Draenor Will Remain A No Fly Zone
-----------"We feel that outdoor gameplay in World of Warcraft is ultimately better without flying."
Warlords of Draenor lead designer Hazzikostas revealed that Blizzard will not implement flying in the Draenor zone during this expansion.
"Having looked at how flying has played out in the old world in the last couple of expansions, we realized that while we were doing it out of this ingrained habit after we introduced flying in The Burning Crusade, it actually detracted from gameplay in a whole lot of ways," Hazzikostas said. "While there was certainly convenience in being able to completely explore the world in three dimensions, that also came at the expense of gameplay like targeted exploration, like trying to figure out what's in that cave on top of a hill and how do I get up there."
He said that a quest that asks of us to break a prisoner out of an enemy camp, can be done just by flying next to him and get the prisoner. Blizzard on the other hand wants us to fight through to complete the quest. Hazzikostas said it made the world feel "much smaller" in many ways, which is obviously the opposite of what Blizzard is trying to accomplish. And while it's possible that flight could return in future expansions, it doesn't sound likely.
"At this point, we feel that outdoor gameplay in World of Warcraft is ultimately better without flying," Hazzikostas said. "We're not going to be reintroducing the ability to fly in Draenor, and that's kind of where we're at going forward."
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