Have Group Will Travel: Keep it?

[Fogyreef]

1000 internets and gold stars to you.

Complaining about having to travel in an open world MMO, is this what wow has come down to? Perhaps a break is in order.

Did you train flying? Take a portal? Get summoned? We all take shortcuts.

Sometimes playing in an social MMO isn't just about the player. Some people may not be accustomed to helping new players frequently, but as GM with HGWT I have the ability to help anyone anywhere at a moment's notice. To me that's valuable. I certainly don't have time to drop what I'm doing, fly to a zep, wait, fly to the spot, help out, fly/zep/fly all the way back and do it again for the next person. HGWT is the difference between 12 seconds of travel time or 20-minutes, depending on where they are. And that's just helping one person. Any player can personally only use it once per session, but I can be summoned many times. So, yeah, it saves a chunk of time. Between GM'ing for 400 toons, three-four raid nights, running four local WoW Meetup groups, learning ISBoxer, actually multiboxing, fitting in D&D, D3, Mass Effect, getting a degree, work, wife and life, yes - I do appreciate saving time.

Fair enough. Maybe because I'm part of an old school mentality from having played the game since day 1, that there's nothing Blizzard could possibly take away from me that would make me angry because 1) it's just a game, and 2) in Vanilla we had to walk to school in seventeen inches of snow uphill both ways and it can't get any worse than that.

Heh. Back in the good ol' days C'Thun was literally unkillable. Kids have it so easy now.