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Blizzard posted:
We?re happy to announce that the testing period for World of Warcraft's new Real ID Party system is now complete, and the feature is now officially live! We received a lot of great feedback from the community throughout the course of our testing, and we appreciate everyone taking the time to share their thoughts and experiences with us.
For those who haven't yet had a chance to try it out, the Real ID Party system allows players to invite Real ID friends of the same faction to a 5-player normal or Heroic dungeon, regardless of what realm their friends are on. This new feature makes it easier than ever for real-life friends to play together, and it's available to all World of Warcraft players at no additional charge -- all you need to do is have Real ID enabled.
To learn more about Real ID, visit the Real ID web page and read the FAQ.
For more information about how the Real ID Party system works, check out the FAQ below, updated with a couple new questions that came up during the testing period.
Q: How do I invite Real ID friends to a Real ID Party?
A: Inviting a Real ID friend to a Real ID Party is simple. Just open up your friends list to see which Real ID friends are online. Click on the ?Plus? button to send an invitation to a Real ID friend to join your group. You can continue to add Real ID friends to your party until the group is complete. If you cannot complete the group with Real ID friends, you are free to join the Dungeon Finder to fill in the missing roles.
Q: Does a player need to have Real ID enabled to accept a Real ID group invite?
A: Yes, a player must have Real ID enabled, and both players must be Real ID friends to accept or initiate Real ID party invitations.
Q: Can a party leader invite a mix of Real ID friends, character-level friends, guildmates, or random players to the same party?
A: A party leader can invite any combination of Real ID friends from any realm, guildmates from the same realm, or other characters from the same realm to the same party. If the party leader isn?t able to fill up the entire party, the Dungeon Finder can fill in the missing roles.
Q: Can I invite someone who is not a Real ID friend?
A: You can only invite members to a party if they are on your Real ID friends list or if they are on the same realm as you are.
Q: Can I invite a friend of a Real ID friend?
A: No, you can only invite your own Real ID friends the party.
Q. Are you considering expanding the system to work with raids, Battlegrounds, Arenas, or to allow cross-faction play?
A: We're always looking into ways to improve features like this to make it more convenient for real-life friends to play together. However, we don't have any further announcements to share at this time.
Q: Will any future aspects of the Real ID Party system be premium-based?
A: It's always possible that we'll add features and functionality that could have a premium component, but we don't have any specific details to share at this time.
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Good. It was retarded of them to try and charge for it.
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Yeah I like micro transactions but if they were to charge for this I would feel nickled and dimed for sure.
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Well...not a bad thing to add. I would never have paid for it though. Also, leaving BGs out sucks for me, since I still can't BG with my friends on other servers. Hopefully they'll add that too.
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Still won't make me want to turn Real ID on.
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You'd think these guys could afford to get a focus group together to test these ridiculous ideas out on. Instead they keep announcing these really stupid ideas and pissing everybody off. Then, after the forums nearly explode, they scrap it and do what anybody with a room temperature I.Q. would have done in the first place.
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hehe I predicted this on 5/17 To quote myself:
http://vnboards.ign.com/world_of_warcraft_general_board/b19789/114937768/r114938231/
I can't help but think Blizzard will suddenly release it *premium free* and everyone will be so happy that they will activate real-id and then, in the end Blizzard will have gotten people to use real id who never wanted to in the past. Remember when the boards blew up because of real id? I still think they are trying to convert everyone. But I may be cynical.
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Ferrydust posted:
hehe I predicted this on 5/17 To quote myself:
http://vnboards.ign.com/world_of_warcraft_general_board/b19789/114937768/r114938231/
I can't help but think Blizzard will suddenly release it *premium free* and everyone will be so happy that they will activate real-id and then, in the end Blizzard will have gotten people to use real id who never wanted to in the past. Remember when the boards blew up because of real id? I still think they are trying to convert everyone. But I may be cynical.
Given Blizzard's behavior lately, cynicism is the only intelligent response possible. I have "Real ID" turned off and it's going to stay off. I've thought about turning it on a few times, but every time I do I spend a few minutes monitoring the Trade channel. That's enough to remind me of why I don't want to share any personal information with the WoW "community", no matter what carrots they dangle in front of me.
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/tinfoil hat
I seriously doubt this will significantly impact realid use. Some people have used it all along for close friends.
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this is a great change. i don't like the concept of realid in general but something like this that is actually worth using will make me use realid anyways. will be fun to play with my friends on other servers without having to transfer all my characters.
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