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Premium feature: Forming groups across realms using realid

Urbin

5/26/2011 9:15:00 AM

I was listening to "The Instance" podcast on my way to work and they
discussed an announcement that apparently Blizzard will make it possible to
invite your realid-friends from another realm into a group to run 5-person
instances (with the option of filling up missing people using the /lfg
tool). It will only work with people on the same faction.

Since the /lfg tool already makes it possible to run 5-mans in cross-server
groups it is probably a small change to allow manual forming of cross-server
groups. Tying it to realid also makes sense, since that is currently the
only way to contact players on other realms.

I have a couple of friends (former guildies) that have moved to other
servers (following RL friends), though most of them play the other faction.
Still, that means I could keep in touch with some of them.

Apparently Blizzard plans to make this a "premium" feature (the inviter
needs to have it, not the invitees) but have left it open what that means
exactly. I take this to mean it will be a paid feature but they left it open
whether it was a one time fee, an additional small monthly fee, or if it
would be included in the fee paid for the mobile AH access/guild chat (which
is the other "premium" subscription feature they already off).

I'm quite excited about this feature, though it will depend on the price if
I'm going to use it.

Provided people in a.g.w would be willing to exchange their realid with
selected other a.g.w members it would even allow us to run instances
together, wouldn't that be cool? (Though I don't believe it will work cross
EU/US boundaries).

What are your thoughts on this? Do you see yourself using it? Yes? No,
because of extra cost? No, because of realid? No, for some other reason?

Would you be interested in forming a.g.w groups to run 5-mans?

Ohter comments?

Cheers
Urbin
--
Dun Morogh-EU (PvE) | Juran (65), Druid
Urbin (85), Hunter | Surana (70), Mage | Greeta (65), Rogue
Mymule (83), Warlock | Kordosch (75), Deathknight | Gera (26), Paladin
Sunh (80), Priest | Taalas (85), Shaman | Vargal (41), Warrior
8 Answers

steve.kaye

5/26/2011 10:22:00 AM

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On 26 May 2011 09:14:46 GMT, Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>I was listening to "The Instance" podcast on my way to work and they
>discussed an announcement that apparently Blizzard will make it possible to
>invite your realid-friends from another realm into a group to run 5-person
>instances (with the option of filling up missing people using the /lfg
>tool). It will only work with people on the same faction.

<snip>

>Apparently Blizzard plans to make this a "premium" feature (the inviter
>needs to have it, not the invitees) but have left it open what that means
>exactly. I take this to mean it will be a paid feature but they left it open
>whether it was a one time fee, an additional small monthly fee, or if it
>would be included in the fee paid for the mobile AH access/guild chat (which
>is the other "premium" subscription feature they already off).

<snip>

>What are your thoughts on this? Do you see yourself using it? Yes? No,
>because of extra cost? No, because of realid? No, for some other reason?
>
>Would you be interested in forming a.g.w groups to run 5-mans?

I'd definitely re-sub to play with a.g.w people but it would depend
upon the cost.

I wouldn't like them to roll it into the price of the mobile AH
because I think that £2.49/month is too much and I don't want any of
the other features that it would give me.

That's not saying that I'd not pay £2.49 a month to try it but I'd
really have to play a lot of instances with a.g.w people to keep me
paying it month after month.


steve.kaye
--
Jelan, 85 Priest Clokk, 81 Druid Belugar, 76 Warrior
Kibbs, 83 Paladin Jengu, 81 Death Knight Mingan, 76 Shaman
Miho, 82 Rogue Jaille, 80 Warlock Aloola, 65 Mage
[ Ravenholdt-EU (Horde) ] Yopp, 64 Hunter

Mark (newsgroups)

