Yes and no. Video games are something that everyone enjoys of all ages. Could Blizzard go with cutting edge? Yes, they could, legally. However that is also bad for business given how widespread the hobby is. A lot of us have issues, esp as we age.
There is a good case to be made for making the majority of a game accessably and friendly for as wide a range of people as possible. That adding color blind options, spell lighting/flash adjustments, motion sickness adjustments, controller use, UI modifcations, text to speech, closed captions, etc are all GOOD.
There reaches a point though where you can’t make everything fit everyone in all instances. Trying is good though and if some X percent of the game is accessible that is good.
There are now motion sickness settings in game I think.
What are you talking about?
WoW is an 18 year old game.
Mechanics are going to change. That’s inevitable.
Certain mechanics are going to become easier, which will anger people and make them claim that WoW is being casualized.
Certain mechanics are going to become more difficult/complicated.
Both situations will anger people because humans tend to not like change.
I’m good at it, and it will be less terrible with all the talents. However I’d really prefer normal flying still, especially for constant mount and unmount short distance flying. It’s really clunky in tight spaces as well.
It’s fun for the races and over long distances, but for regular gameplay/questing, it’s just a headache for no reason.
I, um, leveled fishing instead? Heh. It is all about priorities I guess. Now that I know I can look it up and work on learning how to do the flight skill tree.
Tip on fishing to trade:
Level it fishing in the lava pools. It does not take long and gives you:
Salt you need for cooking
Lava beetles you need for cooking
Rare fire crafting mats
Rare fish
Coal
A LOT of grey vendor junk so have a vendor mount
Leveling fishing first while getting the salt and beetles is really really helpful. Those give you a bunch of early cooking points and generate mats you need later.
Yes and no. Video games are something that everyone enjoys of all ages. Could Blizzard go with cutting edge? Yes, they could, legally. However that is also bad for business given how widespread the hobby is. A lot of us have issues, esp as we age.
There is a good case to be made for making the majority of a game accessably and friendly for as wide a range of people as possible. That adding color blind options, spell lighting/flash adjustments, motion sickness adjustments, controller use, UI modifcations, text to speech, closed captions, etc are all GOOD.
There reaches a point though where you can’t make everything fit everyone in all instances. Trying is good though and if some X percent of the game is accessible that is good.
Oh, don’t get me wrong. Everyone should be able to enjoy WoW. I’m not arguing that Blizz shouldn’t strive to make that possible in all aspects of the game.
I am, however, saying that this shouldn’t be a major factor when designing mechanics like Dragon Flight. Keeping disabilities in mind while initially designing a mechanic like this would limit far too much. It’s up to the person with the disability, their hardware, and the accessibility development team to ensure that all aspects of the game can be played by people with disabilities.
WoW also has the unique instance of allowing very, very in-depth addons. These could also be leveraged to allow for further accessibility on the community’s side of things.
Once you start developing games worrying about if a disability will make it hard to deal with certain mechanics before that mechanic can be realized, you end up with a far worse experience than if you just designed the game first and then worked on the accessibility features.
doubt it. dragonriding is something i have wanted in the game since bc. i originally wanted it tied to regular flying but this is a compromise im willing to make since i still get the thing i wanted for what 16 years. in a week everyones going to be loving it even more. its a old but a classic “git gud”
So mechanics that some find fun should be prioritized over attempting to retain players. Those players of some unknown number should be considered expendable, especially if they are disabled or have difficulties that you knew they were going to have with this mechanic, but who needs them? Who cares about getting a reputation for being a videogame company that doesn’t want disabled players and goes out of its way to inconvenience them, when you’re sure they can get drugs from their doctor to make them normal like you, right?
It’s up to the person in a wheelchair to bring along attendants to carry them up stairs when the owner of the business decided to break the law by not having a ramp they could get up, right? Hey, who needs them anyway?
I’m typing this as I try to fight off a low because my T:Slim X2 misdelivered a large dose of insulin while trying to prevent a spike in my blood glucose levels because the Control IQ system is a lunk of junk.
I don’t understand why you are pushing this narrative when it’s clear that they would. Normal flying is not just coming back. If it does come back, mastering dragonriding will no doubt be a requirement. Probably placement on the dragon races ladder will be required. And since flying through hoops placed outside of my visual range at a high rate of speed is not fun at all, it’s just a good reason not to buy the expansion.
I’m not understanding. So you’re saying that diabetes is preventing you from playing a videogame designed to make it difficult for someone with limitations like you, and you think it’s fine that you should have to spend a great deal of money and research to overcome the difficulties built into the game.
You mean while I’m hurtling along so fast I can’t follow it with my vision I should also be watching weak auras?
I mean, even when they bring back normal flying it would be so much slower. People who take the time and learn master this new flying system will be speeding past you. Next thing people are going to ask normal flying should be as fast.
I mean i understand if you don’t like it and all that…but this new flying system is the expansion theme. So, like it or hate it. You might just got to wait for normal flying be unlock or skip this expansion.
I took my friend flying around and taught her how to do it and she loves it now. If you have trouble. Have a friend help you, and watch them.