Look Blizzard, I don’t need you to admit fault. But this was a terrible idea, with equally poor execution, and it’s just pissing people off.
Put 'em back. Please. I don’t care if you do it quietly, sans announcement, in hopes the mob wanders off on its own.
Edit: I know Bornakk had the necessary caveat in his post about “didn’t get a chance to verify,” so they have their out. That’s really not the point of my post. This is just more support for the “Blizzard did a dumb thing” argument.
I think they’re hoping the mob will wander off on its own without the portals being put back. But so far they’re at least partially right, since many of us have wandered off… to other games.
hmm thats odd. I was doing the starter quests on a disc priest this morning and i to had to take the dalaran crater portal…but it was there for me anyhow!
Maybe they still have some bugs or kinks to work out! Although i to am not so pleased about all the missing portals across the zones.
I can’t believe they had the gaul to ask us why we “needed” a Caverns of Time portal, when they HAD to know they were introducing a quest to take us to Tanaris on DAY ONE of the new patch.
I guarantee you the people who put that quest in chuckled as they said to each other, “we’re putting this Tanaris quest in, right next to where we’re taking the Tanaris portal out. lol”
No the blue who posted that was very clear about saying “i believe it’s SUPPOSED to work this way.” He knew it wasn’t happening, at least not at launch. But it was a valid point they couldn’t argue against so they just implied it wasn’t and moved on.
I know Bornakk had the necessary caveat in his post about “didn’t get a chance to verify,” so they have their out. That’s really not the point of my post.
This is just more support for the “Blizzard did a dumb thing” argument.
IMO, it’s not wise to take something away from people when it’s been a normal way of the game. I was fine before flying, but now that I can fly I would be furious if they took flying away. Same goes for the portals. I was fine before we had portals everywhere, but now that we have (had) them I’m furious they took them away. It just seems like bad decision making.
Also, this could be a sign that populations are so low that they want to funnel everyone into eachother. Afterall, Org is much busier now (although this could be because everyone is logging in for the new patch).
What looks cool? The empty spaces where the portals used to be? No one said to remove the new portal room. You may not have noticed, but several portals were totally removed from the game when they “reorganized” them.
There’s also an old, if somewhat rude insult that describes that kind of action.
I can see removing things that have been proven to be detrimental to the game. That’s perfectly fine. But usually in such cases, the removal is due to something being too easy to exploit.
Portals however are not exploits nor are they cheating. So, the removal of them is nothing short of “I don’t want you to play with my toys anymore so I’m taking them back!”
In short behaving like a petulant little spoiled brat.
OP you should change the title of this thread. You’re highlighting a pretty huge oversight that negatively impacts the Legion experience, and Im hoping that someone on the team will be alerted to this. Your current title makes it sound like this is a completely different type of thread.
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