Cross-Realm Dungeon Feature Coming Soon
Originally Posted by Slorkuz (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
With the continued popularity of the Dungeon Finder, many players have been asking for a way to group up with real-life friends who play on other realms to take on instances together. Today, we wanted to give you a heads up about a new feature currently in development that will allow players to invite Real ID friends of the same faction to a party regardless of the realm they play on, and then queue up for a 5-player regular or Heroic dungeon.

As this is a fairly complex service to develop, we don’t have a release date to share quite yet. It’s important to note that as with some of the other convenience- and connectivity-oriented features we offer, certain elements of the cross-realm Real ID party system will be premium-based, though only the player sending the invitations will need to have access to the premium service. We'll have more details to share with you as development progresses -- in the meantime, you may begin to see elements of the feature appear on the World of Warcraft PTR.
This article was originally published in forum thread: Cross-Realm Dungeon Feature Coming Soon started by Boubouille View original post
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  1. Cows For Life's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Ranor View Post
    That isn't splitting hairs. You're flat out wrong. You'd be correct if they suddenly limited RDF to paying customers only, however they're adding an optional feature that changes nothing about RDF for the masses.
    I'm willing to bet that implementing this feature with the RDF and RID (given the features that are already in the game) required next to nothing new at all.

    I'm further willing to bet that this was already in the game when RID and just not active.

    From a code standpoint I doubt they did more than maybe an hours worth of work on top of what they had already done to get those two features out.
  1. Ranor's Avatar
    The RealID thing was on a COMPLETELY different level than this. That warranted complaints and outrage. Having personal information exposed to those you game with is a breach of personal security of the highest order.

    People can't even use that in an argument. lol
  1. KCguy's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Gratlim View Post
    Just cancelled my account.
    Over a cross realm thing that in all likely hood will be changed down the road? Okay.
  1. Nozyk's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Brodeo View Post
    What concept? Paying for services? Do you pay admission at amusement park and bitch cuz the cotton candy isnt free?
    What? You used the wrong example; it's like paying for admission at an amusement park, and then paying to ride the roller coaster.
  1. Puremallace's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by sTyLnK View Post
    Over a cross realm thing that in all likely hood will be changed down the road? Okay.
    The guy has a point. It starts out slow like this. This is B2P meets P2P model in it's worst form. How soon until certain content goes "premium"?
  1. Ranor's Avatar
    If Blizzard ever implements a paid feature that ACTUALLY impacts gameplay and gives some players the upperhand over others, then people have a basis for complaint. Until that day, this is just a bunch of needless whining from people who seem to have a strong sense of entitlement.
  1. KCguy's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Ranor View Post
    The RealID thing was on a COMPLETELY different level than this. That warranted complaints and outrage. Having personal information exposed to those you game with is a breach of personal security of the highest order.

    People can't even use that in an argument. lol
    I just meant in terms of of the volume of outraged people. Blizzard usually tends to back track when it grows pretty big. I know the Real ID thing was completely different, but the only reason they back tracked was because of so many complaints. If there hadn't been they would have gone ahead with it. The power of bitching can go a long way.

    ---------- Post added 2011-05-18 at 05:28 AM ----------

    Quote Originally Posted by Puremallace View Post
    The guy has a point. It starts out slow like this. This is B2P meets P2P model in it's worst form. How soon until certain content goes "premium"?
    Maybe Blizzard is going the route of LOTRO.
  1. Puremallace's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Ranor View Post
    If Blizzard ever implements a paid feature that ACTUALLY impacts gameplay and gives some players the upperhand over others, then people have a basis for complaint. Until that day, this is just a bunch of needless whining from people who seem to have a strong sense of entitlement.
    Here is why this is a slippery slope and why it will guarantee to backfire. The next obvious question is this. "You want me to pay for premium just for this? What else do I get?"

