Why World of Warcraft Has No Aerial Combat  | 1 Apr 2009 00:25
Why can't you go on bombing runs in Gnome-engineered flying
death machines? Because Blizzard just doesn't think WoW aerial
combat's good enough, that's why.  People lucky enough to get
into the Wrath of the Lich King beta last year were treated to a
number of things that didn't make it into the final product, the
most thrilling of which was the aerial combat that took place in
the Wintergrasp PVP zone. Here you could take to the skies in a
Gnome-crafted bomber and drop explosives on your foes below,
while anti-aircraft machines tried to shot you down to the
ground. It really put the "war" in World of Warcraft, quite
literally.  So why didn't aerial combat end up in the final
release? Because it just wasn't good enough, according to
Blizzard's Tom Chilton. "If you look at a lot of games that have
done flight simulation, there is a lot of care that goes into
giving you that sensation of flying by having the world tilt and
stuff like that so it feel