I think it would be so awesome and cool if Blizzard partnered with like Fitbit and like rewarded players for being active outside of the game. Like giving xp for walking around or getting sweat credits for keeping heart rate in the burn zone. Could turn in those credits for cosmetics and maybe a little gold that could cover like 1 free repair after a week. I think it would be cool to have a dumbell as a mace so my priest can pay tribute to the iron:)
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Nice try, mom. Iâm still not moving out of the basement.
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Sweety, you need to go outside and play. Youâve already had your hour on the computer tonight.
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I work outside and get between 10,000-30,000 steps a day. Yes please lmao.
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While I encourage active I can instantly think of a couple problems.
First you would have people literally not capable of doing the activities feeling robbed of the chance to have something in game. Someone who canât walk in the real world may be using wow to escape to a fantasy place, now you want them to be left out in the game as well?
Second even people who could do these things probably wouldnât, they would find workarounds like having their friend walk for them or tying the tracker to a bike or something.
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âattaches it to a car tireâ
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You know Fitbits and the like record all types of movements. Even something as simple as arm circles.
Someone is going to cheat on exercising for a few cosmetics, okay, people also mute Twitch for drops. Also that defeats your first point.
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Is this because you had too much mountain dew and doritos recently?
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It is kind of funny thinking about it with the promotion currently!
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Warcraft-Go, you get cosmetics, mounts, and battle-pets by walking around your neighborhood.
Stand up from the chair, get rewarded for it lol.
And the âstopsâ are all historic places that saw war, haha.
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My point is youâre asking for it like it rewards people for anything and it doesnât, itâs basically just blizzard saying âhereâs some cosmetics if you have a Fitbit.â
What happens to people without a Fitbit? Can they have their mommy write a letter stating she saw them exercising?
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Iâm not sure I agree with that.
Like Twitch drops, except with more personal investment!
Well probably the same thing that happens to people who donât get other things? Heck phones have all sorts of trackers like in Pokemon Go you have step tracking. Fitbit is just a general starting point for the idea.
I mean if Blizzard would choose to accept that, sure! 
This is an interesting topic, and again as a runner I would support this as I would get it passively just by living my life the way I do now but I guess I have become too cynical towards a lot of gaming communities, including WoW.
Your Twitch drop comparison is a good one, except everyone who has WoW can get that simply by creating an account and putting a stream on even while away. Not everyone could get this and the forum uproar would be ridiculous. Within an hour of being announced I would be willing to bet money we would see a dozen topics started complaining about Blizzard is gatekeeping poor people.
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itâs FAR too easy to game a fitbit, or any other glorified pedometer.
When my daughter was born, she would only nap if I held her in the glider - and to pass the time, I was playing games on (I believe) the Nintendo DS, as the same time Nintendo started giving our bonus in-game points/items in various games is you hit certain pedometer goals. So I would just shake the DS until I got those points. Itâs really, really easy to game the system.
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The point is to move your body, I even mentioned arm circles. The goal would simply be fighting things like sitting in the same position for 2+ hours and all that.
Edit: You can fudge numbers and data collection, but at the end of the day you are only hurting yourself doing it.
Gonna stick my watch on that outside cat and rake in the âsweat pointsâ rofl.
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And my point is, the incentive isnât actually there for people who arenât already actually incentivized. The suggestions of in game prizes or achieves being easily gamed/cheated in a way Blizz absolutely canât control probably isnât something Blizz would go for - canât prove someone is cheating at pedometer challenges. The part of the community that does exercise will be angry about those who are just gaming the system. Those who are on the fence will more likely to tip towards not exercising because itâs easier. It sounds like a mess.
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Every time I hear someone argue on behalf of quad amputees, paraplegics, and other incredibly and excessively rare disabilities when it comes to fitness and health incentivized promotions; I can practically hear the labored breathing, clogged nostril mouth wheezing, chair creaking posture correction of the morbidly obese in hygienically unclean sweated forms reflected in the computer monitor; the titter tatter of grease stained, wedding band exceeding fingers upon a keyboard encrusted in skin oil, dandruff, and shed hair.
I think there was an idea for a pokemon go style app for wow a few years back. I could only see it as a positive assuming they didnât go insane with a cash shop that affected wow.
Its a cool idea and more people, myself included need to get active and outside or to a gym more.
The benefits of exercise are in-itsself a reward really.
I find on days that I go for a short walk of lift a few weights or do some situps and pushups i generally tend to enjoy my game session more.
Yes people would be attaching fitbits to car tires, but the people who honeslty use as intended would have a great time i bet!.
Could be as easy as adding points to traders tender list? Walk for x time get 50-100 points, so on so forth.
Yes some people exist that cannot physically walk, or exercise, that doesnt mean that people who can shouldnt have options available to them though? Theres still 100 ingame ways to earn points?