Is pathfinder starting to get old?

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Legitimate question. i never saw the point of it to be honest. especially now with the ability to trade in wow tokens for gold.

Path 1: forcing immersion for optional immersion through quests and exploration.
path 2: optional immersion for the price of lots of gold.

I go for path 2. if you got time and enjoy doing the pathfinder, cool. but can we at least get an option to pay for the ability to fly like the old days?
:star::mage:

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What we have is a compromise.

One group wants no flying ever.
Another group wants flying all the time.

So we get this halfway-truce-thing instead.

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Or people who don’t want to fly can simply not fly and we can play the game as we want.

Too much of the game is this forcing us to play how we ‘should’ be playing it.

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Blizzard wants no flying ever.

The players want flying at max level immediately.

Pathfinder would be better received if it wasn’t artificially time gated for 1.5 years

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Yeah… there’s no reason to do flying for 8.2, synced with the release of a new no-fly zone.

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No, I’m quite fine with the way it is.

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It’s not really that simple though.

I get that there’s a group that wants flying… and wants to claim they speak for all the players.

… but it’s not that simple.

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Pretty sure it got old exactly 59 seconds after it was announced at the end of wod. Was it released during Christmas or something? I barely even remember it.

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No its been old for awhile now.

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So have fly and no fly zones at launch like we had in Wrath. I think people are fine with max level no fly zones like timeless isle. But just having a year+ time gate for no reason is dumb

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Well, dumb would imply it happens by accident or mistake.

The timing of flying/pathfinder is 100% intentional.

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Idk if Pathfinder is getting old or not as they have yet to release part 2.

Part 1’s been done for over a month now. Still waiting… waiting… feels like I’m gonna die of old age before it’s released.

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I like Pathfinder but we should have it unlocked for our 120 alts In Dec and then unlocked for the rest next year.

The artificial delay on flying is sickening at this point though.

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You can get pathfinder playing 15 minutes per day. If I can get pathfinder working 60 hours a week and going to college full time, you can too.

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Absolutely spot on.

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allow me to explain through my understanding.
getting gold requires money or effort.
getting path finder achievement requires effort.

Id rather do things that i enjoy to get gold (Or pay 20$) than feel forced or dragged into doing quests/achieves i care nothing about. after all! a game is supposed to be fun!
:star::mage:

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No one’s forcing you to get pathfinder. If you want it you have to work for it.

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A game is meant to be fun as decided by the dev not the consumer.
If you don’t find It fun don’t play.

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i am working for it, but doing the work through a fun way. there is no point in gating a immersion through a work load when it can be fun.

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Right. It is one of the many “carrot on a stick” design choices Blizzard has gone with lately. Eventually people will get tired of waiting for or chasing the carrot though.

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