishing it.
Some of us hate doing game play that isn’t there for enjoyment but extending metrics because the design team can’t do anything better for more engaging game play options to keep people playing. After doing pathfinder in Legion, that’s all that crap really is.
37% is actually a pretty decent percentage for any single achievement that requires all those different categories checked. That is a higher % than I would have thought.
Im a filthy casual. I barely raided. I logged in, did a couple WQ’s and logged out.
I’ve had flying unlocked for months.
If a student were to complain to a teacher that they REFUSED to read an assigned book, simply because it had too many pages and was boring, the teacher would laugh in the students face.
The teacher would then go on to explain to the student that this is required reading for the school curriculum, and literally every other student before them has had to do it.
The student will start sighing melodramatically and wringing their hands, desperate to come up with some sort of excuse to get them out of reading the book. They will suddenly develop a “learning dissability” or their dog will eat their copy of the book.
They will kick, and scream, and cry and beg and try to do anything they can to not have to do what everyone else has had to do. In the end, they will have spent MORE energy trying not to do the thing than it would have taken to actually do the thing.
And in the mean time, all their fellow students have been plugging along, page by page, chapter by chapter, till the assignment is done. And they are still at the beginning, kicking and crying that they still have the whole book to read.
And the teacher laughs.
And the student’s peers laugh.
And they point.
How does it feel to be that student? (points and laughs)
Hmm 6 posts, condescending tone, defending a wildly unpopular game mechanic…yea I know what you are.
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How bout now? this is my main. The sentiment remains, as do the facts:
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Im a casual and it took me 8 weeks of laid back grinding to unlock flying, which I have had unlocked for months.
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It’s 39 degrees in Seattle
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Pathfinder is part of the game for several years now
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You are entitled for complaining about having to do something everyone else does.
This is a videogame not a remembering of your traumatic education experience.
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How can anyone not have pathfinder part 2 yet?
That isnt what entitlement means.
Just because everryonr elde has to do it does not make it right by any mesns or remove the right to complain about it…
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Most arent interested in grinding the rep.
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Entitlement isn’t believing you don’t have to do Pathfinder even though everyone else has to do it.
Entitlement is making a social statement about forcing people to live in what they view as a corrupt system of video game rules while a perfectly good real one is so soooo much worse.
You don’t want to work for something you feel you deserve, when the laws of the land have already said that you havent earned it. Its not the literal definition of entitlement, but it’s really bloody close.
Call people entitled, they’ll still quit. Nobody cares how you redefine their behavior.
Maybe Blizzard hasn’t learned that yet either since they apparently share your viewpoint of their customers as naughty students.
Blizzard: “Take your lumps and do your homework, children!”
Customers, who are mostly working adults: “Pass!” Get up from computers and close wallets
Blizzard: “NANI!?”
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These are all approximation regardless of how thorough the representation. I have PF and 12x120s so that means I’m represented 12 times in the statistic. We don’t know what percent of accounts have PF.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, it’s not entitlement to have a dissenting opinion.