I guess what I’m saying is, I don’t view people from other servers that were merged into my server as making the world feel alive. I see it as a band aide.
If the current word feels alive, and you remove QoL features from the game, such as portals and making it inconvenient to play, people are going to consider whether to continue to play or not. If enough people decide to stop playing the world will feel less alive. I’ve considered stopping and I’m seeing several others here also thinking on it.
I seriously don’t understand the point you’re trying to make. Why wouldn’t they be there? What do portals have to do with this? Blizz wants to shoehorn people into Orgimmar and Stormwind for the portal hub, to make it “feel more alive.” It feels alive enough right now. We don’t need everyone and their grandmother in those two places to make the game feel more populated. Besides, I assume people are out actually doing things if they aren’t in the main cities.
Wasting time traveling is an excellent use of limited time for a totally pointless sense of “bigness”. If people want to RP and travel manually more power to them, but forcing it on all players is just adding an obnoxiously long loading window to everyone else who just wants to get to the content they want to play.
I agree with the sentiment that making it inconvenient for players to get to the content they actually want to do will cause players to do fewer things or stop doing things altogether.
Honestly, if there is anything that would drive me from the game, it’s the incessant micromanaging the devs are doing. Stop controlling your playerbase and allow them to actually play the stupid game.
I confess I did not understand why they removed portals from the sanctuaries in Pandaria!
Is it a way of forcing people to save portals in Boralus / Dazaralor?
Except to make the new hub mandatory and remove this option from the players for petty motives!
Sadly Blizz has a history of that. Northrend Dalaran lost it’s portals, SW/Org gain more portals to funnel people there all the time, the Shrines lost their portals and now more portal removals.
I checked all of my characters, none of them have the ability to portal to Deepholm. I checked on particular leveled characters, they also cannot use the portals to cataclysm zones in place of portals being removed.
questioning things, and attempting to educate people, is not bullying.
it’s only inconvenient if you don’t know your way around.
…and why would they need to bug every mage they can find?
enough with the drama already.
one mage is all you need for one port.