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Being able to teleport in GW2 ruined any sense of where I was in the game. In WoW classic the flight system was incredible. You had to actually fly to the dif

by qudat 5y ago

Being able to teleport in GW2 ruined any sense of where I was in the game. In WoW classic the flight system was incredible. You had to actually fly to the different flight points. Like OP it created a sense of the world you were and grounded you to the zones. Not only that, it was an incredibly unique system that to this day hasn’t been rivaled. No other MMO that I know of has a similar travel system. I remember going on flight paths through Ashenvale with the full moon and was struck by how beautiful the game was.

bombcar 5y ago
The travel system in original WoW is beyond compare; the boats, the blimps and griffins, walking everywhere, finally getting a mount - it worked so well. After that long trek through the mountains to find a flight pint - so worth it. Even with a mount you’d still use the taxis (and the update letting you “travel through” was a good one) because it’d auto steer. Once the hub cities in expansions appeared it all was reduced to “hearthstone to Dalaran and hit the portal”.
- nottorp 5y ago
  You mean, the first 200 times you took a flight path? It gets old after a while you know. I remember flying from Darkshore to Gadgetzan took 40 real time minutes where you did absolutely nothing. Do you really have infinite time to play?
  - idrios 5y ago
    I rememeber doing that too, leaving to get dinner, coming back and being still in flight. But still, if I compare that to hearthing to some location, hopping into a portal, flying to some objective, landing at the marker on my minimap to pick up some item, flying to some quest giver for the reward and then flying away, the latter feels so much more shallow.
    - bombcar 5y ago
      Exactly! Would it be nice if I could step outside my door and be in Paris or New York or Mumbai? Sure! But entirely reducing all those aspects "of the grind" strangely makes the grind much more obvious. Dailies dragged on my soul much more than flying between cities.
  - bombcar 5y ago
    Yeah, there's a reason they removed it and why people used the shorter portals; but not having hard things with reasons to do them makes the game shallower. And during those 40 minute hiatuses is when chat discussions would happen (and you'd also plan your questing/travels around that travel time). I'd made some decent money just taking things from the faction auction house to the neutral one and back.

by qudat 5y ago

bombcar 5y ago

The travel system in original WoW is beyond compare; the boats, the blimps and griffins, walking everywhere, finally getting a mount - it worked so well. After that long trek through the mountains to find a flight pint - so worth it. Even with a mount you’d still use the taxis (and the update letting you “travel through” was a good one) because it’d auto steer. Once the hub cities in expansions appeared it all was reduced to “hearthstone to Dalaran and hit the portal”.

nottorp 5y ago
You mean, the first 200 times you took a flight path? It gets old after a while you know. I remember flying from Darkshore to Gadgetzan took 40 real time minutes where you did absolutely nothing. Do you really have infinite time to play?
- idrios 5y ago
  I rememeber doing that too, leaving to get dinner, coming back and being still in flight. But still, if I compare that to hearthing to some location, hopping into a portal, flying to some objective, landing at the marker on my minimap to pick up some item, flying to some quest giver for the reward and then flying away, the latter feels so much more shallow.
  - bombcar 5y ago
    Exactly! Would it be nice if I could step outside my door and be in Paris or New York or Mumbai? Sure! But entirely reducing all those aspects "of the grind" strangely makes the grind much more obvious. Dailies dragged on my soul much more than flying between cities.
- bombcar 5y ago
  Yeah, there's a reason they removed it and why people used the shorter portals; but not having hard things with reasons to do them makes the game shallower. And during those 40 minute hiatuses is when chat discussions would happen (and you'd also plan your questing/travels around that travel time). I'd made some decent money just taking things from the faction auction house to the neutral one and back.