Dungeons, Raids, BGs, Arena are what made WoW’s endgame back then and none of those are related to flying.
People don’t idolize old WoW because of flying. There are far more important things lost along the way that are related to meaningful content beyond daily quests.
You have no self awareness.
Flying doesn’t affect any of those things you listed. Why time gate it?
If someone wants to have the ground experience they can always choose a ground mount.
You seem to think that I’m in favor of pathfinder. I’m not. I can be against pathfinder as well as your reasons.
Legion and BFA are not well structured at all. Worst designed zones and story wise they are poor.
WoD had a better story structure and leveling process but the zone design was poor!
Patchfinder is the worst system ever created. So bad. Flying tomes for alts is more cost effective than the time invested doing patchfinder and waiting for patchfinder to unlock.
What problem do you have with my reasons?
I don’t believe anyone is going to quit due to pathfinder. It’s just illogical. Flying is just a small part of the game.
It’d be like quitting over Blizzard reducing mounted speed by 10%.
Then you don’t understand how important flying is to some people.
I don’t buy that it’s actually super important to anyone, the issue is merely exaggerated.
You honestly can’t understand why a feature of this game is that popular? Is it that you can’t understand or just refuse to understand?
Flying is a nice thing to have, but nobody is paying $15/month for it specifically. People pay $15/month for the actual content - the content which is unaffected by flying.
Belief is not required. Reality will suffice - people can and do quit over lack of flying. It’s the reason why Pathfinder was even implemented in the first place, after the mass exodus caused by Blizzard’s “no more flying” stunt in WoD.
The reality that people are overblowing this? Sure, I accept that.
The problem is Blizz thinks doing patchfinder to unlock flying is “content”. That is the big problem.
Flying is a core feature of WoW given how they design zones, and should never have been treated like a reward.
People being right or wrong in their choice to quit doesn’t change the fact that they’ve quit.
That’s neither here nor there. I was referring to what the playerbase plays for.
People quitting isn’t due to flying. The sub decline started in late Wrath and Cata, both of which had flying.
There are more reasons for people to quit than flying, yes. Still doesn’t change the fact that people quit over flying. I’m kind of surprised that you are even trying to deny it. Is it because you don’t like that they do?
The reversal of no flying forever is due to the 2nd biggest sub decline since realID.
So you’re assuming when someone says flying is important that they mount up just for the sole purpose to fly without any goal in mind?
Then once you do…Guess what!
You get to do even MORE world quests for your world quests!
In all seriousness, why is flying even such an issue? Outside of harvesting/accumulating materials (which is really important mind you, I’m not discounting that), what is it purpose other than that and getting somewhere quicker?
Sit back…relax and enjoy looking all the coral formations in Nazjatar…or the waterfalls in Dazar’alor. It’s the little things…
And those are the reason people quit. The reason that actually matter rather than “a slight inconvenience”.
What?
Source? Or are we just going by head canon?