Stop being so in tune with the negative news you hear. This game is a source of getting away from the negativity that goes on with the “real world”. I come on wow to escape “doomsday” people that are full of gloom and despair…you remind me of the 2nd boss in soo…lol…so what so many players play wow…the people that are playing wow are having their own fun…let it be and move on…stop overanalyzing it…it won’t lead to a happy experience in a game you should play in moderation if you feel too uncomfortable about it…maybe you are taking things way too seriously and need to chill out and think about the players that log on everyday and have a great time playing this game…think of the positive…positive is powerful (yes my high schools billboard even says this)
Correlation is not causation, and for all of this catering to casuals many casuals don’t seem particularly pleased, either.
The game lost an absolutely massive number of subscribers well prior to BFA
and there are a variety of issues you didn’t mention that undoubtedly play some roll in declining player interest, including but not limited to: time-gating; the discontinuity created by sharding; cut-and-paste content; long-running, escalating frustrations with recurring class “development” decisions; the sense that “fun was detected” (particularly with toys); a design philosophy that introduces time-gated allied races as a primary selling point; the removal of tier sets; an expansion theme many people simply don’t find compelling; the widespread sense that the company has for several expansions now simply not listened to its player base, even in something as critical as Alpha testing and the PTR.
I see a decline from many and recurring cuts, punctuated by major decisions.
They have been.
Your psychic powers are amazing.
I agree that they’re no different. But that’s why I’m saying that the addition of flying doesn’t change anything about the game, or even begin to address the problems with it. Unsatisfying content doesn’t become satisfying content because you reduce the time it takes to arrive.
I agree, non flying is dumb. like after one patch, our mounts “learn” to fly …. like they don’t know how now? realllllly??
I agree my little friend.
Yes, they did have to recode it, because at the beginning they did not intend to have flight going forward. So why would they bother to waste their time coding the continent for flight at the outset? When they got called on the carpet for their stupidity(and yes it was a stupid decision) and told to add flight, naturally it took them some time to do it, that extra time was due to their own foolishness.
Also, I am not an employee of ActiBlizz, so showing you as you asked is not only impossible, but a foolish demand.
Now, I am sure they encode all new expacs for flight, knowing that if they get rid of it completely, they will lose more subs than they can afford to. However, they hold it out till near the end of each expac with their pathfinder 2 nonsense, effectively removing flight in all current content going forward. Not removing it completely, of course, but effectively making it a carrot on a stick in an effort to keep people subbed and, I’d be willing to bet real money on this, to soothe their bruised egos for the backside kicking they took trying to remove flight altogether.
The pathfinder achievement should be added, in full, at the beginning of every expansion, no ifs, ands or buts about it. Adding a part two that is unavailable to complete until the tail end of the current expac is revenge for getting their backsides tanned in WoD.
Yes, it is revenge.
At this point, there is nothing that the dev team, or ActiBlizz or, anyone else for that matter, can do or say to convince me otherwise. It’s not something I think, it’s something I believe. I know revenge when I see it, none better. The dev team got spanked hard in WoD for their stupidity, they got their feelings hurt and now they want payback. They’re going to keep getting it every expac until they run off enough of the pro-flight crowd that they’ll be an “insignificant minority” and then the dev team will finally get rid of flight like they wanted. Search my post history for any further explanations on the flight issue, there are a few dozen of just my own.
Semper Fi! ![:us:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/us.png?v=6" ":us:")
What I think is being overlooked is we expressed concerns about all of this in alpha and beta (it’s arguable if the game is still in beta [that’s a whole other thread]). Things went live. Very little has changed in the interim.
What this tells me is they are happy with the game. The game is currently “working as intended”. And this is the game they “wanted” to make. So don’t look for massive changes.
At which point we should all do as your friends have done and abandon ship. As all focus going forward is on their “mobile initiatives”. So we should probably look into getting one of those phones everyone seems to be talking about. I’m certainly putting wow on the back burner, and maybe completely shelving it. Sub runs out in 2-3 months.
lmfao remove it entirely? Yeah, smart move there champ. Remember what happened in wod when they announced no flying ever? Yeah, it was the biggest backlash in this games history. Then again I’m replying to the court jester of MVP’s.
I don’t really miss flying to be honest.
Actually every wow character was born on the ground. Getting around is so dang easy now with the countless flight paths, flight master whistle, reduce hearthstone time, portals ect. Flying makes doing things even more brainless then it already is and turns a detailed world into just something to fly over and ignore. It also ruins world PvP so i hope flying will be turned off in Warmode. I’m sure flying will come soon so we can do boring world quests even faster lol…
I want to fly too. Please hurry Blizz because I unsubbed as WoW is no fun without flying. If you get flying put back in soon enough, I just might resub.
Playing memory game cause I need 100 World Quests completed to do flying!!!
THIS GAME HAS BECOME GARBAGE!!!
Caps locking and bolding. I can’t believe it’s come to this.
There are major issues the game devs need to address. Amoung those issues are RNG overload, and repetitive grindy content that is not fun and not engaging.
Yup.
Theyve been given massive feedback and whats been done?
NOTHING.
And your source is…?
All stick no carrot makes man cow sad ![:cry:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/cry.png?v=6" ":cry:")
Please just remove flying entirely!
Want to see three quarters of the playerbase evaporate?
Go right ahead.
Yeah well, I am not saying Flying makes content satisfying either.
I’ll put it this way, everyone does have different reasons for why they want there flying. Some of those reasons like you have mentioned, aren’t reasons, but are lame excuses.
Flying doesn’t make doing anything going any faster. You still gotta dismount, and do what you have to do.
And yeah, may make travel times a bit more shorter, but hey, how can we be exactly sure it is going to make the daily emissaries go a bit more faster?
“The game is best played on the ground, where you can see other players, interact with them, and where all combat and content already happens!”
flightpaths, hearthstones, tether/leash, res sick logout play an alt…i use all of these to avoid content i do not enjoy…flying is actually something i enjoy. I remember a time when devs created content for flying.
boy, a mod really took a hacksaw to this thread, deleted about 100 posts, most of which didnt need to go. didnt know Blizz was becoming China.
Yeah I know. Vast majority of those post were mine too ![:frowning:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/frowning.png?v=6" ":frowning:")
Apparently for trolling when wasn’t even trolling.