Cross server friendlist needed

#0 - Dec. 23, 2009, 12:41 p.m.

Ok.
We can now group cross server for both battlegrounds and instances.
Great, this makes it much easier to find a group.

However.
When we meet someone nice, we know we’ll never meet him again.
And someone feels like behaving badly, he know he’ll never meet the others again.

All in all, the community becomes more fragmented.
The new system encourage the players to objectify each other more: To view each other more as technical recourses for class roles and less as fellow players to hang out with.

Blizzard has taken us halfway trough a door, and we are stuck in the middle of it.

Since they have enabeled cross server random grouping, I suggest that Blizzard also enable:
* Cross server friendslist.
* Cross server group invites (maybe limited to friendslist)
* Cross server chat (maybe limited to friendslist)
* Cross server mail_without_attachments (maybe limited to friendslist)

The cross server friendslist should be account bound, with two ways to add someone to it:
1. Be logged in on the same server
2. Be in the same cross server group (either random PvP/PvE or being invited to the same group by a mutual friend).

Such a friendlist would solve a lot of the social fragmentation problem, bringing people closer together, without adding any problems.

Wryxian

#5 - Dec. 23, 2009, 1:48 p.m.

Now that Battle.net is here for everyone, this kind of thing is definitely in the realm of possibility. You might recall a screenshot we brought to your attention a few months ago:
http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=11155578334&pageNo=1&sid=1#8 -- if we can see Battle.net friends playing different games, surely we can see them when they're also playing WoW but on another realm, right? Well, all will be revealed in time... ;-)