Blizzard explains why WoW: Forever won't have Summoning Stones, says 'easy quick access to teleports shrink the world' and 'easily erodes' its core design pillars
THE SO WHAT
Blizzard is explicitly trading off convenience features to preserve core game loops—an inversion of the default “reduce friction” product instinct. For your own systems, be precise about which frictions are value-creating and which actually erode the experience, especially as AI makes it trivial to automate away more of the journey.
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