Which is a crying shame. The PLAYERS meanwhile OVERWHELMINGLY prefer Ravenloft-style teleports.
They barely ever post. Them not showing up because a few people on the forums are issuing ultimatums isn't all that shocking.
This.
So here's the part of this that has me scratching my head: he doesn't want to put in quest teleporters so we can "appreciate the wilderness area".
It’s simple; they want to burn your exp pots as you run around trying to g to find quests.
Again: how many XP potions does he think I am going to burn when I don't buy the content?
DING DING!
This is not a claim. This is just a fact.
Yeah. I play the wilderness. Just yesterday I was slaying while chatting with people about transfers and preorder. But when I want to quest, I don't want to waste time navigating the wilderness. I don't want to join a group in progress and have them waiting for me to finish the quest.
What percentage of the PLAYERS have you ever talked to? Your facts are all based on the negativity in the forums which is a very small percentage of the player base. We have your opinion, don't try to tell the rest of us what our opinions are please.
Almost everyone I've talked to about the game says the same thing: teleporters are preferable. Some of them like slayering and farming in the wilderness (but not wasting time in it when they want to quest), others don't like wilderness and never play it. Very few of them are indifferent to having teleporters, though even those complain that there's too much walking in MD. None of them seem to think teleporters are a bad idea. Most of those people don't even visit the forums.
I don't think this is true. The only person I see insisting on direct teleporters is you. Personally I prefer location-type teleports as in GH, Cogs and IoD. Sure, some other players will also want Ravenloft teleports, but acting like the vast majority of players want something because you really want it is disingenuous. So it makes your posts seem less credible.
Spamming the general forum is not going to get you an answer more quickly. You're almost as bad as a certain poster who spammed the general forum with polls. No idea if he still does it, since I ignored him long ago.
Source?
Apparently we got worst of both worlds in MD. Quests all over the place like in Ravenloft, but no teleporters. If Sev "won" then the quests would have no tele but close together (Borderlands) or a good pretty short loop (ex. Saltmarsh) instead of long zig-zag and recall.
Cog teleporters are almost redundant because the wilderness is so small (or rather, the quests are mostly concentrated in an area near the entrance), but in reality, many of them are poorly placed (does anyone use the village one? It's faster run from the entrance).