Do you want flying mounts in the game?

Tigerseye · March 2019

Yes

Ilithyania wrote: »

no, look at wow, zones are empty.

They're empty because, during WoD, they killed the game with lots of very, very bad decisions.

One of those bad decisions was trying to remove flying.

srfrogg23 · March 2019

Other

I enjoyed it in WoW. I'm not expecting Zos to implement it though. We can't even swim below the surface of water, so I sincerely doubt the rest of the game was designed with freeform vertical exploration in mind.

xxthir13enxx · March 2019

Other

No to Actual fly’n-Ain’t gunna happen.

Yes to fly’n Animation mounts.
Gryphon mount walk&jog on paws but take wing (hover) in sprint. Just as a visual.

Knootewoot · March 2019

Other

No.

ESO has very small zones.. They feel even smaller due to the to many shrines.
If people could fly they will be even smaller for your feeling.
Also the zones are not created for flying. Invisible walls, towns (like northpoint) which has walls you are not ment to look inside and a lot more (think Dagon fell which is area nobody is ment to come but argonian sorcs can)

But gliding mounts would be great.

Just like a normal mount and they don't really glide (so jumping of a mountain is still death as you drop down like on a horse).
Think of a gryphon who had his wings clipped. Or a Broom we can ride on.
Dremer hovercrafts?
A skateboard from way back into the future.

Edit: see bolden part. It's not really gliding, just the animation

victory.immortalb16_ESO · March 2019

No

A hover disc (ie a horse without legs, redrawn) that you instant cast would be cool. That would satisfy your need to 'fly' without actually doing anything of the sort.

Flying in ESO? NO. The game isn't designed for it, nor does it need it.

Gliding? No. Again, not designed for it, and not needed. Unnecessary.

JKorr · March 2019

Anyone remember where in this ESO Live episode they explained why there won't be flying mounts?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxigt8ipK1g

I think searching for "flying mounts" turns up over 75 pages at this point.

Daraugh · March 2019

Yes

I'd love it, but I know it won't work with the game engine. I miss underwater zones too, I wish they had allowed for that at least. I get where they're coming from, but I don't agree with it. That being said, if the game had been built with flying in mind, I would have loved it but as the game is, flying would be a detriment to gameplay and the feeling of the world.

max_only · March 2019

VDoom1 wrote: »

It would be very cool.

However...the world in ESO is made to be experienced from the ground. It simply wouldn't work with flying. ESO was designed like this. Flying would probably break ESO quite badly and it would need a massive rework.

Why run through an entire area crawling with enemies the quest wants me to pass when one can just fly over it.

What’s worse than Stuga?

A flying Stuga. Doooooooo yoooooou knoooooow hooooooow loooooooooooong I’vvvvvvvve beeeeeen looooooookiiiiiing fooooooor yooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooou

What they should do is sell a “mount” that is basically a hover emote. Some Mages in Eyevea “run around” by floating.

Svidrir · March 2019

No

What is the interest of the walls of a fortress with flying mounts?

Bone_Demon · March 2019

No

No, because we already have wayshrines.

Tigerseye · March 2019

Yes

Just to add that it is pointless (utterly misleading even) asking anything on games forums, as the posters on them never represent the majority of players.

There was another poll, recently, on here and the highest polling answer, about why people posted here, was "to troll".

On the WoW forums, the majority of people on there said they wanted flying removed.

Then, when Blizzard tried to remove flying, the forums were suddenly overrun by real players - typical WoW players - who were horrified by the idea.

Games companies would, therefore, be wise to ignore the typical posters on their forums.

Tigerseye · March 2019

Yes

Just realised that the situation is very similar to the tiny, unelected lobby groups which unduly influence our politics...

Jayroo · March 2019

Yes

Tigerseye wrote: »

Jayroo wrote: »

you could only fly in WoW if you did a certain amount of objectives in the map, and it was always crazy time consuming and didn't apply to new maps... so regardless of the engine issue, I think it would be cool as long as there was some kind of objective to earn it... like getting all achievements for the map, including veteran dungeon achievements.

But it's never going to happen because of the engine, so I don't mind there being none.

Previously, you could fly in WoW by just paying for the licence.

They only got more and more draconian about it, in new areas, later on.

Now you have to jump through so many hoops that many people have just given up and left.

Most haven't left just because of flying, but it's a major factor.

Basic human psychology is that you don't add something and then take it away, again and expect most people to just put up with it.

Tying it to vet dungeons would be a exceptionally bad idea, by the way.

