This could not be a more brain-dead take as cell phones ADDED features, whereas dragon riding is just a nerfed form of flying and takes away features.
A more accurate analogy would be static flying is like a landline and dragon riding is the old telegraph system.
The majority disagree, you and those that just hate on it unreasonable are the only ones that think so.
All they have to do is add regular flying to dragonland zones and watch what people choose. I know for certain most folks would choose static flying.
It would take hardly any work on their part, thatâs how it is easy to infer they are going to remove static flying. I canât believe I got suckered into a 6-month sub.
They are masters of bait and switch. I know that after 2 decades. Somehow for a short time there, it looked like they were really changing. The tone of the developers improved and we were getting comments. Now the real blizz has removed itâs facade and here we are again. Same old same old.
And despite the doomsaying about old flying being removed that has been repeated ad naseum, they have said old flying is coming, and old flying has a choice option in the dragonriding in old world, not just dragonriding, so the obvious answer is that is as said, doomsaying.
As to the number that will choose one or the other, there we will agree to disagree, however I do agree it will be highly interesting to confirm which is the majority if we can get actual numbers.
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Yes I remember when I could dismount other people just passing through them with my flying mount.
Ohh and when I could teleport back to a old location, or when I could go above 310% speed, or mining without dismounting, or when it got shield for flying or disoriented people when landing, all in basic flying for sure
Incorrect, some data miners saw a few files, then blizz responded that: [quote=âGreyton, post:49, topic:1596833, username:Greyton-1292â]
but that feature will not be complete or featured in the live game until later in Dragonflight.
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How many bait and switch tactics are we going to fall for? Now all they have to do is through a few âleakedâ files, make folks think new features are coming and when they cut the content they can use this same excuse.
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/feedback-kalimdor-cup/1596833/49
It could have been. That would have been really cool if they added that to static flying.
Yes, dragonriding outside of dragon isles wonât be completed as soon as people thought because of datamining, that does not change the fact static/old flying was a choice that was there, and will remain there, as there is no indicatation whatsoever old flying is being removed as is being tried to be claimed.
They have said in interviews and articles that old flight is coming back, the above confirmed that intention even if the dragonriding outside of dragon isles feature that shows it wonât be available as soon as expected.
There is multiple places old flying is coming back has been said, there is absolutely nowhere outside of doomsayers saying otherwise.
Itâs easy to infer if it takes less work to add static flying to dragon lands, but instead, they take a convoluted route to implement dragon riding everywhere first, after years of this sort of lying, Iâm not buying it. Itâs just another bait-and-switch trick.
In the end, the final excuse will be it was technically not possible. You know kind of like the ability to plant your garrison anywhere, but then, well you might not have played as long.
I have played since BC, and turning a switch on to make old flying available in Dragon Isles is not even the most vaguely remotely comparable to a âtechnically not possibleâ as the implementation of creating a base in multiple places around a continent instead of having one spot.
One is changing a flag, the other is a large amount of work for developers (and yes I was disappointed that was reneged on also, but the comparison is utterly ridiculous)
How so both events said one thing and in the end became something else. This will be no different. I guess you are more tolerant than I am when the product I paid for is inferior to what was sold.
âswoop from the skies and destroy your enemiesâ whoops you canât fly.
Because your trying to compare what is adding a large amount of more work to a new feature, to simply turning on a feature that works in the new area already but just is turned off currently, as such the comparison is ridiculous.
That said, the point you were trying to make is understood.
Which we can, agreeing to disagree on which is the majority aside, anyone can fly from day 1, even if it isnât the method they prefer to.
And as said before, Blizzard has said in multiple places old flying will return for those that prefer that, and has never said it will not.
And ever since pathfinder, flying has never been available until the .2 patch anyway (which the exception of Shadowlands, but as the .1 patch took so bloody long to come it arrived at the same time a .2 patch would have, and there was no .3 it basically was a .2 they skipped the .1 on), we wouldnât be old flying until the .2 anyway which hasnât come yet.
Except they know what happened last time they openly said we are removing flying. The industry record for the most subs lost in the shortest period of time and that was over 10 years ago. Wow never recovered.
I seriously doubt they would announce that again beforehand. Hence my opinion is that they are planning on removing static flying. Itâs also why the data-miners evoked a response from a blizz dev.
It was damage control so other folks and content creators wouldnât come to the same conclusion I have. What blizz says and what they do can be 2 very different things.
It could but it wasnât. So it did in fact added features.
There I would also need to disagree, I donât see them ever permanently removing old flying (delaying until later yes, removing no), especially since a significant number have voiced concerns over Dragonriding, be it medical reasons, or just plain donât like it.
But there the only thing that can be done is wait and see which will be the case, for those that want old flight, I hope that I am correct.
No, it created an entirely new vehicle that has those features. Dragon Riding is not static flying. Hence itâs called dragonâridingâ not dragonâflyingâ.
Still flying it still add features itâs still a improvement
Itâs not even semantics here. You have an opinion that losing the ability to hover makes dragon riding an improvement. I disagree. The 2 vehicles are so different that anyone could be of either opinion.
I never said that loosing the ability makes it better, feel free to quote me on that.
I said itâs still flying thatâs a fact, and I listed all the improvement and added features that makes it better and a improvement.
Well it wasnât what people wanted or was looking for cause dragonflight sold worse than some of the worst expansions ever that people claim