I know I said “no more blog posts about WoD!”. But this… this is something I can’t seem to get over. It’s the debate of this thread; players VS Blizzard VS players that don’t mind the change, of flying in WoD.
Let me just say, Blizzard’s true side is finally coming out here. No more “Ohh we care about the community! You guys rock! You make what WoW is about!”, and more of “This is our game. You don’t like it? Tough shit.”
So I made a post, stating how that Blizzard is pretty much “taking our toys away and we’re whiny babies”, because we like our toys more than interacting with other people. They said in BlizzCon, that they want people to be more interactive with eachother.
Later I got a reply from someone that quoted Ghostcrawler’s Twitter. He says: “we also hate the way folks quest with flying mounts. Swoop down, unlock prison cage, swoop away.” Some say to be lucky that he hasn’t removed flying mounts altogether.
In my opinion? I.. dare him to remove them. Because when he does… that will be the last straw. They should had known, we would play like this. We use flying mounts for more than just transportation. We use them to get out of sticky situations that would had lead to death if it wasn’t for a flying mount.
I personally use them, for a RP aspect (having a dragon form). It’s the way we play.
But, he won’t remove them, because he knows how much chaos it would cause.
Later on in the thread’s cycle, someone posts from a Blizzard response found on Page 6 that I didn’t pay attention to. The same community manager that announced about flying also explained (in very little detail) what hell you’ll have to go through once 6.1 comes to get flying again. The second paragraph, says “Unlocking it won’t just be level 100 on the day 6.1 comes out with some gold, but something you’ll be working toward over the course of the initial expansion release, and 6.1 will introduce the final steps to complete it. It’s such a enormous power to be able to fly we really want it to be more of a key moment when you unlock it, and something that feels like an accomplishment more than just shelling out some gold like we’ve had in the past.”
So let’s go over this. Something you’ll be working towards, want it to be a key moment, something that feels like an accomplishment. It sounds like they want to do something similar with Netherwing rep. Remember back in TBC where this was this one patch where you couldn’t get rep until the next one? I think it’s going to be this. Except.. to be able to fly. >.>
People that just want to fucking fly aren’t going to give a rats ass about accomplishments. It seems we really are going back in time… to the dark days of TBC and hoofing it all over Outland. How “fun”. Just like Blizzard wants it.
It’s simple, really. It’s Blizzard, being a bunch of douchebags. And I think I know why. They are obviously tired of catering to every single group of people who want this and that their way, and have pretty much said “ENOUGH!!!! For now on, you ungrateful whiny bitches are going to do what we want you to do! We don’t fucking care if you quit!”
You can’t really blame Blizzard for snapping. I mean, they’ve been through a lot over the years.
As for me, I’m still going to get WoD at its release, get to 100. Then I either have the option to do this incredibly stupid thing to be able to fly again or log off and wait for 6.1, just to have to do it. I’ll check it out and see what I got to do. If it looks soloable, then I’ll do it and then go home and wait for 6.1.
Then when I get it, the first thing I’ll be doing is giving Blizzard the finger when I go dragon and fly to Nagrand to set up my Garrison.
And if this thing we have to work for, involves having to do a raid with other players just to fly? … Let’s just say they best not, or it’ll be the last time they see another subscription payment from me.