WoW Satire: Flying Mounts In Azeroth?

Prior to Cataclysm, flying mounts were not available to individuals in Azeroth. All flight travel was strictly regulated, and only licensed hippogryph, bat, wind rider and gryphon concerns, who were required to display the red Flightmaster standard, were permitted to lease flyers. These individuals were highly trained, and wore stylish professional garb and goggles. They owned and cared for their own mounts.

In Cataclysm, however, Blizzard will be CASHING IN by SELLING OUT the right to fly in Azeroth to individuals. They will realize a windfall of many millions of gold, selling licenses to fly to individuals, and selling more mounts from vendors in areas where it was previously forbidden to sell them. Obviously, millions of WoW players have far more gold collectively than the small, elite interests that had previously enjoyed a monopoly on flyers in Azeroth...and so once more Blizzard follows the lowest common denominator.

The regulations against individuals flying their own mounts in Azeroth existed for good reason. It was owing to these regulations that Deathwing's scions remained forever circling Alcaz Island, never daring approach Theramore due to these restrictions. They knew that should they buzz Jaina's tower, they would be shot down in short order: anything in the air not associated with the Theramore flight master, must be a bogey.

Likewise, Sapphiron remained penned up in Naxxramas until it was moved to Northrend. If flyers were permitted in Vanilla, there'd be no way to distinguish raiders on their ICC drakes from Frostbroods launching suicide raids on Ironforge.

Just as faction transfers and PvE-PvP transfers damaged the game by removing heretofore impermeable boundaries, so too, Blizzard is endangering the well-being of the denizens of Azeroth by removing yet another game restriction.

Many of these newbs do not have adequate experience handling mounts. While I, an experienced stablehand, from my own abundant collection, know how to manage steeds, not so many do. Flight masters wear goggles and fully covering reinforced garments for good reason: to protect themselves from the feathers and offal of the beasts. By restricting flyers to narrow, fixed paths, and quartering them in pens, they manage the fallout. This is also why flight paths meander over wide, uninhabited areas and follow unnecessarily circuitous routes, despite player pleas to change this, wisely ignored by Blizzard - most things like that exist for a reason, you see.

Instead we now face the prospect of the beasts relieving themselves at any given time, at any given place, raining down unspeakableness on lowbies below. Will they not quit the game when they get irked at veteran players dumping on them?

(Thankfully, my own Al'ar is an undying elemental being without a conventional metabolism, and thus this is not an issue for me.)

Will we wait until we see dragons belching down fire upon Stormwind, not intercepted in time for fear of shooting down privately owned mounts, to renege on this most unwise policy? Do we want this to end...in a mushroom cloud?