5/26/2011 10:47:00 AM

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On 26/05/2011 10:14, Urbin wrote:
> I was listening to "The Instance" podcast on my way to work and they
> discussed an announcement that apparently Blizzard will make it possible to
> invite your realid-friends from another realm into a group to run 5-person
> instances (with the option of filling up missing people using the /lfg
> tool). It will only work with people on the same faction.
>
> Since the /lfg tool already makes it possible to run 5-mans in cross-server
> groups it is probably a small change to allow manual forming of cross-server
> groups. Tying it to realid also makes sense, since that is currently the
> only way to contact players on other realms.
>
> I have a couple of friends (former guildies) that have moved to other
> servers (following RL friends), though most of them play the other faction.
> Still, that means I could keep in touch with some of them.
>
> Apparently Blizzard plans to make this a "premium" feature (the inviter
> needs to have it, not the invitees) but have left it open what that means
> exactly. I take this to mean it will be a paid feature but they left it open
> whether it was a one time fee, an additional small monthly fee, or if it
> would be included in the fee paid for the mobile AH access/guild chat (which
> is the other "premium" subscription feature they already off).
>
> I'm quite excited about this feature, though it will depend on the price if
> I'm going to use it.
>
> Provided people in a.g.w would be willing to exchange their realid with
> selected other a.g.w members it would even allow us to run instances
> together, wouldn't that be cool? (Though I don't believe it will work cross
> EU/US boundaries).
>
> What are your thoughts on this? Do you see yourself using it? Yes? No,
> because of extra cost? No, because of realid? No, for some other reason?
>
> Would you be interested in forming a.g.w groups to run 5-mans?

If I still played this would definitely be something I'd be interested
in, instance runs with other a.g.w members I mean.

> Ohter comments?

Yes, my thoughts are that I can't wait for a proper competitor to WoW
because having to pay for this extra feature apart from usual monthly
payments leaves a sour taste in my mouth. As I say, if I still played
WoW I'd probably try it, but the idea that some people are more equal
than others because they pay more doesn't sit well with me.

Catriona R

5/26/2011 12:14:00 PM

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On 26 May 2011 09:14:46 GMT, Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>Provided people in a.g.w would be willing to exchange their realid with
>selected other a.g.w members it would even allow us to run instances
>together, wouldn't that be cool? (Though I don't believe it will work cross
>EU/US boundaries).

I would love to do that! There's a few folk here who I've often
thought I'd like to group up with sometime, yourself being one of them
(although I guess I need to lvl something on Alliance in that case!) -
a shame the EU/US borders will be safe to be in place, since
Orion+family is another person I'd love to group with someday.

>What are your thoughts on this? Do you see yourself using it? Yes? No,
>because of extra cost? No, because of realid? No, for some other reason?

Cost is the major question for me, I don't much like the idea of
paying extra, and probably won't take that up if it becomes necessary,
certainly not if it's a monthly deal. Got no objections to joining
groups if somebody else has it, however, it sounds a great way to be
able to group up with people from other servers.
--
EU-Draenor:
Sagart (85 Undead Priest)
Tairbh (85 Tauren Druid)
Buinne (83 Troll Shaman)
Balgair (80 Human Rogue)
Ruire (80 Blood Elf Paladin)

steve.kaye

5/26/2011 12:57:00 PM

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On Thu, 26 May 2011 11:46:34 +0100, "Mark (newsgroups)"
<marknewsgroups@yahoo.com> wrote:

>On 26/05/2011 10:14, Urbin wrote:

>> Ohter comments?
>
>Yes, my thoughts are that I can't wait for a proper competitor to WoW
>because having to pay for this extra feature apart from usual monthly
>payments leaves a sour taste in my mouth. As I say, if I still played
>WoW I'd probably try it, but the idea that some people are more equal
>than others because they pay more doesn't sit well with me.

Yeah, it does seem like a feature that should be included in the
standard monthly fee.

