What an asinine statement.
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What addon does that may I ask? Looks helpful
The number one reason I hate being unable to initially fly in new zones where it will later be allowed is that blizz seems to have a VERY DELIBERATE design philosophy of making these places as TEDIOUSLY OBNOXIOUS to navigate on a ground mount as possible.
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What exactly would that solve?
The quest guide addon is https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/wow-pro, I love it! It’s much better imo than AzerothAutoPilot because it gives you routes for all zones in the game so you can quest anywhere you want instead of only the “best leveling route”.
The nameplate addon is https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/plater-nameplates but you can get the ‘show me quest icons on nameplates’ feature by itself from https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/questplates
Where? Legion had that one tiny island off of Dalaran with the fishing dude sure but from what I remember none of the other Legion zones were built “with flying in mind” along with any of the BFA or Shadowlands zones. Are there any others that you absolutely cannot get to on foot?
It’s not like biking you forget all the time /s
REmember the old loading screen message of basically stay on the roads it’s safer?
Not since they added Pathfinder.
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Because giving shareholders the false impression that people love the game more than ever and will keep subscribing and playing in the future, as is supposedly shown by high levels of #engagement (time played) means that they extend day to day time played as much as possible so that they have an additional metrics that show the strength of the company.
Investors don’t just look at MAU, especially the large institutional investors who hold most of the ATVI stock. They want several different kinds of fundamentals on display that show that ATVI is a good buy not just based on past performance, but in how well the company is likely to do in the future. Showing them how “engaged” people are still and what products and events they have going up are good ways to do that.
Time Played As Engagement as a metric is still dumb, because now they’re designing the game to maximize the numbers - cooking the books, so to speak - so that time spent in-game doesn’t actually mean that people are having more fun and are more likely to keep subscribing and buying cash shop items anymore the way that it used to when every last in-game activity wasn’t wrung out and squeezed for every last precious additional second that could be added to it. The problem is that we understand that. Some of the developers undoubtedly understand that. But beyond that, the suits at Activision/Blizzard and the investors have been sold a bill of goods, but there’s not really any way to make them understand that when Blizzard’s marketing and investor relations teams are the ones putting the reports together.
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Well, I’m not saying raids don’t get attention from Blizz. It seems quite like the opposite actually.
It just seems like a very small number of players actively push to raid. What is the metric for raid success as a game feature?
It feels like raiding isn’t as popular. I guess all of that is a topic for another thread. Thanks for your answer.
because of the anima torrents in the air, our flying mounts would get thrown into the abyss if they tried to fly through them… there, have fun Mr. Roleplayer.
Oh yes, the horror that someone might like the “RP” in in an MMO RPG.
We’ve been through this. We actually had one expansion where everyone could get anywhere they wanted fast because Flying was unlocked (and we also had this super awesome guild power summon that called a whole raid with one cast).
Development saw a problem with everyone getting where ever they wanted faster. Also it was a pretty crappy expansion, but the ability to fly might have been the best part. So now, here we are, square 1, dreading changing covenants again because then you have to fly all they way out to your new hall and reset your heatthstone instead of playing the game.
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I had a guy a while back try to claim that to get from the Castle Nathria raid to the Halls of Atonement dungeon you had to go this really crazy, out of the way route. He marked the map, claiming places where there were gates there were none and places where they were bridges that they were blocked. I copied the Revendreth map from wowpedia and did an ms paint correction to his “corrections” and it was almost a straight line. People don’t even do these steps you mentioned.
Any actual reason as in any valid reason based on facts and not on total BS? No.
The answer is simple. Timegating. Engagement. If they let us fly from day one, that cuts out countless hours of arbitrary rep grinding or gold farming and 24 hour lockout dailies that people would otherwise have to complete for the flying, which means they get 1 or 2 less 1-month sub fees from people and they - Activision-Blizzard one of the biggest AAA behemoth companies in all of gaming history which has been around for 43 years - can’t afford to be losing a couple million dollars they otherwise could have squeezed out of us.
There is no valid reason to the player or to the artist who cares about creating. Only a valid imaginary loss of money to the accountant.
Anyone who argues otherwise is absolutely full of crap. Being able to fly doesn’t let you “cheat” the system and skip the way Blizzard intended you to deal with something i.e by killing 300 overlapping mobs that give you nothing but XP and only before you reach level cap. It lets you actually enjoy playing the game at your pace.
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it would justify us being on the ground. we’re leveling.
No, it would just suit your contrarian attitude. You just want to see players irritated with the game. It gives you joy.
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it amuses me greatly, yes. but only when their arguments are non-sensical.
why DO they want flying?
At least you’re self aware.
Who determines that? You? So as long as you don’t agree with someone it’s nonsensical.
Enjoyment. Not that I would expect you to understand that.
Oh great, another one of those.