(12-05-2015, 02:52 PM)Ryanti Wrote:Oh that makes sense. I would be inclined to agree with Yoshi on that.(12-05-2015, 10:50 AM)Oli! Wrote:(12-05-2015, 12:28 AM)Calliope Cloverbloom Wrote: What do you mean I have to get all the way to the HW zones, and then I also have to have basically completely explored a zone and cleared a bunch of its content before I can fly in it?Â
Even as a not-new person this baffles me to high extremes.
I basically have to do everything that there is worth doing in the zone and explore it completely before I can use something confined specifically to that zone, which I will never visit again because that zone is now basically done. By the time you unlock flying, it's practically useless.
What the hell, SquareEnix.
This design decision was made because Yoshi looked at games like WoW that had flying in the past and realized that introducing flying in the very beginning takes away the feeling of exploration and navigating terrain during the leveling process.
People would just fly in straight lines from point a to point b and never explore, and it would take a very short time to complete quests.
So that's why Blizzard killed flying abd that's why Yoshi made flying unlockable only after the zone has been thoroughly 'warmed in'.
Hope that makes sense.
The real issue may be more on the side of abusive pingpong questing, uninteresting sidequests, and the usual themepark MMO culprits. Look no further.
It is sad, to know that 80% of the time spent in game if not more, what makes you play long hours of MMOs, is actually the mob killing quests and the time spent traveling between various points of quest givers.
And yes, knowing that you can fly in an area, and knowing that you have to unlock X things to be able to, is the most unnerving thing I have had to deal with while leveling.Â
Which is rather indicative of the flaws of the usual MMO questing design. The MSQ doesn't really suffer from those flaws. They did it very well with that little pilgrimage through Dravania, to the Churning mists, etc... It even teleports you to the point of arrival when a cutscene makes you use Sid's airship and the likes...
Am I bittervetting? Damn. I'm too young for that.
Balmung:Â Suen Shyu
