Happy Birthday

Community General Discussion
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As a superstar guild master, I know everyone in my guild has a birthday.

I need a feature that lets me (the guild master ) find out their birthdays and send them cool stuff via wow in game mail. I want to do this without remembering or writing down 500 birthdays.

Wow devs please stop working on dragon flight and instead build me an in game birthday guild gift delivery interface.

It’s very hypocritical to celebrate wow’s anniversary but I am unable to celebrate the anniversary of every single guild member spawning on our planet.

Pls fix

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Good news! It already exists! Ask them their birthday to find out and then add it to your in game calendar!

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impossible, how can everyone have a birthday?

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Too much work

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I assumed most of you people congealed in a gutter somewhere

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What do you mean by “you people”

:face_with_raised_eyebrow:

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Forum users

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But what if you wanted to be a rock star GM and be able to send birthday plushies or a cake to their house. We should also get to see their name and home address so that you can send presents.

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Don’t forget to ask for their social security numbers so you can keep up with their Internet security.

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When it is not their birthday:

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Sounds like a cult to me. A birthday cult. The most malign kind.

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I don’t know there are some that will have you exercise… EXERCISE.
/shutter

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I would also like this functionality to be added to the Guild Master’s toolkit as it would allow me to finally realize my dream of running a guild based on Astrology.

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Now we are cooking with gasoline

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I was actually born in a giant peach.

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I’ll take “That’s a GDPR Violation” for 100 Alex

I am not a lawyer but:

Yeah this would be quite likely a blatant violation of quite a lot of privacy laws without explicit opt in as Birthdays are explicitly considered PII. Which is a major NOPE. Particularly this almost certainly couldn’t be rolled out in Cali or the EU because of the digital privacy laws.

If you want your guild’s birthdays… make a Facebook group.

I feel dirty saying that… but it’s true.

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My birthday is sometime between one year ago and one year in the future!

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I mean yeah there would be an opt in.

You get free Krispy Kream donuts on your birthday.

Why can’t wow set this up

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I really hate to be the kill joy here… but as a dev that’s done multiple GDPR trainings. Because the cost of compliance is so expensive. It’s not just GDPR, there are multiple laws governing kids and what PII they are legally allowed to give out. So it’s not just an opt-in thing. It’s also a “What are the local laws for _____ jurisdiction” thing which is infinitely more complicated.

TL;DR: Lawyers and actually reasonable “protect the children” laws made this impractically expensive.

Sorry :persevere:

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Why not ask them to post it in their notes! That seems like a cool gm thing to want to do for their guildies.

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