Ordinarily I would agree. But with Team Diablow, suggestions are ignored. They know best. They are the Imperials. Recognize what they are doing to WoW and be at peace with it.
In the meantime, there’s Classic and I think in the future, TBC-MoP legacy servers which will all bring back millions to play their favorite expansions.
Remember in Wrath when Blizzard actually designed the world with flying in mind? Wouldn’t a brand new zone with no attachments to lore be a perfect place to try this again?
#wishfulwishing
If I were a developer, I would probably ignore you, too. You’re dissatisfied and that dissatisfaction is 100% justified, but you roll into these threads with an all-or-nothing presentation just dripping with sarcasm and salt. My way or the highway. My money, so I should get what I want. Purposely misspelling things to be edgy.
I agree with and understand your position, but you and everyone else just like you who does the exact same thing is probably getting ignored because your critique is bad. You don’t give any kind of suggestion to fix what you are upset about in a way that could even remotely fit with the current philosophy on Flight. You critique with no path forward, which is bad critique.
If you are unhappy, get behind a solution suggestion and pour all that dissatisfaction into supporting it. Don’t kick the feet out from under it because you’re mad at Blizzard. Or make one yourself, and champion that change.
We’re all being ignored. You just don’t know it. SL will be more of the same because this dev team does not know any other way.
No suggestions made in these forums will be incorporated here. The devs don’t even read them. They use Twitter instead, probably because they can tell Blizzard’s paying customers to “sod off” if they want. Take your suggestions to Twitter if you want even a snowball’s chance of them being read by a dev.
Just let us earn flight at the 6 month mark. That’s a long enough wait.
Just let us get flight at max level again. That’s a long enough wait.
As it is shaking out the timegate is gonna hurt Blizzard this time around, more than it will hurt players. Everyone I know who is buying SL (and that is a very scant few of everyone I’ve met over these last 15 years) is planning to wait till flight is unlocked.
These folks have explained that they don’t want to spend a year (or more) playing on the ground, when they can just start playing after flight is patched in and they can do the odious Pathfinger chores straight off, then fly.
Many players apparently resent how their time is wasted by these hair-brained development schemes.
All I can do at this point is to suggest that they stop digging.
This isn’t a sandbox game that lets you build your own world and have the freedom to do as you wish, it never has been and never will be.
And ladies, and germs, this response is exactly what you will get.
It’s either a total sandbox
OR
a dictatorial rail controlled utterly by the devs.
I however and many others, have lovely memories of choosing our own paths in WoW before Team Diablow brought in the wrecking ball.
For now, I have Classic.
May you find your way as pleasant.
This is not true. They had already decided before the start of wod that flight would never be implemented. The terrain puzzles and dense mobs were simply intended to slow people down. The temperamental sensibilities of artists had nothing to do with it.
If you want to be childish you can put it that way. The fact is the game has lost many millions of players since the first attempt to remove flight took place. Many actually did leave over the issue. Your agenda is breaking through here.
Oh, yes. We need more “compromise”. Players need to keep paying and come up with more ways themselves that blizzard can gut flight, and we need you to spoonfeed that to us.
Given the history of pathfinder we should expect sl will likely handle it the same.
Blizz has no reason to change anything when it comes to flying.
Well put Jelybean. There are many players posting on this subject who either don’t really know what actually happened, or who are just making it up as they go along.
We who know how Blizzard strung everyone along with “soon” promises during WoD; flight would be in 6.1 then… what was in 6.1 was the soggy tome “flying in draenor” but no flight…
Then… more “soon” promises. . .
Then… memorial day weekend and no announcement on Blizzard’s own website; no announcement on the Forums; no announcement even on Twitter…
Ion tells Polygon magazine, and ONLY Polygon magazine that the imperial devs in all their wisdom, have decreed that flight will not be coming to Draenor and in fact, there would not be flight in any future expansions.
So forgive me if I don’t take Blizzard’s word for anything.
The only ones throwing a temper tantrum are the ones at Blizzard HQ.
The only thing that needs to be changed with Pathfinder is the unreasonable time gating for no reason.
This is absolute nonsense. When the flying debacle hit WOD, thousand upon thousands of people came to the forums. There were a huge number of well thought out, well written posts that were completely ignored.
Blizzard DOES.NOT.CARE. about anything except doing things cheaply. If it saves resources and money, they’ll do it. As I said earlier, welcome to modern gaming which has little to do with gaming.
People get max level in like a day. They aren’t gonna agree to flight at max level.
I’ve heard that all areas will be flight restricted until you have Shadow Lands Pathfinder.
That is an exceptional way to ensure that SL will be DOA.
Of course they aren’t. Better to keep that part of the game strung out for over a year than actually create innovative content.
I’ve played every expansion through WoD and I never, in 15 years, reached max level in one day. Even in WoD which was very content-lite, the leveling content kept me busy for weeks.
Of course, content back in the day was plentiful, imaginative, interesting and original. None of it was parceled out in little bits.
I leveled almost 50 toons just doing the content I liked. In fact, there are things I still haven’t done in the game. 15 years of playtime and there’s still stuff I haven’t done 
That’s why I’m pleading with them to reduce it to 6 months. That’s plenty of time for us to see everything on the ground.