You are right, every adult has a right to enjoy the game. Most adults figure things out for themselves and don’t force others into feeling sorry for them because of X thing. If you can’t fly, you don’t need to be playing. i don’t care whatever ‘est’ this is. Its just the truth lol.
there are perks to normal flying. Afk flying for example. point and autorun and then tab out to do something else, but you miss everything in there. Hovering is another perk of old flying. Lastly, getting to high up places easily. I could see people using regular mount to get to the tallest area and then using dragonriding to come down. It certainly would be easier to explore.
I think perhaps a day lock on something like that would be best. in settings you can toggle on or off dragon riding. To change it back you have to wait a day, maybe during that time dragon riding glyphs arent availabe or something like that. What do you think?
The only other thing i would want is a way to have folks not hover in valdraken (thats a smaller thing, but i think it would take away from the feeling of the city)
just put that one on ignore. He aint worth your time. Just in here seeking attention
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This doesn’t affect gameplay or anyone who uses DR.
There’s seven billion places to land near the same spots people would hover. They left open a crap ton of places for this wirh DR. Also doesn’t affect gameplay or DR.
You get there faster with DR and if you don’t, you’re doing it wrong. It also doesn’t affect gameplay or DR.
Normal flying will never be able to get glyphs or DR perks or anything to do with DR.
I think it’s highly unnecessary.
Didn’t know being old stopped you from adapting. Hell, some people in my family are very sick and they’re trying their hardest to adapt to whatever.
Sounds like excuses to me tbh. I don’t understand why you’re trying to shame the dude too. Also, let’s not forget the issue here is DR, something that can be done with 1-2 and a few buttons. Regular combat has a dozen of keybinds and it’s freaking chaotic, nobody is here crying to get some accommodation yet we’re flooded with DR complaints. The thing I see as legit complaint is motion sickness, that’s a thing you can really adapt to. The rest is w/e honestly.
Not me, Im young but I still feel for the older people who can’t adapt to the DF system ort get motion sickness which affects all ages. Your very one-minded about this thought so you’d never understand, Im just more open minded to other views and possibilities and thats such a rare trait nowadays.
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Check out my possible fixes: How to reduce nausea while Dragon Flying
Not asking for a change. If you like Dragon Flying please continue to use it. For others, they ask for regular flying to be added at some point like ALL of the last expansions through Pathfinder.
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You’re very one-minded about people who choose not to adapt, it’s not that they can’t. They just don’t want to put any effort in. Completely different from people that literally can’t (ex: motion sickness)
I would have to say that I’m not a huge fan of having to reach for the mouse (I keyboard turn, sue me) every time I mount up now.
I mean, okay, I ‘get’ it, that it’d be hard to do without the mouse, but I also don’t like how you have to hold down the RMB.
Maybe the game could sort of enter an auto-look state whenever you are dragonflying? Like, remove the need to hold the RMB down so you can just mouse look and your mount follows your mouse movement as if you had RMB pressed even though you don’t?
Like, the game knows you’re either dragonflying or you’re not dragonflying, it’s a 0 or 1 thing and they could just go “if dragonflying, turn auto mouse move on” or something.
Obviously, make this a toggle, for the people that prefer to need to hold down the RMB (tho I dunno why you’d want to have to do that while dragonflying).
EDIT: Here’s another option: maybe make an optional mode that when you mount any dragonflying mount, if it is airborne, the arrow keys (or WASD) control pitch and yaw, for those who don’t like having to steer with the mouse. Now obviously, arrow keys would be a bit slower turning and cumbersome, but for people who aren’t good at using a mouse for disability reasons might be able to use the arrow keys better.
EDIT2: I kinda wish they had done that from the beginning, because dragonflight seems to want to implement realistic flight controls, but being able to pitch straight up, and then straight down within a split second is ridiculous. You can change pitch and heading in a split second with the mouse, dragons should have an actual turn radius, and how fast they can pitch up or down, like a real-life aircraft.
Some people will never adapt and that’s fine honestly. You can’t force change.
That’s their problem then. If you don’t want to, don’t complain and try to get others to accommodate you.
The thing is, though, that people like the OP talks about, do have reasons to complain and it isn’t really fair that the game asks them to do something that is very difficult to nigh impossible because of a physical disability, where the game never needed that in the past.
I think such conversation is valid, because we can brainstorm ideas that might help the OP rather than going “pfft, guess you can’t play WoW anymore then, just deal with it” …
That’s why I took the route I did, to suggest possible ideas that might not only help the OP but also others who are having trouble, disability or no.
He’s… 80. Give the man a break.
IS it my fault that he’s 80 and still trying to play games? Last time i checked, when people get older, you take the keys away at some point. Same thing with hobbies.
There’s not very many hobbies an 80 year old can really do.
My 67 year old mom played WoW up until Shadowlands, she quit because she didn’t like the storyline.
Why was she playing WoW? Because she has low bone density which makes any sort of physical activity hard for her.
Video games are the perfect hobby for older people, but sadly most developers don’t seem to understand and they want to make everything difficult and hardcore, or you have games like WoW which a casual CAN play but then they add in something like dragonriding and they forget that not everybody is good at using mouse and keyboard together. 99% of WoW doesn’t require Mouse+Keyboard at all, and anything that you can do solo or with the RDF can be done with keyboard turning just fine, but suddenly, now there’s dragonriding and there are ways they could have made the system more accessible to people with disabilities who had been playing WoW for years.
It’s kinda a massive oversight to be honest. There are things they could have, or still can, do to improve this for such people, and also for people who just don’t like using keyboard+mouse simultaneously for whatever reason.
Taking such a callous attitude, though, is never constructive whatsoever. That’s kinda like saying that colorblind people shouldn’t bother, rather than doing the right thing and adding colorblindness settings like WoW wound up doing eventually.
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No, because color-blind people use the colorblind settings. People with 1 arm use different mice, peddles, key binds etc. it’s just a little subgroup of people here on the forums crying because they don’t want to try and fix things for themselves. I’m also not being callous, I’m being a realist. We can’t make everyone happy, and that sucks, but it’s life. There is a solution for all the crying. However, in every thread it boils down to “i just don’t like it, i want old flying back” then leave.
1). I specifically said “WoW eventually added colorblind settings” to point out that instead of being callous, we should try and offer solutions by using an example of feedback causing positive change in the game. The devs were alerted to the problems colorblind people face because colorblind people said “hey, what about us?” …
2). I specifically stated earlier in the thread, a few work-arounds that COULD work for people that didn’t involve “give old flying back”.
I agree that “giving old flying back” is not going to work. However, that doesn’t mean that we can’t do other things to help these people, and we should be open to the idea of suggesting work-arounds that can work.
EZ flying hasn’t been made available at the start of an expansion since MOP ten years ago. It’s safe to say that will continue. The sooner you folks understand this the happier you will be.
I got wrist problems from doing torghast. I stopped doing torghast, which probably didn’t help their participation numbers. Somebody who didn’t do torghast was limited in the type of content they could do.
Not sure why you, a level 12 with only 16 posts, are mocking the disabled.
How will forcing out people who can’t adapt current settings to make the game playable for them be “happier” if they no longer are able to play because of this intentional design change?
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