As an aside - Trion are about to implement a server transfer service
for Rift and they aren't going to charge for it. (I wish I'd known
about that before I rerolled my Guardian Warrior because she was on
the wrong server :P)

steve.kaye
--
Jelan, 85 Priest Clokk, 81 Druid Belugar, 76 Warrior
Kibbs, 83 Paladin Jengu, 81 Death Knight Mingan, 76 Shaman
Miho, 82 Rogue Jaille, 80 Warlock Aloola, 65 Mage
[ Ravenholdt-EU (Horde) ] Yopp, 64 Hunter

Orion Ryder

5/26/2011 3:20:00 PM

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On May 26, 8:13 am, Catriona R <catrionarNOS...@totalise.co.uk> wrote:
> On 26 May 2011 09:14:46 GMT, Urbin <ur...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
> >Provided people in a.g.w would be willing to exchange their realid with
> >selected other a.g.w members it would even allow us to run instances
> >together, wouldn't that be cool? (Though I don't believe it will work cross
> >EU/US boundaries).
>
> I would love to do that! There's a few folk here who I've often
> thought I'd like to group up with sometime, yourself being one of them
> (although I guess I need to lvl something on Alliance in that case!) -
> a shame the EU/US borders will be safe to be in place, since
> Orion+family is another person I'd love to group with someday.
>
> >What are your thoughts on this? Do you see yourself using it? Yes? No,
> >because of extra cost? No, because of realid? No, for some other reason?
>
> Cost is the major question for me, I don't much like the idea of
> paying extra, and probably won't take that up if it becomes necessary,
> certainly not if it's a monthly deal. Got no objections to joining
> groups if somebody else has it, however, it sounds a great way to be
> able to group up with people from other servers.
> --
> EU-Draenor:
> Sagart (85 Undead Priest)
> Tairbh (85 Tauren Druid)
> Buinne (83 Troll Shaman)
> Balgair (80 Human Rogue)
> Ruire (80 Blood Elf Paladin)

HUZZAH!!!

Great news to hear but why oh why should Blizz have to make a paid
service at a time when I don't exactly ahve the extra pesos to cover
this.

Dang you only have that one human. Well your rogue would get to meet
my dwarf girlie priest but your rogue would likely be standing there
next to my wife's rogue and if you outperform her her ego will be
demoralized. Oh no!!!

I can always run regulars with my alts who are not likely to make it
into heroics unless Blizz changes them to 10 minute runs later down
the line like they did in WotLK.

They might as well go the whole nine yards and let these go cross
faction. Now that would be awesome. It would be like everyweekend
could be world peace day and a treaty has been formed to take out the
bad guys with cross faction (and cross realm) dungeoneering with their
friends from the other side of the world!!

OH! OH! OH!

Orion

Urbin

5/26/2011 5:26:00 PM

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On Thu, 26 May 2011 08:20:17 -0700 (PDT), Orion Ryder wrote:
> On May 26, 8:13=A0am, Catriona R <catrionarNOS...@totalise.co.uk> wrote:
> > On 26 May 2011 09:14:46 GMT, Urbin <ur...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> >
> > >Provided people in a.g.w would be willing to exchange their realid with
> > >selected other a.g.w members it would even allow us to run instances
> > >together, wouldn't that be cool? (Though I don't believe it will work cr=
> oss
> > >EU/US boundaries).
> >
> > I would love to do that! There's a few folk here who I've often
> > thought I'd like to group up with sometime, yourself being one of them
> > (although I guess I need to lvl something on Alliance in that case!) -
> > a shame the EU/US borders will be safe to be in place, since
> > Orion+family is another person I'd love to group with someday.
> >
> > >What are your thoughts on this? Do you see yourself using it? Yes? No,
> > >because of extra cost? No, because of realid? No, for some other reason?
> >
> > Cost is the major question for me, I don't much like the idea of
> > paying extra, and probably won't take that up if it becomes necessary,
> > certainly not if it's a monthly deal. Got no objections to joining
> > groups if somebody else has it, however, it sounds a great way to be
> > able to group up with people from other servers.
>
> HUZZAH!!!
>
> They might as well go the whole nine yards and let these go cross
> faction. Now that would be awesome.

That it would be. But I suspect it might not be so easy because it would
mean they would need to add some kind of cross-faction communication
mechanism which doesn't exist today.

