Gold for convenience is always a ludicrous amount under modern Blizzard standards. Brutosaur AH mount, buying boosts with gold -> token, buying medallions to speed up Tanaan Diplomat, etc.
Blizzard will get you one way or another unless you force their hand.
There’s nothing to debate, but not in the way you mean it (stop making threads about Pathfinder). It’s that we should keep pushing back as customers against Blizzard’s behavior, and treat all dissent in anti-Pathfinder threads as disingenuous concern trolls and shills.
You won’t be able to buy flying in the future in the most current anymore. Gold cost is a moot point when you can sell a token you can buy with money.
Blizzard wants players to put in more effort beyond clicking a button to buy it.
You’re playing the wrong genre. There’ll always be grinds. I question why people play at all when pretty much all that’s needed to fly in PF is already gained by playing at max level.
This buy flying for gold stuff isn’t welcomed or wanted because it would cost so much it would verge on p2w. If you’re interested in unlocking features by buying tokens, find another game.
All these Pathfinder threads are nothing more than spam at this point. People have been complaining since WoD and at some point you have to accept it’s a lost cause.
I have always experienced the content from the ground before flying unless flight was necessary like in Cata, last part of Wrath. The content is experienced by most players by reaching cap. In fact I levelled 5 characters without flight through MoP. But for repetitive content WQs, dailies, instances etc flying should be available. I HAVE seen the content questing through the zones. Then I can buy flight for the repetitive content. So at cap there can be both. There can even be a delay.
Blizzard made flying a problem. There wasn’t one before WoD. And then they chose the laziest way out, achievements instead of an engaging story. I loved Cloud Serpents. Something like this, you know.
After experiencing the wonderful map that is Nazjatar with its masterful map design and engaging mobs, I’ve quickly turned against pathfinding. Like titanforging, it is one of those “you think you do but you don’t” blizzard enforces that serves no other purpose than their shady ones, whatever they may be. And if the excuse is warmode, Timeless Island did it better, and I didn’t even like Timeless.
It’s that it’s all fake scarcity created by Blizzard’s state-enforced monopoly on World of Warcraft (copyright law), and that enabling flight is as trivial as changing a 0 to a 1. The code’s already been written for flight, there’s no labor cost in enabling it in future expansions.
I’d rather not have flying at all, but rather than throwing a tantrum I’m ok with flying after one year with Pathfinder rather than buying it with an exorbitant amount of gold per character.
Not everyone agrees to it but its not that horrible to quit over it . All it proves that ppl are willing to make compromises both Blizzard and the playerbase.