I’m perfectly fine with the extremely trivial pathfinder requirements. Not that it bothers me as I don’t use steady flight for anything anymore unless I’m levelling alts on live before they get to the Dragon Isles and unlock it (but with TWW Dragonriding/Skyriding will unlock a lot earlier).
You asked if Pathfinder should apply to Dragonriding/Skyriding as well. I said no.
That doesn’t mean I think the Pathfinder requirements for Steady Flight are unreasonable, unfair or whatever other buzzwords you want to use to describe it. I think those requirements are fine.
Somehow you took a very simple answer and tried to twist it into something you never asked me (since I made it clear I didn’t think they were unreasonable in my first post). Do better please.
Im sorry…the lack of empathy, compassion and understanding in here from some is really nauseating. The duplicitousness of it is just irritating.
Im muting this thread and any more like it that come up because just reading these responses is making me lose even more respect for folks in here ive enjoyed talking to prior this.
The only reason TBC flight isn’t removed is because they haven’t converted all mounts to use Skyriding yet.
Mark my words, this is a normal feature roll-over, and it’s not something you should do all at once. I expect by the end of this new series of xpacs it will be gone altogether. So get used to it. It takes two buttons to Skyride, and every mouse under the sun nowadays has two side-buttons. I could Skyride with my mouth and no hands, disability isn’t a thing for this.
They won’t get rid of steady flight due to the simple fact that there are genuinely people with accessibility issues that can’t use Dragonriding/Skyriding effectively.
And that’s fine. It’s okay for Steady Flight to exist, Blizzard won’t remove it. It’ll be there as an option for people who prefer it. It will just require the bare minimum to unlock at this point instead of requiring massive time gates and rep grinds.
People do adapt. And if they don’t like some change that makes the game less fun to them, they may leave and never come back. That’s a legitimate option for them, one that can cost Blizzard a lot of money in the long run, because continuous subscriptions is where the big money comes from.
The idea that “people will adapt and get used to this change we want to make for our own reasons” didn’t work with flight removal during wod. It didn’t work during Shadowlands.
You can’t change human nature, no matter how deeply you believe you can easily manipulate other people into doing what you want them to want to do or be.