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| Riding on a dragon will always be bad-ass! |
Flying, the ability to move through the air freely. Be it
for work, for transport, or for pleasure, it’s a wonderful and invigorating
experience. In MMOs the ability to fly is often asked for by the player base,
typically by mount of course. It’s a pretty cool idea don’t you think? Who
wouldn’t want to ride on a dragon, that’s badass!
One of the earliest examples of using flight in video
games in an interesting that I know of is the first Final Fantasy (I am sure
there are others). By the time you acquire the Air Ship in that game you have
traveled to or explored most of the game’s world. Using air travel allows you
to avoid the hassle of retracing old grounds, let’s you get straight to
specific places in faster time, and the most important part, it can grant
access to new places that were previously inaccessible. Sounds fair, doesn’t
it? It’s a pretty sweet reward late into one’s adventure, and even opens up new
content! But the MMO genre is different from a single player game. As I always
tend to emphasize, you are not alone in the world of an MMO, you play *with*
others, cooperatively, competitively, or passively. What may work in one genre
does not necessarily mean it will work in another.
