Rearranging and Removing Portals

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Sure – I just don’t agree with the idea of it making the world feel small. It feels like it has the opposite effect, honestly.

I feel the same way

Yes? I fought back the Legion with the aid of the Kirin Tor. Dalaran’s security in the Broken Isles was cemented through my efforts. I don’t want to use a word like ‘deserve’ or ‘earned’ to describe those portals, but when they’re gone, it just feels like I’ve never been there, like my efforts didn’t happen.

I really don’t get this. How does the portal being relocated undo your efforts, this is so random… I guess this is a personal thing, but you can still go there, and it will be the same as it was before, and it really close to the new portal as well…

3232

Technically they already went after flying, but a “compromise” was reached.

But I see what you were doing there.

3233

This topic brings out the people who are most affected and yes these zones are irrelevant to progressing your max level character. Except for the collection meta

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3234

Hm, maybe you’ve missed a few details.

Some portals are being relocated. Several, however, are being outright removed.

For example, the portal to the Vale of Eternal Blossoms. The only means to reach Pandaria will be the Jade Forest portals in Stormwind and Orgrimmar.

If I’m trying to fly to the Isle of Thunder, that increases my overall travel time to get there by 4-5 minutes. That doesn’t make Pandaria feel larger – I know how big it is. And it was my questing that opened the gates to the Vale of Eternal Blossoms in the first place, was it not?

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3235

Dude, it is a really small change that will affect virtually no one in a significant way. And it is not for random reasons, they are specifically stating the reasons, you might not like the reasons, I sure don’t like some of their points as well, but they are not arbitrary. This backlash over something so small is just absurd to me.

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3236

Dude, it is a really small change that will affect virtually no one in a significant way.

Wait till this goes live.

You are in for a VERY rude awakening.

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3237

Imagine if you were commuting to work with your car but then randomly they banned all cars on the road so you had to use a bike, would you enjoy that?

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3238

Yes Isle of Thunder became pretty far away, I bet they are going to move the portal to half hill or something to make it less of a hassle. Northern Eastern Kingdoms is also insanely far away now.

3239

People have legit explained to you, quite patiently, why they dislike this change and disagree with the OP, the change, and you.

You seem to be intentionally obtuse about this? Like, are we just pretending that the hundreds of other posts in this thread, many involving or replying to you, didn’t exist?

I feel like one of us is taking Crazy Pills.

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3240

Then a day later they ban bikes then you have to walk to work.

3241

Might be small too you, others not so much.

Most of us see it for what it is, another lame method to increase the time played metric, attempting to spread less content over a longer time frame.

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3242

That one’s actually not too bad. Get yourself to Shattrath, portal to Isle of Quel’Danas, fly to Zul’Aman, run south.

Also, I sincerely doubt they’ll be moving the portal location to Halfhill.

3243

But why do it. While a small portion is affected why make there gameplay more tedoius and yes I enjoy soloing old content during the games dry points I don’t appreciate this in any way and I sympathize with people who are hard core collector’s

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3244

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3245

How is that analogy? Are they banning portals? Do you have to walk everywhere now? Come on…

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3246

You only care because you are Trolling.

If I have an hour to spend on a game, and I want to get to Nalak or Oondasta, this change adds 2-3 minutes per toon. It adds that much, flight paths easily already consume 10 minutes of time to do those 2 activities. It’s my hour and my game time, and if Blizzard want to reduce my play time, then I, like others with reduce the $$ they get.

Enjoy your prices going up as the game gets less and less popular as a result of stupid changes.

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3247

Funny thing about that, somebody else earlier in the thread was saying that flight points/etc were better than loading screens (resulting from portals), but that trip involves at least three:
Shatt
Isle
Flying/running out of TBC zone into PL
etc

3248

It’s a very good analogy. It’s convenience taken away. Just like taking away portals. Please answer me, would you be upset?

3249

I mean, you’re not wrong.

3250

lol I know what lodestar is, it just seemed like a really pretentious word to use in the context, and this from a guy with a BA in English lit :rofl:

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