Then hop off your flying mount and do whatever you want. Others can fly if they choose. Ever notice how people like you demand we experience the game the same way you do? It’s pathetic honestly. Don’t like flying? Then don’t effing do it. Simple.
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Icecrown is one of the best designed zones in WoW history. There is a sense of real danger down below, and participating in something grand with air ships flying above while you carry out missions throughout the zone is epic. The music and ambience puts it in the top five of total zone design easily.
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I really wish we had more weather in the game that have environmental effects. But seeing as how folks even complained about the SLs prelaunch snowstorm weather in Icecrown…I don’t think this community can handle more RPG.
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For me its the opposite. A lot of the WoTLK and BC zones that had a flying element, really immersed me into the zone. They just felt more vast, and full of options.
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Fortunately all of that danger is completely able to be avoided.
ToC was the worst raid tier I have ever seen, anyways. That combined with class design worse than anything we’ve had since…
Questing in icecrown was epic and felt like an all out war. It felt more like a war than most of Battle for Abilities or Boring shore/Argus.
In Icecrown you saw an army commanded by Arthas. Boring Shore was a few bats assaulting here and there and then Argus was a collection of huts for a so called “army”.
BlizZard went from making epic zones like Icecrown to boring zones like Argus.
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Impossible. The flying physics in this game engine are absolute trash. 2D game plane is buggy enough
Yup.
Grizzly Hills is a good zone example where you can just ride along and enjoy the scenery with your ground mount while soaking in the music.
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I think the problem is they dont know how to design around flying. I dont think they even tried, they just tunneled, the game is always better on foot and went from there. Thats my take on it anyway.
JUST DESIGN THE MAX LEVEL EXPERIENCE AROUND FLYING
Stop buying into the idea that flying is some overwhelming feature that needs a bandaid fix every expansion. Flying isn’t broken, Blizzard is just using it as a token way to extend content in a way that seems to have great player engagement despite adding zero creative effort to the experience.
Flying requirements have been a thing for how long now? It’s a feature at this point.
Blizzard isn’t ensuring player experience by limiting flying, they’re providing an arbitrary content hoop.
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That’s what YOU did. That’s not what I did. I actually explored the zones. I knew them just by landmarks. I don’t afk fly so don’t assume everyone does just because you do.
So you’re telling people what they did and didn’t do? This is rich.
Outright lie.
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Except that there isn’t because you never go down there and there aren’t zone hazards that would force you down. It’s just a pointless empty space. That’s what makes the zone so bland - tons of massive voids meant to take up your time because the zones are tuned with flying in mind.
It’s bad. It’s just friggin bad.
Indeed. How do these people not get this? I can only imagine these fine folk didn’t raid back then? It was a total joke. Even WoD had an actual raid with BRF. TOC… lol.
I am, yes.
Every single person that’s against flying is a hypocrite. They will fly the very second it’s available because they don’t actually find being on the ground fun.
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Why?
Is this game a flying simulator?
People (that barely do any content to begin with) are already complaining about content drought. Had we had flying from the beggining these complaints would’ve started two months ago.
Icecrown down below when explored is really cool actually and has a lot going for it.
That is one huge benefit of having stealth and being a Rogue!
What a stupid comment. Players will optimize the fun out of the game because that is what they will do. It is literally the job of the developer to force the player to have fun, because players will take short cuts that hurt their experience of having fun.
This is why no flying is better. It forces you to have fun.
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I had MUCH more fun in BC and wrath and I was flying the entire time.
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You’re a joke
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almost zero chance with the current dev team
they dislike how much flying cuts grind time, and grind time = more gold buying on the cash shop