I personally think it’s very not cool. I want to use different mounts for different things. If I want to use a different piece of equipment, then NONE of my mounts will be able to walk on water. I will have to repurchase the water walking equipment if I want to walk on water again–and I will lose whatever ability I was using instead of water walking.
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OR!
Or…
Now, I know this is a completely radical concept in pap kotick’s “Take all the fun out of video games” regime…but stay with me for a second:
DON’T TOUCH THE WATER STRIDERS THAT PEOPLE HAD TO ALREADY GRIND TWICE TO GET THE ABILITY THAT IS IN THE FRIGGIN NAME!
I mean, let’s remove the namesake ability, from the mount and then sell it back to people and hope they won’t notice? What kind of absolute nonsense is this, and what genius thought it up?
I mean, let’s sell a cup of water…WITHOUT the water!
“If you’d like the option to have water in that cup, you can unlock that feature for an additional fee.”
…
“But the beverage was included with the purchase. It literally says ‘cup of water.’”
“We are removing water from ‘cup of water’ to improve the immersion in the offerings to our customers. This is in keeping with the vision of our director who believes ‘taking the fun out of beverages’ should be number one priority in our design process.”
/customer facepalms so hard it opens a singularity
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Edit: Odd but the forums shows that as a response to me but didn’t denote which post you were supposedly replying to. I’m thinking now that wasn’t the case reading your other replies and replies to you from other people.
First, uh, show me where they explicitly provide details about what will happen to the current craftables that are not mount equipment, stirrups and saddles. Because linking that only proves that you fail at reading comprehension. Second, it doesn’t matter regardless because we’re also getting flight at the same time so this will have no impact at all on my gameplay. The characters that I used saddles, stirrups, and the strider on won’t need any of them.
Again, the equipment is a great idea but leave the strider alone and let people who don’t want to use it have the water walking equipment option.
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I think, in all of the discussion above what I would like to know is this: What is the real reason they are doing this? I find it hard to believe that one mount “dominating” the world of mounts breaks the game so much as to warrant a change of this nature. As has been mentioned many time before…people switch to the mount to water-walk then switch back. I know that’s what I do. Does Blizzard think this is actually better? I also can’t believe that anyone truly thinks the water walking mount itself, as a mount, is the issue. To me, the issue is that something I had always on a single mount is going to be something that I now have to pay for, but I can have it on all mounts. And I have to continue paying for it if I find that I’m getting dazed too much in the area I’m currently playing in, so I have to switch out.
Now, if the Stirrups and Barding remain in game and effective, then…not so bad. Still stupid, but not so bad. If DK’s and Shaman still get to keep their water walking buffs…still stupid, but not so bad.
I think the point is…this is still stupid. What problem is being solved? I would really like to know.
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Thanks for the insult, I needed that to go with my coffee.
Secondly, I did say that I have assumed they replace the appropriate crafted items but that its an assumption and I don’t know for sure.
How’s your reading comprehension going there?
Again change the name because what do Water Striders do? Stride on water. I suggested “Sinker.” I thought this mount was unique. Guess not. It will be the same as every other mount now.
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why wouldn’t it?
it always has, nobody is expecting this to change.
from the article:
it’ll work exactly as before, with the benefit of making all of that character’s mounts walk on water.
If it aint broke, fix the crud out of it until its mostly unrecognizable, and then charge for it.
They talk about immersion a lot. Things like a waterbug mount that can walk on water is that. Killing that is anti RPG imo.
They also talk about a sense of community. Is that line crossed by “LF water walking pots”, “WTB gliders”, “anyone have a tmog mount”, ect.?
Instead: You get a Water walking, and you get a Water walking, and you get a Water walking, to infinity and beyond.
(small fee required)
Also the other mentioned nerfs by others.
To be honest this tells me that people still playing in the future will need, absolutely need, one of these new things all the time. I do admit I know very little about this subject though. As someone who quit awhile ago, if I logged in on the free weekend and my waterbug couldn’t water walk any more it would just be more of a deterrent to wanting to continue playing.
Maybe I just misunderstand the need or want for a change like this, and i really don’t like the thought of having to rebuy something I already have.
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This is what I can’t figure out. Why are the targeting the strider so hardcore but are willing to leave other mounts special properties alone? Why can’t the strider be left as is as an incentive to get it so that your other mounts can use other equipment but if you can’t get the strider or don’t want to you can use the equipment slot for water walking.
Guess it just makes too much sense.
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I asked for citation, you linked something that didn’t clarify the point, then told me your admittedly assumed answer. Nice job at completely missing the point? Why do you think I care what your assumptions are? My reading comprehension is fine thanks!
Any time there is inconvience, any time there is a time sink, any time there is anything that adds even one second to your /played…it is with one goal:
to pad their metrics.
Nevermind that their own quarterly reports have told them they are falling across the board (along with their stock prices), and that every time they try and squeeze more out through these tired tricks, they only drive more customers away from the game (the dust hasn’t even settled from portalgate), but they’ll keep messing with the player’s convenience. Because they want to dictate how we enjoy our off hours…
…because they know better.
Even though the ever dwindling player count tells them their arrogance keeps driving people away.
Maybe, just maybe they should focus on the glaring number of things broken in the game, rather than on “fixing” what isn’t broken and trying to micromanage how people enjoy their fun. I imagine they wouldn’t enjoy it much if the wow playerbase stood in their living room every night screaming at them for how they held their remote control, sat in their favorite chair, operated their cooking devices, etc.
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And people like me quit playing and paying long ago.
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Did I miss this as a hot topic that needed fixing? I thought we just farmed out rep or played a water walking class?
It is a bit irritating that things I worked for are just handed on a silver platter for everyone, and I’m just supposed to smile and say thanks for the experience of dailies all those years ago.
It also sends the indirect message that items we earn or farm now, can at any time be changed or discarded at any point in the future. Sure, Blizzard can technically do that at any time, but why should we keep playing if they are proving that they are openly changing their own systems on the fly?
It costs gold. That does not equal “free mount”
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You and I are of like mind on this subject, sir. As a budding conspiracy theorist, I see those 2-3 second delays in game everywhere I go. A well placed rock, or a disguised path-not-a-path up a mountain or even moving the place I reappear when I portal somewhere (looking at you warfronts) it just means another little bit of time played per person.
I would really like to know how that translates into more money for Blizzard, because I’m obviously too stupid to figure it out for myself.
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I’ve edited the title of the thread and the beginning of the description to reflect the new discussion. Hopefully this helps.
Like what, nerfs?
Being able to water walk on any mount. Even multi person mounts.
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I had my ugly water bug forever and am glad to finally be done using it to cross water always wanted to use another better mount and it does seem level 20s and up can use it so no one is left to dry.
As usual GD doesn’t disappoint with not knowing the whole story before jumping to conclusions and the sky is falling.
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