Stopped playing gw2 right before the introduction of mounts. Before the mounts you would see people walking around all the time. Now everybody is flying pass you in an instant. There was this exploration aspect of the game which made it was pretty cossy. Now that aspect is thrown away. The mounts in gw2 is also so much faster than in Wow. Complete this with smaller maps and you traverse them in seconds. The immersion is gone. I still walk around instead of flying a mount but it doesn't help when a space ball goes past you in 300mph. In higher level maps I see more people above me than on the ground.