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. Boroher's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Phaidrae View Post
    LAME! First they wanna charge us to change our characters looks/name...Then they wanna charge us for changing realms...Then pets and mounts...NOW THEY WANT TO CHARGE US TO RUN DUNGEONS WITH FRIENDS?! Fucking lame, honestly.

    If they're going to start implementing all of these "premium" services - why not just up sub prices by like $2/month or something?

    This feels like it's slowly going in the direction of "WoW is going to be F2P soon, but if you want to chat/use the AH/buy from vendors/run dungeons we'll charge you $.99 per instance of each! "Enjoy" your gaming!"
    If your friends dont want to play on the same server as you then I pity you.
  1. Rawt's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Shadowdream View Post
    Hey, we have a way for you to now play this game with your friends! You'll have to pay us some extra money to do it first though.

    Isn't it all automated though? What exactly am I paying you the extra to do?

    ... lolnub l2reoll omfgz, this r good feature, doesn't effect u in eny way if u dunt use it lol, qq moar!
    youre already paying 20-35 bucks for an automated 60 line snippet of code to transfer your toon/name change/race change/etc. if anyone is familiar with CRON jobs for web hosting, its the same concept. transferring Y DB data to X DB, and voila, youre on a new realm/new sex/etc.
  1. Kragragh's Avatar
    I love this! I don't mind paying...I can afford it and it's worth it to me.
  1. mmocc59fea6e30's Avatar
    Cross-Realm Dungeon and Premium

    wait..... what?!

    Blizzard thinks they don't have enough money...
  1. Belloc's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Stixxz View Post
    Really... My subscription a month doesn't get me access to this feature? Shame on you Blizzard, shame on you.
    You didn't have the feature last month or any of the years before that -- what makes you think your subscription should grant you access to it now?

    They start charging extra for patch content, go ahead and complain. They start charging extra for bonus services, keep your mouth shut.
  1. Solar79's Avatar
    Seems a lot of people just don't get it.. Blizzard is a company in the business of making money.. they will and should do whatever they deem in their best interests to make money..

    Why should they give a feature like this for free when they can make money off it?

    That being said I have no intent to pay for it. But there is no need to get upset over it. We still have no idea who much this will cost or what other features may come with it.

    I find it odd how many people on these forms complain when blizzard does something to increase their bottom line.. yet it's no different than say Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Airlines etc.. they are all offereing services in exchange for your money..
  1. Collected's Avatar
    Can't see the point of it. Most friends are already on the same realm for a reason.
  1. Zeshiro's Avatar
    aaaaaaaaand BOOM! goes the dynamite.

    i will quit if this goes through, no joke.
  1. chunkycarl's Avatar
    i was interested untill i read the premium part. thats bollocks tbh. we pay for the game we shouldn't have to pay to use ingame features.
  1. Nefastus's Avatar
    Paying for that... Lol. We already pay for the game, why would we pay more? They should stop trying to milk us. We (at least most of us) arent stupid enough for paying extra for things like that.
  1. mmoc1ed7397d63's Avatar
    well there's activation talking for ya.. now i no its a additional feature but really? paying to play the game 2x to play with friends? common.

    GW:2 will have free server transfers btw and will be Free to play... so see ya all there i guess

    FU blizz you yellow bellied, subscriber loosing fools!
  1. johnnyo032003's Avatar
    Let me know when this becomes a free service then we'll talk kthx
  1. 3DTyrant's Avatar
    woooow! something new -AND- we pay for it?! AWESOMEEEE! *trollface*

    but really, we have to PAY to play with mates/family from other servers? fuck it, im going to their servers instead, its cheaper
  1. Gramexer's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Vynistra View Post
    So now I'll have to pay to group with friends who transferred?
    Hahahahahah
    /w will work perfectly, in that case.
    /facepalm... not like this
  1. Senaelanna's Avatar
    The game loses 600k subscribers, while still turning a ridiculous profit, and Activision thinks how can we gouge those sheep even harder? Lets not make our game better, instead we can just include paid services!

    What an absolute joke. Anybody who denies that Activision doesn't have their hand deep in the shill puppet that used to be Blizzard is a delusional sheep.
  1. Lyndétruit's Avatar
    This is sad. I'm sure Blizz is already facepalming at their decision. It will be free, just you watch =D
  1. mmoc4974597837's Avatar
    They are getting greedy now, and it's disgusting. We already paid for the game, and such upgrades should be part of what we already pay for. They won't get any more of out me then they do now though, that is for sure.
  1. Keristrasza's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Stanton Biston View Post
    Premium service! YUS!

    Hopefully this will bring about some premium content too. Maybe even some more premium access mounts, though I'd hope the price will be a bit higher to keep things like TRH a bit more exclusive. Like, it would be cooler if TRH would have been like $200+.

    I'd totally be willing to get in on some premium exclusive raid content, especially if it meant paying $150+/month for it. I think I could definitely get more of my friends to play if it was the case.
    ^
    This is the reason this game needs shot, and buried. Its revolving too much around the person who is so self centered they have to stand out from the crowd, even if it means flaunting money to do it. "Herp derp I have SOOOO much money that I can buy my own raid to make me more special than those poor scrubs!"
  1. Belloc's Avatar
    You guys are some of the greediest people I've ever seen. I wouldn't believe it if I didn't already know how bad this community can be.
  1. Ares42's Avatar
    "With the continued popularity of the Dungeon Finder" ... Every time a "what is your biggest complaint about the game" thread pops up, the LFD is always the most popular choice.

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