So I read that there will be no flying in Draenor and future expansions.  As I read the article I was both happy and sad.

I was happy because not being able to fly makes it more difficult for everyone to travel through the zones and forces players to be much more cognizant of their surroundings.  It makes finding things, such as treasures more challenging as well.

All aspects of the game are more challenging when you cannot fly.  The simplest tasks that would be easy to complete in Pandaria can now take a lot longer since you either have to travel by mount or via flight taxi.

I was sad to hear there would be no more flying because the logic the developers are using is weak at best.  Flying is an integral part of the game and excluding it from future expansions just sounds like a cheap excuse to not include the functionality because they don’t want to take the time to test it.  There are a million and one scenarios that they can design around to include it that can still keep the game challenging as well as fair and engaging.   For example, only allow flying once you get to a certain level, such as 100, a la when you originally had to be level 60 for a mount.  Make it expensive, 100,000 gold for the license to fly in Draenor, or make it a quest chain along the lines of the legendary quest chain where you need to attain the parts of your mount, and it takes three months to complete.  These are just a few ways to make it work.

Flying is useful because once most players get to be fully geared and are bored with most aspects of the game, it would be nice to be able to get in a flying mount and just explore the zones.  Being able to see an area from the sky, especially without worrying about being attacked, is pretty cool.

I hope that enough subscribers let Blizzard know how they feel and that they reconsider their choice of allowing flying.  Most players are already disappointed with Draenor and adding this to the current feeling of malaise in the game will just lead to more player drain.

Blizzard needs to be adding functionality not removing them.  Unless their goal is to kill of the game?

Just my thoughts