Comments on: Being alone in a MMO

By: Not even Carmen Sandiego is safe. « morganism.net

Not even Carmen Sandiego is safe. « morganism.net — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:17:43 +0000

[...] by morganism on Jul.06, 2010, under Games, Thoughts In just a few moments spent reading about Blizzard’s new RealID system, set to link all of one’s Blizzard aliases with personal information, I stumbled upon a post that sums up my hesitations and am simultaneously relieved that there are others out there who share my view: Being Alone in an MMO. [...]

By: SomeDraenei

SomeDraenei — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:29:53 +0000

You’ve articulated my feelings so perfectly, there’s no need for me to add anything. I just wanted to say thank you.

By: Kring

Kring — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:17:56 +0000

That’s what I meant. If you don’t use the phone system yet in your raid, I don’t see why RealID would become mandatory for your raid.

Not everything Blizzard creates changes the world. It’s not like anyone is using the WoW in game voice chat or the Blizzard raid frames.

By: Myopic Vitriol

Myopic Vitriol — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:46:43 +0000

Since I have no idea how to respond to the lowest reply by Kring, I’ll reply to the parent.

Why on earth is raiding so important a phone is required? I was in the top guild on my server and only the officers needed to trade phone numbers. It was an honor system then, and I really just do not understand why it became more prolific, especially in BC.

By: Myopic Vitriol

Myopic Vitriol — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:42:42 +0000

Honestly, having had an E-rep, I really enjoyed being able to go incognito, especially while leveling so I wouldn’t get camped for as long as it took me to fly out on my main.

By: korenmolen

korenmolen — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:03:12 +0000

Yes, I want to have more privacy – at the moment, there are three groups who can see my toons – my raid guild can see some (Group A)- I opt into various chat channels on some of the alts – and my social guild (Group B) – again, there is guild chat or a social chat channel, and there are the ones that are anonymous – lowbie cross faction ones, which are actually very calming to play – so far (Group C).

I like the idea of being available to group A on toons 1-4, being available to group B on toons 1-8 and being available to a subset of group B on toons 9 and 10.

I am convinced that it will be difficult to refuse RealID requests, without offence, when they have been in the game for a while – say 6 months. And that it will be like “refusing to share” or “not being a team player”.

By: spinks

spinks — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:40:16 +0000

“You lived without it last week you’ll live without it next week.”

I don’t quite buy it. Did you tell all these close RL friends who every single one of your WoW alts was last week? And if not, why do you suddenly want to tell them now?

By: Moeru

Moeru — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 03:49:53 +0000

Games that offer matches and such usually have game rooms and lobbies. The current Starcraft lobbies are rudimentary but I think they’ll be better come SC2, and offer the possibilities of clans more easily.

By: Moeru

Moeru — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 03:47:55 +0000

If you’re skipping out on raids you said you’d go to, shame on you.

If you never agreed to heal for your guild, and they hate you for saying no, shame on them and you deserve a better guild.

If you’re busy with something else, be it WoW or personal and you can’t attend the raid, but want to…tell them. If they’re angry, go back to previous statement.

Honestly though all the people I’m saying complaining about the system are people without Real Life friends playing WoW. I currently have 5-6 people I know who play WoW and soon someone who will play SC2, and I have 4 on my list already. If you don’t have anyone you trust don’t use the system. It’s that simple. You lived without it last week you’ll live without it next week. If you just now read what it does and were hyped up about it…well, they’ve been talking about it for months now. It was up to you to see if it was for you back then.

If you want alone time that’s up to you, and I’m sure Blizzard will look into getting some changes in. But they want to keep this simple and effective. If it’s not for you, don’t use it. I predict most people who use this will be the Xbox Live generation anyways.

By: spinks

spinks — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 03:44:36 +0000

It might be a communication from inside WoW though, this blurs the lines.

But the big thing really, aside from being able to see all the alts, is actually being able to see what someone is doing in game. Is it really still an outside communication when someone can see whether you’re chilling in Dalaran or in a raid? That’s rather a step beyond Facebook, I think.