New zone has flying disabled, devs have learned nothing

My need for speed!

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I don’t mind walking, but it better not be uphill.

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both ways in the snow.

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Was lack of flight what made it fun?

barefooted?

All I am saying is if MC escher could make a water fall and a set of stairs that went upward all the way around, Blizz can too. Right?

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It certainly was a big part of their intended gameplay. You had areas that could only be accessed in particular ways. It required us to sometimes think and get creative. Keeping us on the ground means they can construct a zone which makes exploration and navigation a part of the gameplay. Rather than just soaring over everything.

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It’s Korthia all over again

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oh shucks theyre giving me a way to waste time on a video game, im gonna complain about it

New zone has flying disabled, devs have learned nothing

They have learned nothing about what? The opinion of you and a couple thousand vocal people in the forums out of millions of players?

What makes you think that your opinion represents the opinion of the millions of people who play this game?

I’m out of the loop on this particular thing.

Other than being an island and not having flight, what exactly is similar about it to the island expedition islands?

It just looks similar. And the story is that some kul tirans went there to mine azerite.

So…island = no flight, and now that we have confirmation of no flight, it all adds up?

you know, just because people aren’t coming to a forum and saying what they are thinking, doesn’t mean they aren’t still thinking it.

The reason why a vocal miniorty can gets things changed is because THEY ARE THE VOCAL ONES!

The squeaky wheel gets the grease or something along those lines.

Timeless Isle was fantastic.
I literally just went there and fought some of the tougher mobs for fun.
I wasn’t even grinding the currency, I don’t do rep grinds or anything.
I was still finding new bits to that zone for about 3 weeks despite it being tiny.
It was great.

That said, Blizzard has used a barebones model of TI for almost every patch zone since. None of them have been as good, but regardless they’ve definitely worn out the whole ā€œfarm rares in a circuitā€ nonsense since then.

TI was great for its time, and it still outclasses most patch zones just by merit of all the little secrets and how you triggered things. but the core gameplay was no doubt the rare loop (or just mob grinding for rep, but, again, not my thing so I didn’t care about that).

Maybe, just maybe. We’ve learnt nothing by getting upset that flight isn’t available on stuff for the last 16? years. IDK I’m drunk on pumpkin wine.

I don’t get what you mean.

Dont sub for that, you know everything there is going to be replaced after 1 week of patch 11.10. All those time you spend farming just going to be a waste. It is going to be forbidden reach 2.0

Yeah my first thought was that. Zone looked small enough to favor ground mounts.

I doubt it. People at Blizzard can tell what is really going on and what is really popular by collecting statistics from servers. These stats cover the actions of all of the millions of players.

We are all welcome to express out opinions but they are just that, opinions of each one of us out of the millions who play this game.

I asked what was similar about it other than being an island and not having flight.

You kind of said ā€œnothing other than thatā€ by saying that it just looks similar. So I’m lost on how it ā€œmakes senseā€ that it doesn’t have flight lol.

I don’t think it makes sense and I was around for island expeditions. I was also around for forbidden reach and zaralek though. To me it makes a lot more sense to fly around an island than in a cave.