Okay hear me out.
Refer a Friend does not make people play the game together.
Guilds do not make people play the game together.
Communities do not make people play the game together.
The “Join Friend’s Queue” button is alright but still has no reward for doing it.
Hear me out, here’s a very simple suggestion they can totally implement.
1: Friend List Content Rewards. Make an individual reward track for every friend on your friend list. Playing content together with them gives you an additional roll on dungeon loot each time you fill that bar, per friend in your group when loot drops. Upgrade currency can also drop from anything you kill (like Flightstones) if you’re in a group with a friend.
“But people will farm this!” People already farm gold by standing there in a group near a bunch of rapidly respawning elementals and pulling them into an AoE spam group and mass looting. Who cares? People will farm it. GOOD. PEOPLE WILL PLAY WITH THEIR FRIENDS.
2: Guild Reward Tracks. Playing content with your guild should build up a mass guild reward track. The more guildmates in your group, the more guild XP you get towards the reward track. Every time that bar fills, everybody who is in the guild who is Exalted gets a reward, and the Guild Bank gets gold put in it.
Examples of rewards:
- XP/Rep/Honor Gain Buffs that last for like 12 hours
- Additional rolls for dungeon loot
- Being able to pick a dungeon or raid boss that you want gear from and having a chance (that increases per guildmate in your group) when killing any boss at or beyond that boss in the raid to get an additional piece of loot from that boss. AKA: “Those gloves you need didn’t drop from the first boss? Stay for the rest of the raid because now every boss AFTER that one has a chance to drop those gloves.”
Like, these are very simple things that would encourage people to play together with friends and guildmates. Give people incentive to play together. It’s an MMO, please for the love of god stop trying to make it a single player experience. Rewarding solo play is fine, rewarding LFG play is fine, rewarding Raid Finder play is fine, I don’t care about any of those, keep them the way they are.
But encourage and reward people for playing with friends and guildmates. Encourage creating communities. Encourage meeting friends. I don’t care if people will “farm it,” WHO CARES?! THAT MEANS PEOPLE ARE PLAYING THE GAME TOGETHER.
“But multiboxers!”
Oh you mean those people breaking the game rules already? Wow, amazing how they’ll still be breaking the game rules.
“But goldfarmers!”
The WoW Token exists don’t even pretend gold farmers are an issue. RMT is literally sanctioned and encouraged by Blizzard don’t you dare try to use goldfarming and RMT as some kind of excuse.
That’s it that’s my post.
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