11/05/2018 07:14 PMPosted by Därkmist11/05/2018 06:48 PMPosted by Mordritch...
Now say that without crying. Also, you could just use your ground mount in order to save your almighty immersion. But you know .... can’t have any logical thinking in these forums.
I enjoy flying as much as the next person. It makes farming so much more palatable. That being said I don't have to like what they do to understand why they do it amd accept their reasons as completely valid. How would you like it if you poured your soul into a project that took thousands of man hours to complete just to have someone ignore it. Flying made sense for BC, wrath, cata and Mop because of the terrain, but they have been designing away the NEED for flying since WoW and have made it strictly a convenience. The compromise is pathfinder.
I'm sure they were/are more than adequately compensated for those thousands of man hours in the forms of hefty $$ paychecks $$ they took/take home for the work they did/do. It's funny that you mention how all of the expansions before the current devs took the reigns were designed for flight. Why do you suppose these devs have been designing away the need for flying? Is it because they can't do it as well as the giants who came before them? Is it because it costs so much more to design with three axes?
I find it ludicrous that anyone buys the excuse of "immersion" (which is completely subjective) while Blizzard offers a way to pay to skip said "immersion" in the form of a boost. The "immersion" excuse is also debunked while flight paths, teleporters and flight whistles skip far more content than a player-controlled dragon does. At least in the latter case, the player is at the controls and still in the game.
Maybe not for you, but for me, flying is a hell of a lot more than just a convenience. It's FUN. I have spent numerous hours, effort, gold, and in some cases real life American dollars on my flying mounts, and I would LOVE to be able to use them in current content before I have finished said content.
The Pathfinder "compromise" wasn't a compromise. It was a passive-aggressive edict handed down from devs who were peeved and embarrassed at being spanked by the player base who revolted against their attempt to take away flying forevermore. How many forum threads did you see before WoD asking for the devs to take away flying? Aside from a small number of PvP gankers who complained about their targets being able to get away, there weren't any.
Who ASKED Blizzard to try and take away flying forever? No one. Who ASKED Blizzard to make flying a p.i.t.a. grind to get? No one. Blizzard did that all on their own, and if you think for one second that Pathfinder was a "compromise" with the players, you are sadly mislead. There may have been an internal "compromise" between devs, but PF was put in the game solely because of monetary reasons. I'm betting the suits in accounting told them to "fix it" and "fast"...otherwise, they would have stayed the course and we wouldn't have ANY kind of flight in the game at this point.