01-17-2005, 06:52 PM
It's my belief that the time-consuming features of the game like cross-continent quests are there for the simple reason that Blizzard wanted to create timesinks.
If they made questing more efficient, by, say, allowing you greater flexibility in how many quests you keep open, this purpose would be defeated. If you could have 50 quests in your log at once, it would be possible to level through quest-XP much more quickly than you can now. This would mean many more high-level toons hitting the level cap more quickly who would all be clamouring for a lot of new high-level content, hero classes, battlegrounds, etc.
If they made questing more efficient, by, say, allowing you greater flexibility in how many quests you keep open, this purpose would be defeated. If you could have 50 quests in your log at once, it would be possible to level through quest-XP much more quickly than you can now. This would mean many more high-level toons hitting the level cap more quickly who would all be clamouring for a lot of new high-level content, hero classes, battlegrounds, etc.