Cross-Realm Dungeon Feature Coming Soon

-Maybe- if it allowed for cross-realm raids?? -Maybe- I'd pay for it. -Mayyyyyyyyyyyyyyybe-. Because then it'd be something of relative substance...
But just for heroics? Eehh. I don't play enough anymore to really pay for that. I wonder what else is included in this "premium" account now, though? Or are they referring to the premium addition for guild chat on your phone and auction house use?

It seems a bit silly to make this a pay item, but. *shrug* Personally I don't know enough folks on other servers anymore to do this myself.

The service is fine - a pretty neat idea actually and one I'd look forward to. If it is to be free.
I don't mind Blizz having a premium account for their mobile department as that is truly something outside the game, that you can easily do at your computer for free. But making premium accounts have any kind of benefit ingame is just plain wrong.

Premium Service? Really? No thanks. I will stick to playing with guildies, and not using Real ID at all.

Originally Posted by Ashaela

So basically, you didn't read a word I just said? I said that some people are unable to reroll or transfer due to already having friends and/or a guild on the server they are currently playing on. The only reason that people are playing on a different realm is because having all the players on one single realm would be impossible, surely you must understand this. Even if they play on a different realm, it's still playing with friends. You can bend and twist it as much as you want, but you can't write "playing with friends that are in another world" without using the words "playing with friends".

This is a good feature and should in no way be needed to pay for.

But it has been impossible for 6 years.
Why is a change in that system that allows you to do some parts of wow with people on other realms suddenly something that should be free?
You haven't been able to do that in the previous 6 years and people somehow managed with re-rolling, transferring or just not doing it.

And think of it from a marketing or even business PoV:
They saw a drop in numbers, they need to make up that loss by either getting more subs or filling the gap with some premium stuff, correct?
Why spend development time on something free that will only be used for a specific group of your players base while a major chunk of them dont care at all?
This not costing money would have likely ended up in this not being created, since its not worth the time invested.

Content for premium accounts=bad, services for premium accounts isnt that bad?

Meh, like all premium content I could take it or leave it. Most of it really is completely un-necessary unless you are addicted.

- Pet's (totaly useless, I hardly even notice them and rarely even see anyone with them out save the avid collector)
- Celestial Steed Mount (cool looking and nice if you have a bunch of alts but totally un-necessary)
- paid name change (put more thought into your name before you make it)
- race change (un-necessary unless your really give a damn about racials or your friends up and decide to switch factions)
- class change (not yet implemented give it time )
- realm transfer (only service that is actually useful but very much over priced)
- auction house on your phone/computer? (seriously does your phone need to be more a distraction then it already is)
- paid mobile guild chat (again only for the severely hardcore that cant be separate from the game for a minute and only)

- which brings us to this paid LFG changes via Real ID friends. For the most part I would assume that if you play this game you play it with your friends. I would also assume that if you play with your friends you would all roll on the same realm hence no need for this service. Honestly I don't know who they are gearing this service to? Who would play this game with friends but not just roll characters on that persons realm? if your guild disbanded and people jumped realm why not just pay the one time transfer fee for your main?

I usually try to play devil's advocate but this is just goddamn stupid. What's next? Paying for shorter LFG queue times?

Originally Posted by fangless

lol, a feature no other game in the industry has, and they offer it as a paid service... and people complain.


gtfo.

because of ppl like this is why they charge for everything, sry but you are blind.

Imo it's not something that needs to happen in the game.
It's just one step closer to servers meaning nothing.

For the reasons that it's so grossly optional, they can charge for it if they want. Not a big deal really.

Now if it allowed you to do raids (perhaps it still will!) and you could have guilds across servers, now that'd be worth my interest.

Originally Posted by dragonx

i wont be using this feature as i think PVE is lam anyways, but i think its unfair to charge for this as some people can only afford the monthly sub let alone paying for this and optional services.

If you can barely afford paying $15 a month for the sub, you shouldn't even be beginning to worry about paid services.

Originally Posted by Mascotte

costing a small fee is just fine imo.

