Comments on: Reward people for grouping outside of their social circle. http://ogrebear.com/?p=988 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:16:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Carson63000 http://ogrebear.com/?p=988&cpage=1#comment-5172 Carson63000 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:41:06 +0000 http://ogrebear.com/?p=988#comment-5172 Hi! Just wound up on this post after following a link from "We Fly Spitfires".. and damn, you must be feeling pretty prescient after seeing some of the announced features from 3.3. Well called, sir! Hi! Just wound up on this post after following a link from “We Fly Spitfires”.. and damn, you must be feeling pretty prescient after seeing some of the announced features from 3.3. Well called, sir!

]]> By: Psynister http://ogrebear.com/?p=988&cpage=1#comment-4136 Psynister Fri, 29 May 2009 21:35:57 +0000 http://ogrebear.com/?p=988#comment-4136 While the general idea of rewarding people for PUGs is a good one, I don't think the achievement system is going to get much accomplished for you. While there are a lot of people that love collecting achievements, there are just as many people who couldn't possibly care less. Now, if you included another tangible reward in the mix such as a mount/title/vanity pet/ect, then you would gain more ground with it. Throw in reputation bonuses with the local faction, and again you might find some success. Achievements themselves though? Not too likely to have a significant impact as they are so often and so easily manipulated where people simply meet the minimum requirements and then leave without finishing the goal at hand. As I mentioned in WFS's post with the pingback there, I have had some excellent relationships develop from PUGs that are often times even stronger than the ones I develop within my own guilds. However, I remain primarily a solo player and get my socializing done through the use of chat features or in my guild's Vent server (assuming they have it). If I could afford to run ventrillo myself, I would have a guild entirely made up of social people who I had met via PUGs. While the general idea of rewarding people for PUGs is a good one, I don’t think the achievement system is going to get much accomplished for you. While there are a lot of people that love collecting achievements, there are just as many people who couldn’t possibly care less.

Now, if you included another tangible reward in the mix such as a mount/title/vanity pet/ect, then you would gain more ground with it. Throw in reputation bonuses with the local faction, and again you might find some success. Achievements themselves though? Not too likely to have a significant impact as they are so often and so easily manipulated where people simply meet the minimum requirements and then leave without finishing the goal at hand.

As I mentioned in WFS’s post with the pingback there, I have had some excellent relationships develop from PUGs that are often times even stronger than the ones I develop within my own guilds. However, I remain primarily a solo player and get my socializing done through the use of chat features or in my guild’s Vent server (assuming they have it).

If I could afford to run ventrillo myself, I would have a guild entirely made up of social people who I had met via PUGs.

]]> By: How To Encourage Grouping In World Of Warcraft - We Fly Spitfires - MMORPG Blog http://ogrebear.com/?p=988&cpage=1#comment-4135 How To Encourage Grouping In World Of Warcraft - We Fly Spitfires - MMORPG Blog Fri, 29 May 2009 20:54:49 +0000 http://ogrebear.com/?p=988#comment-4135 [...] had an absolutely fantastic idea for encouraging grouping in WoW, so great I had to write this article about it. He proposed the elegant idea of simply [...] [...] had an absolutely fantastic idea for encouraging grouping in WoW, so great I had to write this article about it. He proposed the elegant idea of simply [...]

]]> By: We Fly Spitfires http://ogrebear.com/?p=988&cpage=1#comment-4133 We Fly Spitfires Fri, 29 May 2009 11:32:04 +0000 http://ogrebear.com/?p=988#comment-4133 I think your idea of social achievements in WoW is absolutely fantastic. I think it would work very well as people love collecting them. It may also help take away some of the negativity associated with PUGs if people got out and grouped with others a little more. I think your idea of social achievements in WoW is absolutely fantastic. I think it would work very well as people love collecting them. It may also help take away some of the negativity associated with PUGs if people got out and grouped with others a little more.

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