Cheers
Urbin
--
Dun Morogh-EU (PvE) | Juran (65), Druid
Urbin (85), Hunter | Surana (70), Mage | Greeta (65), Rogue
Mymule (83), Warlock | Kordosch (75), Deathknight | Gera (26), Paladin
Sunh (80), Priest | Taalas (85), Shaman | Vargal (41), Warrior

Urbin

5/26/2011 5:28:00 PM

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On Thu, 26 May 2011 13:13:43 +0100, Catriona R wrote:
>
> On 26 May 2011 09:14:46 GMT, Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
> >Provided people in a.g.w would be willing to exchange their realid with
> >selected other a.g.w members it would even allow us to run instances
> >together, wouldn't that be cool? (Though I don't believe it will work cross
> >EU/US boundaries).
>
> I would love to do that! There's a few folk here who I've often
> thought I'd like to group up with sometime, yourself being one of them
> (although I guess I need to lvl something on Alliance in that case!) -

Dang, I hadn't thought of that, despite writing about it being same-faction
only.

> >What are your thoughts on this? Do you see yourself using it? Yes? No,
> >because of extra cost? No, because of realid? No, for some other reason?
>
> Cost is the major question for me, I don't much like the idea of
> paying extra, and probably won't take that up if it becomes necessary,
> certainly not if it's a monthly deal.

Yupp, same here. I have no issue with WoW being a subscription model, but
then whacking a premium model on top of that is a bit cheecky in my eyes. I
wonder how much influence on these things the suits at Activision have...

> Got no objections to joining groups if somebody else has it, however, it
> sounds a great way to be able to group up with people from other servers.

Absolutely, I love the idea in itself.

Cheers
Urbin

--
Dun Morogh-EU (PvE) | Juran (65), Druid
Urbin (85), Hunter | Surana (70), Mage | Greeta (65), Rogue
Mymule (83), Warlock | Kordosch (75), Deathknight | Gera (26), Paladin
Sunh (80), Priest | Taalas (85), Shaman | Vargal (41), Warrior

Catriona R

5/26/2011 5:38:00 PM

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On 26 May 2011 17:27:55 GMT, Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>On Thu, 26 May 2011 13:13:43 +0100, Catriona R wrote:
>>
>> On 26 May 2011 09:14:46 GMT, Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> >Provided people in a.g.w would be willing to exchange their realid with
>> >selected other a.g.w members it would even allow us to run instances
>> >together, wouldn't that be cool? (Though I don't believe it will work cross
>> >EU/US boundaries).
>>
>> I would love to do that! There's a few folk here who I've often
>> thought I'd like to group up with sometime, yourself being one of them
>> (although I guess I need to lvl something on Alliance in that case!) -
>
>Dang, I hadn't thought of that, despite writing about it being same-faction
>only.

Yeah, it's a shame, the people here who from their writing I'd most
like to group up with someday, are all either in the US or else
Alliance, I believe - hopefully I'll find out soon that there's also
some cool folk on EU Horde though! I can always lvl an Alliance
character in time, but my focus atm is on Horde really, or low lvl
Alliance (suppose if we find some of us have alts of comparable
levels, those could group up ;-))

>> >What are your thoughts on this? Do you see yourself using it? Yes? No,
>> >because of extra cost? No, because of realid? No, for some other reason?
>>
>> Cost is the major question for me, I don't much like the idea of
>> paying extra, and probably won't take that up if it becomes necessary,
>> certainly not if it's a monthly deal.
>
>Yupp, same here. I have no issue with WoW being a subscription model, but
>then whacking a premium model on top of that is a bit cheecky in my eyes. I
>wonder how much influence on these things the suits at Activision have...

Yep. If it's a one-time payment to allow permanent access then I might
do it; I've often said I'd love to make a one-time payment to open up
extra character slots on my primary server, and so a one-off payment
for access to other things is alright in my book too. Extra monthly
subscription costs is not though; it should be free to all and
included in the monthly sub, or only one-off (reasonable) payments.

>> Got no objections to joining groups if somebody else has it, however, it
>> sounds a great way to be able to group up with people from other servers.
>
>Absolutely, I love the idea in itself.

Me too, great idea, all depends on how they implement it.
--
EU-Draenor:
Sagart (85 Undead Priest)
Tairbh (85 Tauren Druid)
Buinne (83 Troll Shaman)
Balgair (80 Human Rogue)
Ruire (80 Blood Elf Paladin)