Is a new form of transport really enough to keep players interested?
Every World of Warcraft expansion has its box features. The new aspect of gameplay that Blizzard hopes will capture players’ interest enough to keep them engaged for another two years and will reinvigorate those players that have dropped off in the twilight days of the previous patch.
Mounted movement in WoW typically has all the excitement of listlessly swimming through the air, so the system has been well overdue an update, but is a new form of transport really enough to keep players interested? It does feel fantastic to get access to flying right at the start of a new World of Warcraft expansion. In the past, we’ve had to wait for the release of one or two major pre-launch patches to be allowed to take to the skies.
First, the excitement of a new expansion is somewhat dulled with that annoying little itch in your brain that reminds you you’re arbitrarily weaker and slower than you were before, and second, it becomes increasingly obvious that these new landmasses are designed with ground traversal in mind. There may well be stunning vistas, but everywhere must be accessible by those who’ve not yet unlocked flying, making flying feel overpowered and ground mounts feel frustratingly muted.
The system is definitely a vast improvement on World of Warcraft’s days gone by, but the problem is almost certainly WoW’s almost two-decade-old engine. New innovations feel great, but only by WoW standards, not by gaming standards in general. It’s like when the pet battle system was introduced in Mists of Pandaria – it’s a pretty fun Pokémon clone, but not nearly scratch on Pokémon itself.
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