Rearranging and Removing Portals

[Lorethelin-emerald-dream]

Outrage culture my friend. It seems to be the way of 2019, sadly. In the list of issues I have with the game, travel time isn’t even in the Top 100. It’s just a small group of outraged people. Note that most of this thread is 20-30 posters reposting over and over and over. There are people like me who agree with you though, they are just afraid of being flamed. People like you and me, however, are not. Bring on the heat!

[Hardwire-velen (Hardwire)]

However, we’ve seen how updates to the game can leave the means of accessing different areas feeling increasingly chaotic. For example— today if you go to the Cleft of Shadows in Orgrimmar, you’ll find it dotted with portals in a way that almost looks sporadic. We’re cleaning that up, and we see this as an opportunity to consolidate a lot of travel into a consistent venue with a consistent look and feel, and room for future growth when needed.

If you want to clean that up, the easy way to do it is to remove the portals, put in an NPC, and the NPC presents you a menu of destinations you can pick/choose from. Visually un-cluttered, elegant, simple.

That’s not why you’re doing this change and everybody knows it.

They could also simply put in the Stormwind and Orgrimmar portal rooms, as planned, and leave the existing portals in Dalaran alone. Though I would prefer to also see the return of the Shrine portals.

[Mobilediablo-spirestone]

There’s no way in hell this game has 3 million subs right now, let alone 5.

[Spanko-kiljaeden (Spanko)]

You have a list of 100 things wrong with this game? Share please.

[Taienna-aerie-peak (Taienna)]

@Purpledrìnk-area-52

I understand that, and trust me I almost NEVER read forums but this topic has caught my eye being an avid achievement/collection player. That being said I feel that I am not alone in that aspect here. It’s not just in this from, its talked about in guild chats, trade chats and other means of communication. I do wish we could get a better reflective of the entire player base but until we can this is the best we got.

heres a bit more of the dumpster fire for ya.
reddit.com/r/wow/comments/aw6lu1/patch_815_is_removing_over_a_dozen_useful_portals/

See how many posters there are happy about this change.
Careful…lots of language over it

[Hocksy-emerald-dream]

I hope your happy. A patch that I was once excited about is now one that I’m dreading. This shouldn’t be the feeling one gets when going into a content update.

Also, while I don’t play it, you should seriously ask yourself why so many of these “improvements” turns into a free PR campaign for FF14.

I’ve heard the community like the Devs of that game.

[Honorabull-korialstrasz]

Can we just add RNG to a single portal? That will add playtime.

[Righteous-garrosh (Righteous)]

we can’t help but be impacted by the subject of transportation portal removal

Great choice of words. Admirable subtlety. I even gave you a for it.

impacted

[adjective]
Definition of impacted

• strongly or directly affected by something especially in a negative way
• deeply entrenched, not easily changed or removed

Anyone want to venture a guess as to which definition is intended?

[Brewgar-moon-guard]

im sorry but last time i checked you dont speak for the entire wow playerbase. move on please

[Verdre-silvermoon (Verdre)]

They will get comfortable, and enjoy it.

Would you be happy if you were fired? Would you be comfortable with the change from being employed to being unemployed?

Not all change is good or positive. There are changes that are bad and unhealthy.

[Lesbefriend-thaurissan]

Aren’t you thankful?

[Nillah-uldaman (Nillah)]

More WoW players visit Wowhead than these forums.

Funny you mention that, since the post on Wowhead also has a lot of comments, and the majority are negative.

[Spanko-kiljaeden (Spanko)]

Yeah, they are all negative as well lol.

[Taienna-aerie-peak (Taienna)]

Majority of people.
aka “paying customers”
Cant wait to see how this ends.

You’re one of those guys that just wants to watch the world burn aren’t ya?

Im one of those guys who has put $1500 into playing this game in the last 19 months who is trying to find a reason to not feel like quitting.
Good enough?

[Rankin-shandris (Rankin)]

In the list of issues I have with the game, travel time isn’t even in the Top 100.

So go focus on those issues instead of stomping around in a thread that you say doesn’t concern you.

There are people like me who agree with you though, they are just afraid of being flamed. People like you and me, however, are not. Bring on the heat!

AKA the peanut gallery that shows up every time Blizzard says/does something even slightly controversial so they can stir the pot and antagonize other players.

[Brahmina-khadgar (Brahmina)]

Did anyone else forget that they did this back in cataclysm for old Dalaran and literally no one cared either way?

Well, I cared. So I guess “literally” doesn’t mean the same to you as it does to Mr. Webster.

But it’s not the removal of the regular portals that’s bothering me here (since they’re being replaced). It’s the removal of portals like the Caverns of Time, which exists in both Dalarans (until the 12th). I won’t go into why that’s such an important portal since it’s explain elsewhere numerous times, but I will point out it’s been in the game since before Cata. Why is it suddenly something the devs feel isn’t needed or makes the world feel smaller when it was fine for a decade?

Oh, yes. I can fly over there from Uldum, a trip of just over three minutes. But that’s 3 X all the alts I would have run through various instances in CoT. I don’t have that sort of time, so I’ll simply not go over there at all. I’ll do dailies or whatever and log off, reducing my play time by a considerable amount. This really isn’t a bad thing for me, since it will give me more time to do real life things. But I don’t think it’s the result the devs really wanted.

[Nillah-uldaman (Nillah)]

I’ve heard the community like the Devs of that game.

They’re working on putting together a big community birthday package for several of the devs right now, in fact.

[Ralanbék-frostmourne (Ralanbék)]

impacted

[adjective]
Definition of impacted

• strongly or directly affected by something especially in a negative way
• deeply entrenched, not easily changed or removed

Anyone want to venture a guess as to which definition is intended?

double entendre

We are negatively impacted
They won’t change.

I like !

[Amarlly-azuremyst (Amarlly)]

im sorry but last time i checked you dont speak for the entire wow playerbase. move on please

The majority of the comments I’ve seen would seem to agree with them though, and they never claimed to speak for the entire playerbase either.

[Shearmane-moon-guard]

I have a feeling thats because when most people dont have an issue with a game, they dont go out of their way to post about that. they just keep playing.