Only an example. I personally liked how they handled flying.but even if people didn't like flying for the main game, it would be cool to have it in a new dungeon or delve or something instead

FlopsyPrince · March 2019

Grandma wrote: »

they're cool for 5 minutes, then making exploration obsolete and kill zones exploration and people being out in the wild.

Exploration is only good for one character. It is not sustainable.

I would agree it will not happen, but the arguments against it are idiotic. Spending 20 minutes to find a way up to a plateau is not fun game play.

WolfDK · March 2019

No

No.

barney2525 · March 2019

Other

I wouldn't say "no", but I don't think the benefit for this particular game would be very much - especially with all the wayshrines. Played in other games that used flying mounts/gliders, but even they had a 2 minute time limit, and they were more for short flights into combat or for traveling from one mountain to the next. They were not used for long distance travel like you are insinuating here.

Tigerseye · March 2019

Yes

Jayroo wrote: »

Tigerseye wrote: »

Jayroo wrote: »

you could only fly in WoW if you did a certain amount of objectives in the map, and it was always crazy time consuming and didn't apply to new maps... so regardless of the engine issue, I think it would be cool as long as there was some kind of objective to earn it... like getting all achievements for the map, including veteran dungeon achievements.

But it's never going to happen because of the engine, so I don't mind there being none.

Previously, you could fly in WoW by just paying for the licence.

They only got more and more draconian about it, in new areas, later on.

Now you have to jump through so many hoops that many people have just given up and left.

Most haven't left just because of flying, but it's a major factor.

Basic human psychology is that you don't add something and then take it away, again and expect most people to just put up with it.

Tying it to vet dungeons would be a exceptionally bad idea, by the way.

Only an example. I personally liked how they handled flying.but even if people didn't like flying for the main game, it would be cool to have it in a new dungeon or delve or something instead

Well, the point is that so many people left the game during WoD that Blizzard were forced to stop publishing their sub numbers.

Assuming Blizzard are in fact a legitimate business and not just some sort of covert front for armed forces recruitment/secret service psyops, that should be viewed as a total disaster.

Amksed1991 · March 2019

No

I wouldn't mind some type of Dragon/Gryphon mount that you don't fly with but if you jump off a cliff you can casually glide down to base ground level.

DTStormfox · March 2019

Other

Yes, it would be cool, but they should act like normal mounts, same speed, same limitations.

NordSwordnBoard · March 2019

No

Endless flapping at quest givers, writ turn in, etc. Matriarchs are bad enough.

FlopsyPrince · March 2019

you could only fly in WoW if you did a certain amount of objectives in the map, and it was always crazy time consuming and didn't apply to new maps... so regardless of the engine issue, I think it would be cool as long as there was some kind of objective to earn it... like getting all achievements for the map, including veteran dungeon achievements.

Well, the point is that so many people left the game during WoD that Blizzard were forced to stop publishing their sub numbers.

You didn't have to grind any quest to fly prior to WoD.

I don't think flying was the main reason people left WoW, though a comment I snipped noting it was a factor is likely correct for many. I got tired of having to grind so much of the same thing on all my alts. Some things here (like skyshards) are pushing a similar button, but I have fewer alts, so it may not matter as much here.

Elwendryll · March 2019

Other

Hovering mounts could be nice. But that's it. The game world isn't meant for flying.

Mintaka5 · March 2019

Yes

Love them in FFXIV, would love to see it in ESO.

Chaos2088 · March 2019

Yes

Would like flying mounts for PVE zones for sure

Reivax · March 2019

No

Sylvermynx wrote: »

I loved flying in WoW. But then they took it away. Not interested in going there again.

You can't fly in WOW any more?!?

Yvarhna · March 2019

As much as I loved flying in wow, I can see and understand why the devs wish they never added flying. For ESO, I'd like it to stay as it is. We have wayshrines to port easily to other places. Ground mounts for ESO works perfectly fine as it is.

Emmagoldman · March 2019

No

I would hate to think of all the testing they would have to do in order to make it happen.

AhPook_Is_Here · March 2019

Yes

We didn't even need flying mounts in Morrowind, we just flew baby! Levitate+boots of blinding speed = win. We have fallen so far...

TheBonesXXX · March 2019

No

Swimming.

technohic · March 2019

Other

I'll take hovering mounts. Like flying, buy only a couple feet off the ground. just so you don't get stuck by a pebble on the ground or other small things you cannot even see on the other side of your horse.