Pathfinder Exists Because of Players' Lack of Moderation

Complaining that there’s a lack of content is absurd on its face.

The forum is overflowing with tears over Pathfinder being too much work, or rep grinds being too grindy and taking too long…

When people complain that there’s nothing left to do, what they really mean is, there’s nothing left to do of whatever they enjoy in the game.

Example: (of playing parts of the game they don’t want to play, not regarding lack of content, just to be clear.)

Arena people like to arena. BGers the same. Raiders the same.

Yet, filthy casual that I am, who does everything else in the game except for Arena, BGs, Dungeons, & Raids, feel like I’ll never get to everything I want to get to, especially leveling alts like I used to before Legion.

Before 7.0, I rarely bothered with end game stuff unless it was something cool like the Cloud Serpent mounts. I’d just start working on an alt.

But with Legion, and now BFA, there’s so much at end game out in the world I want to get to, and I still can’t. And I play a lot.

Sure, Pathfinder is part of that, and I wish it was front-loaded into the game and attainable at launch. I’m also thankful there weren’t any instanced content attached to it this time. And it should never be gated until almost halfway through an expansion.

BFA is soooooo much better with flying.

Pathfinder exists because Blizzard wants to punish the player base who overwhelmingly let them know we’d stop paying for the game without flying. They’d rather do less work on finishing the environment, so Pathfinder buys them more time to finish the details.

It’s also why there still aren’t direct flight paths for the most part.

Of course it’s also to create the illusion of more content for their time played metrics, even though no one is playing while on a taxi.

Funny thing though, I’m logging in for longer now that I can fly myself around.

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