Remember when in mid BfA we had to fight to keep some portals open because Blizzard was thinking that time on transportation was game content? The community managed to keep the portal to Cavern of Time.
I bet the devs took their revenge with SL and set us on LOOOOONNNNNNNGGGG flight path going from a covenant to another (specially when you’re playing with friends who don’t share the same one) and Oribos, back and forth, severals time a day.
So much content! 
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It doesn’t take long to fly in Shadowlands really. Even from zone to zone.
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Oh my god! People complain about everything thing these days…
Does it also take to long to walk in real life? or to poop?
I have zero problems with the flight path system in shadowlands only reason I go to other zones is for world quests. But even doing nothing is to much trouble for some people these days.
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I mean I don’t like waiting for the flight either. But seeing this as a conspiracy to annoy players seems a little far-fetched.
While maybe not relevant this time, i do think that some decision makers have tried to punish players for making them revert major decision. main example, removal of flying and introduction of pathfinder.
a very bitter action taken when you’ve lost your case just to make the “winner” suffer. even though it was your stupid decision in the first place that led to it!
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It is annoying in the starting covenant quests when you have to go to Oribos and back to Covenant Sanctum, then when you return you have to go again to Oribos, rinse and repeat.
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It is game content. You play mmorpg. Travel time creates sense of the world and immersion.
I think there are way too many portals in the game already. They often break established lore, the Shadowlands being the best example. I thought it was impossible to escape the Shadowlands since its a completely different realm of existence to normal Azeroth, yet a portal just takes us there no problem.
Flight path length is fine. I really wonder what kind of people go crazy if they are are stuck on a flight path for 2-3 minutes. How utterly impatient can you be?
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Flight paths are fine as they are. All I do when I finished the callings is set the flight path, grab a drink, have a smoke and stretch myself for a few minutes
Why “i’m fine with it” makes it ok for everyone? What about we’re given choices? Flight path if you wish, portal if you like it better. Why would you want everyone to go at your own pace?
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this is just like skaters damaging private property.
they dont understand that its not the one time effect thats the problem, its the cumulative effect that does the damage.
one “olly” or whatever doesn’t damage a wall. 10,000 ollys will.
2-3 minutes on a flight point isn’t an issue. 2-3 minutes dozens, hundreds, thousands of times adds up.
cause we all know thanks to rng, we have to revisit places more than we like when we’re collecting items.
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Imagine being so hardcore consumer that you don’t mind staying afk for prolonged times, because “blizz said so”.
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If I wanted a game where content is always readily accessible I wouldn’t play an RPG with such an immersive world.
We will be able to fly between each zone or we will have to take the fly at Oribos each time ?
I can’t see how you equate “easy to access” with “long afk timers” but okay.
On a more direct note - I don’t tell people how to play, yet they feel the extreme need to tell me what and how to play, how come?
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So… over the course of a few weeks, you might lose 1-2 hours to being on flight paths. The horror!
a) SL, and WoW wont last (hasn’t lasted) a few weeks.
b) from that response, i dont think you farm collectibles and if you do, RNG must be on your side all the time so you dont need to go and kill the same mob hundreds of times on dozens of alts.
and even still, 2 hours that you could be doing something else. we pump enough time into this game as it is.
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Can’t say for OP or you but between two alts and a total SL game time of under 80 hours, I have spend at least 4 hours on flying paths
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So your ideal WoW Experience is just a set of portals to every single potential loot source?
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Ppl nowadays wants to do everything at the same time with no effort. They must release a weak aura code for them to do things automatically so they do not lay finger on keyboard.
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