    You can tell this is a Activision concept and not a Blizzard concept. When is the last time the MMO company actually ran WoW? The game is being run like a business.
  1. Toysolja's Avatar
    this is the best idea blizz has evey had in a while , just wish it wasn't a PREMIUM PACKAGE!!!!!!
  1. HeartlessJack1's Avatar
    World of Casualcraft: The Casualclysm
  1. Tinykong's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Brodeo View Post
    How so? Does your cable get cheaper every year? It costs money to run a company. You paid for a FRACTION of what cata cost to make when you got it, but you didnt pay for 4.1 or 4.2 or anything else. $15 per month is a tiny expense for the amount of features and content blizzard rolls out. And on top of that, they employ the best in the business.

    If you dont like that you have to pay for this, dont use it. If playing with your friends was so important, youd have swapped servers by now (and spent the money). If blizzard never posted this you would have nothing to bitch about, so pretend they didnt.
    $49.99 is a fraction of the cost to provide the content they did? If that's the case, why all the revamped content?

    Most games are $49.99-59.99 and include an entire game engine, sometimes built from the ground up, often times a free and robust multiplayer experience, and sometimes even include free updates. Wow has been on the same engine since release, and has only seen new models and zones. They aren't re-inventing the wheel.
  1. Ranor's Avatar
    You people love fallacies, don't you?

    There -is- such thing as a middle ground, I'm not sure if you've ever realized this.
  1. Knirps's Avatar
    roflmao...

    'premium based'

    That's a whole bad direction I don't even want to think about.

    What's next, 'premium' teir? Pets? Mounts? Spells? Classes?

    Fuck off, Blizzard.
  1. Miahpants's Avatar
    It makes it sound as if they have designed a system that encourages fighting with your friends over who should pay for the privilege to play together.

    My advice: scrap the premium requirement for this single feature, or make all RealID features a premium service.
  1. guitar3544's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Ranor View Post
    If Blizzard ever implements a paid feature that ACTUALLY impacts gameplay and gives some players the upperhand over others, then people have a basis for complaint. Until that day, this is just a bunch of needless whining from people who seem to have a strong sense of entitlement.
    Yes yes, we know. Entitlement is your favorite word. You've said the same thing how many times over this thread?

    The bitching is coming mostly because this is a slippery slope. Mounts are one thing, but this is a change that directly changes the core gameplay (or can, with cash!). This opens the door for a ton of other paid in-game features. It's not far off before core mechanics are pay for use. Auction house? Sure! $2 a month extra please. etc.
  1. drakonblayde's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Miahpants View Post
    It makes it sound as if they have designed a system that encourages fighting with your friends over who should pay for the privilege to play together.

    My advice: scrap the premium requirement for this single feature, or make all RealID features a premium service.
    That's probably the most sensible answer I've seen to this. Lump all the RealID content into a premium package, and call it a day. Then there's no gameplay advantage, just interactivity bonus features.
  1. StoNe220022's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Cows For Life View Post
    I'm willing to bet that implementing this feature with the RDF and RID (given the features that are already in the game) required next to nothing new at all.
    ^^^ This

    We already used to time specific normal instance queuing, my brother as a healer on Frostmourne, I as tank on Barthilas...and we'd happen to join the same instance. Once we were paired up x-realm, and the 15 min cool down was up, we kept tapping the random button and farmed some heroics together....was fun
  1. Cows For Life's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by guitar3544 View Post
    Yes yes, we know. Entitlement is your favorite word. You've said the same thing how many times over this thread?

    The bitching is coming mostly because this is a slippery slope. Mounts are one thing, but this is a change that directly changes the core gameplay (or can, with cash!). This opens the door for a ton of other paid in-game features. It's not far off before core mechanics are pay for use. Auction house? Sure! $2 a month extra please. etc.
    The slippery slope actually started a while ago. I think it might have been when they allowed people to pay to transfer from PVE->PVP.
  1. Entaaro's Avatar
    why do different realms even exist anymore :S (rhetorical, exaggerated statement - refrain from commenting)
  1. crakerjack's Avatar
    Not sure why people are getting mad, you DON'T have to use this. You could just level a toon on your friends realm, or they could do the same thing. It's really not that hard. If you really want to play with friends, level a toon or xfer one of your toons. "Herpdy Derp, i have a life and can't do that" 95% of everyone who plays wow spends more than half their time in trade doing nothing, trust me, i do it too. As long as they don't increase the monthly fee, i don't care what they do.

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