Would you pay for flying?

[Hankypanky-windrunner (Hankypanky)]

I’m cheap, so no.

[Quixa-illidan (Quixa)]

What’s the point? It’s not like there’s this amazing content I just have to get to.

Exactly. At this point I don’t even know if I’d take flying even if they gave it to everyone else for free. There are so many flight points, boats, rafts, whistles, spud, magical spring unicorn, all to get people from point A to B quickly while keeping us all on the ground (and gasp visible to each other!) like what’s the point?

People think the expansion is dead now, but Boralus and Zuldazar will be literal ghost towns once they implement flying. GHOST TOWNS

[Jøpp-zuljin (Jøpp)]

Paying AAA game price for one feature. Lol no. Nice troll btw.

[Grathok-terokkar (Grathok)]

Essentially, flying is nothing more than a time saver.

I stopped reading here. If you really believe that, then you really don’t understand why I and a lot of other players of the same mindset want flying to be available earlier in the expansion than it is now. Flying isn’t just about efficiency. Flying is about fun.

Edited to add that if flying were made available for cash, I’d unsubscribe and not look back, and I’m not one to threaten that lightly. I will never support anything that pushes WoW more towards the pay to play or F2P mindset of offering anything other than cosmetic rewards for cash. I won’t buy tokens or boosts for that reason. I can enjoy the game without tokens or boosts, but as soon as Blizzard puts something that I find vital to my enjoyment of the game, like flying, behind a pay wall, even if it’s available by other means as well, that’s when I take my money elsewhere.

I’m generally an opponent of flying, but I totally get why people like it. What I’m most glad about regarding your post is that even though you like flying, you’re against the entire pay-to-win mindset of the OP. It’d be basically impossible to compete with anyone farming herbs or ore or anything else if you couldn’t fly and they could because they ponied up the dough. So it’s a hard pass for me, too.

I, myself, hated how Cata treated flying because I’d spent part of BC and all of Wrath farming as many cool mounts as I could, when suddenly literally all the ground mounts I owned became completely worthless because all current content required you to fly. You literally could not progress without flying.

Well, I guess there was Vashj’ir, but the less said about that, the better.

I thought that having flying unlock at max level was acceptable, though I’m more of a fan of the Pathfinder route, myself, because I can unlock it for all future characters in a single go. I get to ride on the ground for a while, then we all get to do things more quickly later on. I know a lot of people love the “freedom” of being able to fly, but there’s no reason to make valleys, vales, caves and rivers with bridges and roads if you’re just going to allow flight from the get-go. It’s all just Ironforge Airfield eye candy to look at as you pass by to the next quest objective marker. Maybe we can do without the Argus-esque mob packs clustered all over the bridges, sure, but I like riding on the ground. It’s not feasible in any sort of competitive setting like farming, or Warmode shards, or times when 20 people are trying to get the same quest to kill 15 monsters done at the same time, though.

[Haven-trollbane (Haven)]

Nope. As long as I can earn the ability then I will continue to do so. I do like having something to work towards not everything should be available with the swipe of a credit card.

[Truthspeaker-alleria (Truthspeaker)]

What I’m most glad about regarding your post is that even though you like flying, you’re against the entire pay-to-win mindset of the OP.

Aye, like someone said above, it’s a very slippery slope. Bad precedent to set, imo.

[Yayayayayaya-area-52 (Yayayayayaya)]

How bored do some of you have to be to come up with these ideas.

[Raiyyn-whisperwind (Raiyyn)]

I would pay nothing. Why pay when I can get it for free just 'cause I logged in and did what I always do?

[Mantoøth-area-52 (Mantoøth)]

This is pretty much what I was thinking. It’d be another huge money maker for blizz. Even if they let you buy it for some crazy amount of gold, people would just buy tokens with real money to pay for it.

[Leesaa-wyrmrest-accord (Leesaa)]

Would you pay Blizz $60 to be able to fly at the start of the xpac? Would you pay $60 to be able to fly at the start of an xpac even if Pathfinder remained and eventually flying would be available for free?

1. You aren’t Blizzard. Blizzard isn’t offering this – and they won’t. So why are you asking players about something Blizzard will never offer?

2. Everything you can pay for (including boosts) you can get for FREE using in-game gold…which is FREE to Blizzard. They don’t need gamegold.

3. Blizzard decided to delay flying 6 months (in 2014) as a corporate business strategy. It has been 4 years and 3 expansions. They like this strategy. They are doing it FOR REASONS. They don’t make their business strategies public (no company does), so they don’t tell us those reasons.

[Bullets-kargath]

Yes, yes i would.

[Sinshine-proudmoore]

That is bait mate!

I would not pay any extra money besides the Sub fees. For credits sure. Not like for some ridicolous credit sink for mounts they are putting out like frogs and yaks and bigboy dinosaurs.

[Daswings-moon-guard (Daswings)]

I would pay money to disable flying from the game. That would be nice, but at least we have classic incoming.

[Maryine-uther (Maryine)]

Blizzard decided to delay flying 6 months (in 2014) as a corporate business strategy.

Maybe it’s just because the developers thought it was what is best for the game and the only “corporate business strategy” involved was making the game better.

It’s an opinion for sure, but it’s an opinion plenty of players agree with. (And plenty disagree with).

[Vararei-argent-dawn (Vararei)]

I would not want to see it buyable. Part of the game, imo, involves exploring the landscape, figuring out how to get around. But I probably would buy it if it was available, because sometimes you just want the sheer convenience of it.

[Ramsay-eldrethalas (Ramsay)]

I’d rather complete Pathfinder and then spend that $60 on beer.

[Flis-eldrethalas]

Yes, I would pay for flying.

[Donutdreams-farstriders (Donutdreams)]

I have a lot of Legion and WoD gold left over. Yes, I’d totally buy flying in a heartbeat.

[Kwashiorkor-stormrage (Kwashiorkor)]

Would you pay for mythic raiding gear? If anything EA and Ubisoft has shown us that people will literally pay for anything. I’m just wondering when Activision will just go all out.

[Bravefighter-wyrmrest-accord (Bravefighter)]

Oh man, as laid back as I am for WoW, even I wouldn’t want to support paying for flying. That’d be sending a giant awful message to Blizzard if we started paying for flying with real cash.