MMOs have lost their way. Time was, everyone and their grandma had a WoW sub, and they all spent their evenings getting up to great larks in Azeroth. Now? A wasteland. WoW still has plenty of adherents, no doubt, but it’s not that strength which in old days moved Earth and Heaven. And nothing really feels like it’s replaced it; there’s no big, singular, dominant MMO but instead a collection of them, all of decent but not gargantuan popularity.
Anyway, I think this is because none of them let you ride up to five camels simultaneously.
‘This is hyperbole,’ you’re surely thinking. ‘This is a trick by the wily digital journalist trying to get me to read his balderdash.’ While I am always trying to get you to read my balderdash, you couldn’t be more wrong: one of Where Winds Meet’s many possible mounts is being chased by a jaguar. Not riding it—take note—but summoning an enormous jaguar from the ether to chase your character around at mount speeds.
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My favourite is the simplest, though. One of Where Winds Meet’s mounts looks to literally be a normal running animation cranked up to 1000x speed—your beautiful avatar sprinting about the game’s hills and dales like goddamn Wile E Coyote (It’s actually a reference to the movie Kung-Fu Hustle, mind you). It really feels like the devs made all their joke ideas reality, and I have to say I love it for that.
Also, some of them are just, you know, horses of various types, but why on Earth would you use them?
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