My 7 year old asked....

The reason they don't allow this (as they don't allow flying) is that you have to build all the environments from the beginning with this is mind (collision, falling out of the world, access to all areas of the map, polygon budgets and draw issues because of increased viewing distance at greater height, level design problems with how to limit access to players who can now get over large obstacles etc. etc.) It's a design and production headache. Is that a good enough reason? No, IMHO. It is a scale decision made at the absolute beginning of pre-production, and an easy/lazy one. As a designer I have fought losing battles with that sort of thinking all my career.

It's about time design imperatives took precedence over production and art, and time the industry learned that is the way things need to be for games to be what they could be.

/end rant

Bloody brilliant bit of whining, that.

So you want the ceilings and any hanging bits from the ceiling to be twice as high as they are now? They don't optimize that upper clutter for movement so people would be getting stuck up there all the time if you had your way. You want even larger piles of rocks at borders they don't want us crossing?

This is not a game like CoH where everyone flies or superjumps, you really want to spend development time to deal with something that only a part of the player population would be doing, just so it looks cool?

Because then, players would be able to reach areas they are not intended to.

Imagine if they had to go through all of the areas, and I mean ALL OF THEM, to make them Force Jump-proof.

Yes, they NEED to make ceilings twice as high because we can force jump.....

If they had started with the intentions of "People could have force jump" then they could of designed the maps from there. When you're indoors, it doesn't matter if you jump and hit the roof. Most of the ceilings are high enough to accommodate it, and those that aren't, oh well, you hit the roof and come back down. COH was designed with flying/jumping in mind, and so that's how they designed the maps. BW could of done the same from day 1. To say "it isn't in the game because they would need to redesign the maps" is a fallacy that could of been avoided. And even then, guess what, Blizz redid all their maps to accommodate flying mounts, so it is possible.

And again, if they designed it that way from the beginning, there wouldn't of been a problem.

I should feel like a terrible person for laughing at this. The funny part it, I don't.

you will have better success having him go in a round room and telling him to find a corner.

Its a slippery slope when you try to rationalize things in a video game.

Why does my lightsaber cause bleed damage? Isn't it cauterizing every wound?

It's up to the parent, but technically that's why. > T for Teen

Id be hard pressed letting my 14 year old play this ....