Sep
30
Flying Mounts in Northrend
Filed Under Gameplay
More from a recent interview with Blizzard’s Tom Chilton - this time about flying mounts in Northrend:
“We’re still discussing how (flying mounts) are going to work - we’re not sure if you’ll actually be able to use your flying mount right away. You might have to earn your ‘Northrend flying badge’ at a later level…learn how to defrost the wings, ya know? And whaddya know, you can only do that at, oh, level 78.”
While denying a privilege (even for a little while) that took some folks — especially those who dropped a small fortune on epic flyers — months to earn will undoubtedly outrage some players, for the designers, it’s a necessary evil.
“It’s fairly important to us when we introduce a new area that we’re able to use level design to flow you from one place to another. There are gameplay reasons to restrict your methods of travel. But it’s not like your flying mount became useless…you’re not going to have to pay 5,000 gold again to ride it.”
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