Comments on: Social Capital #2: How we make connections in MMOs

By: Bear

Bear — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:00:49 +0000

I used to hang out on the roof of the bank in Orgrimmar buffing and healing people as they went about their business. It was fun. Sometimes a healer would heal me back just because he could. I remember standing up there with one shaman just spamming heals on each other because we could.

By: Sven

Sven — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:13:59 +0000

If you enjoy animated emotes, and I, admittedly being old school and all do, then let me present you with the Mother of all Emotes MMO. Or “MoaeM” for short. Rolls off the tongue like the game itself, PotBS.

http://www.burningsea.com/page/play/emotes

There are nearly 200! And it’s f2p now if you just HAVE to try out /arrr or /heelclick.

By: Bri

Bri — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:03:04 +0000

Best emotes in any MMO I’ve played has to be SWG. There are literally dozens and dozens, most of which are different depending on if the emoter (?) has themselves, another player, or nobody targeted.
My guildies and I would play the emote game often. They were always far better at it than I, after 10 mins I was randomly hunting through the command list for my next emote.

By: Copra

Copra — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:29:27 +0000

As it happens, buffing others is mostly reviewed as meh in the busy world of WoW, where people are running from one daily to AH to another instance or something. This is something I encounter with Gnomore, my pacifist gnome, time and again. Even if I go around the alliance starter areas, I have so far received one thanks, one buff back and dozens of characters just run away from you.

Emotes are another thing which goes meh in the population, at least on the server Gnomore is. As a pacifist, I have to build some sort of connections to people, as I cannot go on helping them on PvP or during combat due to the fear of getting one kill (and a reason to start again… no thanks!).

So far there has been no connecting with these methods. We’ll see what happens later on, but I really do not see these as proper ways to …

Oh, Shiny!

C out

By: Longasc

Longasc — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 07:26:46 +0000

I have to talk with people. Chat or voice chat. “Speak, so that I may see you” is from Socrates IIRC. (Organized) group PvP usually requires some talk and often guarantees stronger ties than solo-friendly solo-PvE in many games does by now. I am a bit reluctant to name raiding as something creating strong social ties – it was like that years ago, but today? Of the 10/12/24 people it’s mostly up to three babbling and the rest is silent so that the leaders can communicate over Vent/TS3.