Introducing the WoW Ambassador Program: Find Your People

Gimme £4000 a month and i'm game.

Sounds kinda controlling...

My only question is, will they hand these out to influencers?

Originally Posted by meroes

My only question is, will they hand these out to influencers?

The program is primarily aimed at Discord-based communities, not individual influencers.

Originally Posted by meroes

My only question is, will they hand these out to influencers?

You know they will, which is what I'm afraid of.

Since the "wow community council" fucking failed, this is their other attempt to PR makeover as they care about the community, outsourcing their own job to players in discords, when they should be doing in their official forums.

Microsoft fired all the CSM and management staff, so it's on to outsourcing the workload to the players! Man, capitalism is great.

Why do they keep wasting their fucking time with this nonsense.. All this will do is make self important dickheads feel like they mean something. This, just like that community council, isn't going to do shit. And then ofc they'll inevitably start making their precious influencers ambassadors too who'll either ignore you unless you sub or know fuck all about the game because their only skill is getting carried (cough anniefuchsia). Just stop Blizzard..

Here, Ambassadors serve as guides, event organizers, and community champions, ensuring every adventurer feels included.

Ha ha..

Don't become an unpaid marketing intern for Blizzard.

Can't wait to see a resurgence of the word "problematic".

Originally Posted by Syegfryed

Since the "wow community council" fucking failed, this is their other attempt to PR makeover as they care about the community, outsourcing their own job to players in discords, when they should be doing in their official forums.

This has nothing to do with the community council and this particular system seems outside the scope of what a development team would consider their "job." If anything, this is an evolution of the already existing new-comers channel that new players get funneled into for their first time leveling a toon. It stands to reason that one of the things which drives attrition for new players is being overwhelmed by the sheer amount of content that WoW has (21 years of development has that side effect), so they're using an existing resource of players to help mediate that stress. It's an interesting idea and it has just as much potential to fail as it does to have results (much like the community council), but it's certainly not one borne out of laziness.

These forums have become the Facebook for World of Warcraft

Look at how cynical all the comments are, when Blizzard is ultimately trying to make the game and community better by trying this.

Originally Posted by Nerph-

These forums have become the Facebook for World of Warcraft

Look at how cynical all the comments are, when Blizzard is ultimately trying to make the game and community better by trying this.

Honestly, it's a pretty stark representation of the exact type of attitude which likely turns off new players.

Next up. Introducing the QA testing program.

Originally Posted by Relapses

Honestly, it's a pretty stark representation of the exact type of attitude which likely turns off new players.

Unfortunately, the game has fostered this mentality for years and years now, so it's expected. I personally loved helping out new people, from those starting out to doing dungeons; actually started doing "charity runs" for free to help players do things like dungeons and M+ that would normally get ignored, and the response my friends and I received was overwhelmingly positive. However, I know my friends and I were probably in the minority, as either people would be extremely negative towards new/inexperienced people, completely ignore them, or charge them a ton of gold that they probably didn't have.

This proposed system is fine to try. As someone else said, it probably has an equal chance to succeed as it does to fail, although I think it's leaning more towards fail than succeed. My question is how they're going to funnel new/inexperienced players to these Discord communities to begin with, as I think it's going to come down to what type of people these new/inexperienced players are. If what Blizz has told us in the past is correct, vast majority of the players who are the target of this new system are not involved on forums or social media relating to the game... so getting the word out and pushing them into the system is likely an uphill battle. Players are probably more likely to get frustrated and quit the game before finding their way over to Ambassadors in Discord communities, and they'll likely have to have some positive social experiences in the game that lead them to the system (assuming even those people know about it).

I think their best bet would be to embed a Discord link to their official WoW Discord server in the game somewhere, maybe as part of the intro quest or front and center of those splash screens that introduce new content in-game. I'd say add it to loading screens but those don't tend to last that long anymore.

Originally Posted by Grinning Serpent

Microsoft fired all the CSM and management staff, so it's on to outsourcing the workload to the players! Man, capitalism is great.

Just like its QA!

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Originally Posted by FatGandalf

Next up. Introducing the QA testing program.

We're already paying for the privilege to test their game.

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Originally Posted by Nerph-

These forums have become the Facebook for World of Warcraft

Look at how cynical all the comments are, when Blizzard is ultimately trying to make the game and community better by trying this.

"Better", like those 'New and improved recipe!' stuff in foods...

i.e. cutting corners to save costs for an inferior product.

this thing sounds and smells like it's catered for '' famous '' influencers imo. i may be wrong but this is what i get from the concept.

why do they heavily promote discord is another interesting thing to point at, while they have their own in-game tool to communicate, albeit pretty much stillborn.

Some nice unpaid work application

Love how people appreciate the ffxiv guide system but this makes people scream and cry.

terrible idea thats literally just reddit and discord mods in the game and that sounds awful i hope they dont go through with this, i rather have AI than power trippy people with an superiority complex who often times end up being terrible people, as alot of those mods are