General Consensus on 8.1.5?

[Karat-anubarak (Karat)]

@Genegerbread-dalaran

The world isn’t “more open” as Blizzard is trying to tell us.

The last I saw, their goal with removing portals was to encourage player interaction.

@Kaivax

With new expansions, we’ve made a tradition of removing some of the portals from the previous expansion’s cities. The goal with that is to encourage transportation flow through newer places where players are more likely to interact with other players. We neglected to do that initially following Legion (and we never did that following Mists of Pandaria for various reasons), but we feel that we should have. We’re correcting that now.