Everyone's entitled to their own opinion of course, and I'm doing my best not to point fingers and stuff, but I can't say that I agree with you even the slightest. I can pay the monthly subscription to play the game, but I still consider the fact that playing with my friends is free since I'm not charged extra for it (until now).
Perhaps it's naïve of me, but I believe that if you have to pay even the smallest fee to play with your friends and/or family is unacceptable.

I like WoW and have defended it a lot and I've been playing for six years, watching Blizzard do one stupid move after another (with some good ones inbetween)... but this is just about enough of a reason for me to quit. I know it's optional and all that, but I have my beliefs and I'm going to hold on to them. It's all about principles.

But it has been impossible for 6 years.
Why is a change in that system that allows you to do some parts of wow with people on other realms suddenly something that should be free?

With that logic I could say that raiding the Firelands should be something only premium accounts can do, seeing as it's been impossible up until now.

Up next: Realm merger

i really don't care how they implement this, the people who want it WILL pay for it (bliz store). it is a little funny how they want us to play with our friends, yet charge for some thing like this, but we have seen in the past bliz can have a change of heart (real id on the forums).

And to the people who are saying this will kill wow, come on are you being serious? no it wont and you know it.

Originally Posted by Eerokhi

Wow Silver account
Wow Gold account
Wow Platinum account

Double Platinum
Triple Platinum

God I hate stupid shit like this, they will not being receiving any money from me.

Its the first time I see "premium" stuff inside a game that is already paid.... I quit wow a long time ago because my friends all migrated to another realm and I didnt want to waste time or money to go with them, now this caught my attention until the "Premium ( WE SUCK YOUR WALLETZ )" part

Originally Posted by Epsi

HAHAHAAHA.... that's what you get for being a loyal customer. Lets get this straight now:

- you've to pay a monthly fee
- you've to buy new expansions
- you've to purchase "premium-services" to get access to things which should be free, because:

- Blizzard also makes money with their Store, with BlizzCon, other in-game services.


This will so fall back on them if they wont re-think it... gl in the future Blizz.

Just a little comment on this. Blizzard loses money with Blizzcon. A substantial amount compared to how much they "make" from it.

Every time activision/blizzard makes ones of these paid perks I always wonder who are all these people asking for this?

would rather have a few new raids

Originally Posted by nogard64

why do they make it sound like its so complicated? If we can already que randoms cross realm, accessing and finding specific players cross realm would be that much harder?

Actual it is more complicated.

Last time I checked the cross realm dungeon finder only works with realms in your battlegroup. Battlegroups are limited to one data center so they don't have to worry too much about how the data gets from data center to data center and if they need to do any encryption or special handling of the data.

This is extending it to all players not matter what battlegroup they are in. Spanning data centers. May seem like a minor point to you but even so this does add another layer of complexity.

as an aside also waiting on the in addition to the monthly fee the pay to play raids and dungeon perk

Blizzard Entertainment - July 17th 2011

- We are preparing to launch a new way to playing our game to our players in the next patch. Patch 4.4 will introduce 3 new 5 player dungeons and daily quest hubs in Twilight Highlands. Not only are we giving you new content, we are introducing a new system on how our players interact with the content. Patch 4.4 will introduce the Premium account! For a small fee players will unlock a premium account which will allow them to do even more things in the Warcraft world.

+ New haircuts, new skin colors, new facial features and the introduction of tattoos!
+ Players will also have access to the dance studio to create new dances for their characters!
+ With the new 4.4 5 man dungeons were are introducing "Premium" mode... which will be just a bit harder than Heroic mode and will reward the players with "Premium Points" which they can turn in to the "Premium Vendor" to buy the current level of epics from raid content! Any item from any boss will be on the "Premium Vendor" including Legendary items. Earlier 5 man dungeons will be folded into the Premium system in later patches.
+ Premium mounts and pets.
+ Cross-Realm Dungeon feature will also finally release!
+ Premiun players will also be able to access the LFR system. LFR system is much like LFD except it will allow players to randomally queue for 10/25 player raids.