I never said they promised flight in 6.1 Where is your proof of this? Furthermore, I didn’t twist anything as I provided links to backup what I argued. I argued that they intended to have flight available for patch 6.1.
Gated flight was not a factor in Legion’s success. Legion was successful in spite of gated flight, just as the game has been successful in spite of continuously degrading and removing old content in order to force people to play it right.
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No. It’s not about semantics. It’s just a fact. Your acceptance of it is immaterial and does not change it.
It’s also also all easily done before the first raid opens too. Hence why they will not be going that route.
Because it’s a meaningless number. There were a lot of sub drops at the end of MoP. And then subs surged in WoD to the point the servers were unstable because Blizzard did not anticipate it.
Subscriptions come in waves. Lots of people cancel subscriptions at the end of an expansion and then renew it when the next x.0 patch is released.
You won’t have time. You’ll be too busy doing other, slower, more painful grinds 
Actually, people left because of the lack of content. Like the missing raid tier in between Blackrock Foundary and Hellfire Citadel.
So in other words, Vanilla WoW players?
What? I’m not talking about WoD’s sub drop. I’m talking about the major backlash Blizzard got when they announced there would be no flying in WoD.
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Did you leave WoD because of the missing raid tier? Because I definitely unsubbed from WoD because of the stupidity with flight.
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I know. I was just adding to your statement. Anti-PF folk like to think that there was this massive subscription drop after the flight announcement. There wasn’t. The largest drop was between Jan 1 and March 31, 2015. Two months before #NoFlyNoSub.
And I hardly believe the the 1.5 Million that unsub’d between April 1 and June 30th all left after Memorial Day over flying too.
Nope. I didn’t unsubscribe. Once they announced that flight would be kept, I was satisfied. Only time my account has not been subscribed since 2006 was when I had to cancel in order to change credit cards.
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Other popular MMO’s don’t have flying. It’s what kept me around. WoW’s content has been very disappointing for me since WoTLK with the exception of firelands. There’s nothing engaging about the grind to the final tier anymore for me.
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Quoted for truth!
People knew we weren’t getting flying for along time in Nov 2013 so they went into the xpac mad as hell. I think the no content just compounded it.
What was engaging about the grind to the final tier in wotlk?
I can’t think of a single thing that was noticeably different.
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TBH, I think flying on general was a mistake. As soon as flying is released, the current landmass of the expansion may as well be a flat round circle for all it matters.
That being said, I realize I am in the minority.
I wish I could find it because it was a great quote but Ghostcrawler said along time ago that flying was a can of worms that he regrets opening but knows it can’t be closed. I think that sums up flight perfectly.
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It’s not that bad. I have a lot of time to give my money to other game developers while I wait for the x.2 patch 
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All I know is I play more when I can fly. Once I can travel the shortest distance between A and B, I’ll start doing WQ’s and Emissaries again for war resources and azerite power.
I value my time more than Blizzard does and I won’t go running over hill and dale for pittance things but if I can fly easily to them I’ll do them.
That’s me though.
Exactly. The only thing out-of-the-blue was the sudden change from “We’re still talking about it” to “Nope. No flying from here on out”.
It didn’t exactly help that a blue said 6.1 would bring flight too.
Because Sub numbers aren’t what creates revenue and profit. It is much more complex.
Sub numbers are a marketing tool. Meant to create buzz, show non-players that they are missing something by not playing a game that ‘millions’ are playing. and so on…
This. Real ID. Jeez, that was a weird time.
Runner up for bad decisions: Med’an. An idea so bad, it got 404’d officially.
Yet, we got Calia, which is pretty stupid too, though.
/shrug
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Blizzard’s worst decision was trying to create expansions on a yearly basis… and then failing (I am staring at you WoD)!!
There’s still time for that conundrum to go either way.
…though it will probably be bad.