You can flip through the whole world portal-to-portal in under 3 minutes. That’s just silly in an MMO. Time is a currency in MMOs. Sorry. It’s always been that way and always will be.
Very likely the same singular person who was posting pro portal removal in my thread using another character so we think there is more than one.
At any rate, its one or two posters in here versus the masses.
One or two dont pay those server bills. The masses do.
So this should all Wile E. Coyote in Actiblizzards face in 4…3…2…
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Let’s look at some of the portals we currently have and their usefulness.
CoT - great access to southern Kalimdor in addition to the amount of xmog/mount/achievement farming content right there. None of this is current content. Our only alternative is Uldum which is from a zone that’s not even considered when powerleveling alts. too spread out and too slow.
Dalaran Crater - Access to northern Eastern Kingdoms for alliance. Better than a 10 minute flight path from ironforge for sure. Again not for current content
Shattrath - I’m not sure if this is being removed?? If anything it’s doing what’s happening with legion and dalaran and the portal is just to the starting zone (who decided Asuna is the starting zone anyway? Dalaran is kind of the hub for most people there.
Karazhan - Seems more of the niche market portal and I can’t comment much more on that one. I think there has been better feedback in this threat about this one.
Wyrmrest - Same for me as Kara. Others can probably elaborate more.
Why is blizzard so out of touch with the player base on such basic things? Its seriously concerning, its almost like the people designing this game don’t even play it.
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Most people just stand in the city and wait for queues to pop or to be summoned to the nightly raid.
The portals actually get people out into the world doing content in older zones.
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Why take away stuff people are accustomed to for the last over a decade? What honestly is the benefit of this??? Is it because legacy content is way more engaging and fun to farm for tmogs than BfA? so they want to put some roadblocks in our way to keep us from doing it. Well, they for sure are putting a roadblock in my sub. ![:grinning:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/grinning.png?v=6" ":grinning:")
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Honestly, this is the best thing I’ve seen them do in a while. I love the change. I was actually worried that Portal rooms would kill what was left of the open world.
huh…and yet it HASNT BEEN SILLY for how many YEARS now?
Please… just stop talking at this point. Your posts are sounding absurd.
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Both old and new Kara are popular places for mount runs. Old Kara is also popular for transmog and for power leveling alts.
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You contradict yourself here - has it always been one way, or is the current way silly and you want it it to change?
It is what is is now and has been that way for, well, at least 2 years - options are being removed that are already in game.
It has not always been that way - it’s been the way it is now.
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Of course.
No one can be THAT naive.
Acting like were begging for MORE portals that didnt exist before or something…when we’re ACTUALLY saying we dont want the portals REMOVED that BLIZZARD PUT THERE and have been there for YEARS
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Except seemingly every other design decision is “people who only have x amount of time to play should feel they can stay current.”
They need to pick a side and stick to it. Either it is meant to be a time commitment and a lot more than portals need to change, or just stop removing convenience features. I don’t care which, but the way things are now is beginning to be quite absurd.
We can’t expect people to need to play more to gear, but we can expect people to waste time traveling (which is arguably not playing at all)? Really? That makes sense to you?
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There was a time in WoW where the only portals were the ones Mages made for their group. It was better then. I would like it rolled back to that. Therefor, I am a Blizzard shill who is paid off by them? Hilarious… It’s just an opinion, dude, get over it.
Do you think the world would feel more alive if we limited the number of planes that can fly to various cities? Do you think cities would feel more “alive” when you remove ways of getting to them?
I don’t think you guys have really spent time thinking about this.
Making things annoying and more difficult for us to travel around an already huge world doesn’t make things better or more exciting for us. It just makes us feel like you’re trying to nickel and dime us for as much “time played” as you can.
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Well, WoW classic is coming. You can play that and this version whenever you feel like. They share a sub.
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Who here took a port to darnasus, had to fly to someplace waaaaayy south (silithus or the like), took a taxi, made lunch, checked flight, ate lunch, checked flight, went bio…
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DONT CARE.
The MoP portals have been there for YEARS, friend. YOU get over that.
I didnt put them there…BLIZZARD DID.
I am not asking for anything that THEY didnt have in there ALREADY.
Keep going though. Its amusing having you tell me what I had BETTER like in my game. Keep that up till my accounts are all closed and Im over at FF14 along with all the rest of the folks here who finally get sick of Blizzards games and your defense of their bad decisions.
No skin off my nose either way. I have dozens of other hobbies.
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That time period was Vanilla. There is a game being released if you wish for that time period back. Otherwise, the devs have been trying to save traveling time since BC. Its been a regular part of their strategy, including their reasoning for having a single portal room.
As the game gets older, people also get older. The audience changes, and a game should either change with it or be content with a small niche. If something is too much a PITB, I’ll skip it because my non work time is precious.
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Stop putting time into removing features that players want and use.
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It all boils down to the fact that taxi rides take entirely too long. If you want less portals make it so no taxi flight ever exceeds 5 minutes to anywhere.
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