Comments on: Getting your mount a bit too early.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:32:24 +0000

WoW is dieing….a slow slow slow death

/vom

Soon there will be portals in Elwynn Forest that take you straight to Arthas, give you all your BiS items and you can stand there while he drops dead from the sight of you. HOORAY for casuals :S

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:41:07 +0000

I’m with Peta…
I’ve never played WOW in my life and don’t intend to now, however my libido is clearly requiring your own special brand on “cold shower”…
Or are to just assume anyone talking about (or reading people talking about) WOW is automatically not fucking anyone?

By: Peta

Peta — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:20:55 +0000

Friday is waiting to not fuck sirs… hope it’s full of brilliance.

By: Blotto

Blotto — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:40:54 +0000

I have very mixed feelings about this.
the land mounts i can understand except maybe have epic at lvl 50 but the flying mount should be at least lvl 65 so you have had some time traversing the lands of outland by foot. hell they make you do it in northrend till your 77 even after you spent all your hard earned cash on your epic flyer.
It does give more incentive to start a new toon
and I have a sigh of relief on the artisan cost just spent my 5000g would be pissed if they dropped it!

By: paul

paul — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:13:11 +0000

Shut up, Himmler.

By: luke

luke — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:53:06 +0000

but still one’s ability to just vault over outlands content is still going to be constrained by the fact that a level 60 is going to have the snot beaten out of his ears by any content more than a couple of levels above him. it just gives them the opportunity to go hang out and explore in their own time. i give this 4 watermelons out of 5.

By: Aqualec

Aqualec — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:30:53 +0000

I can see where they are coming from with this. With two expansions already attached to it they probably want people who start WOW for the first time to get in the game easy, and join in on the the two expansion pretty quickly.

Still when i used to play WOW, i loved the time it took for my Human Warrior to level up and get his mount.

By: Taylor

Taylor — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:20:10 +0000

Guys, I think you need to take out those aggressions on this:

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/wri/1185069675.html

I came across it while job hunting tonight. Guess the official WoW magazine needs a new Editor-in-Chief!

By: paul

paul — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:15:03 +0000

No quest has ever been thirty minutes. Do you mean that sleepy druid cretin crossing into Ashenvale? That was fifteen minutes, it took thirty because Manchux is retarded and he kept getting lost. In a quest helping an npc not get lost, our tank got lost. Ahh. memories.

I’m more worried about the outland thing. It means you can skip huge swathes of awesome content, and it IS going to fuck up storyline progression, in that you can literally fly OVER say, Zangarmarsh, go “ooh! lights!” and head straight to another zone. It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.

What I WILL concede is that Desolace and the Barrens suck, and a mount helps. But this mechanic shouldn’t happen at the expense of fun, interesting content.

By: luke

luke — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:10:08 +0000

man, i really think this is great. let’s be frank, it’s not really destroying the game arc, it’s only speeding up your ability to walk across the immensity that is azeroth in the early levels. i remember there was one quest that made you walk along a path for thirty minutes. without doing anything. THIRTY MINUTES. something like this is the only possible way i’d consider levelling a new character.