Comments on: Looking for a more robust “Recruit a Friend” option

By: Mama Druid

Mama Druid — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:17:40 +0000

WTB Tesh’s plan.

By: Eride

Eride — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:51:34 +0000

What you have here is an instant party to run dungeons! What better way to play than to run a few 5 mans. Grab some guilidies, then at least they are not surprised when your child runs over to kill something.

By: freddyboomboom

freddyboomboom — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 06:10:32 +0000

I have a guild with a name inspired by a group of old pilots in a Dean Ing book: Boring Old Farts

By: Herr Drache

Herr Drache — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:34:03 +0000

< points at the “Welcome Spiders” to western plaguelands >

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:12:24 +0000

Brilliant! I was laughing along, but it was when I got to “Welcome to WoWmart” that I lost it. Just awesome!

By: Tsudrats

Tsudrats — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:06:14 +0000

I love the idea of a family account. We have a number of low level toons in our guild who belong to the children of our adult gamers and it would be nice to see Bliz recognise that gaming is socially something that families do together as well as friends. I’ve come across a couple of tiny guilds that are family only guilds. It’s nice. I can also understand why several of you have commented on not wanting to encourage them to level fast thanks to some of the ganking. Actively discouraging this sort of behaviour has actually kept some of our long term members .

Now … if I can just convince our younger members whose parents are not in the guild to stop trying to use pester power ….

By: Blackbear

Blackbear — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:43:50 +0000

Great idea BBB. That would be a good solution and I think Blizzard can easily implement something like that. Loved the AARP name. For some reason it made me think of a few other suitable guild names similar to “Member AARP.” And, seeing as how I’ve got a bit of free time as of this writing, I’d thought I’d add a few more. Please note, these names are intended entirely for entertainment value. I am in no way making generalizations and I am not trying to offend anyone.

How about:

My Astral Medical Walker, Brylcreem Booty Bay Club, Geriatric Guardians of Cenarius, Exalted With Medicare, Grumpy Old Horde, The Senile Scrub Squad, The Elderly Elite, Feebled 5-mans, Squishy Seniors, Debilitated Alliance (or Horde), Fossilized Face Pulls, The Oom Old Ladies, Old Timer Twinks, Broken Down BGs, Flagged Old Farts, The Pensioner Pugs, Over The Hillsbrad, The Ironforge Impaired, Brb My Grandkids Need Me, Stormwind Shuffleboard Club, I Brake CC Often, Keep Your Librams Off My Heals, Welcome to WowMart, and Malefic Enhancement 4 Men.

Some of these names I just now came up with, others I’ve written down for the purpose of making an article with a list of epic guild names.

-BB

Just thought I’d give out a few names for those inspired by Member AARP.

By: Caliea

Caliea — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:59:04 +0000

I like your idea of the family plan. Right now, both my husband and I play, and we’ve let our 6 & 7 yr old boys start toons on our accounts. I agree with Torcth, above, that I don’t want them leveling too quickly right now. I haven’t gotten them heirloom gear, and I haven’t encouraged them to speed level at all. They’re thrilled with their level 20 toons, and I”m trying to coach them on how to play their classes without interfering too much.

We have 2 other little boys that will be interested soon, and I’d love a family plan that would allow all 6 of us to play together at times, especially as they get older. Like you said – buying the game+expansions for all of us, along with monthly fees is looking crazy expensive right now.

By: Eryius

Eryius — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 06:40:19 +0000

Another option might be (although this is also not ideal) to deck 1 character out in Heirloom gear. Would that not offset the experience gain from the Recruit a Friend? But admittedly, although it might help, it’s not great…
Or maybe the RealID grouping could help Blizz implement with this, that you could share this experience-link with (some) RealID friends if they are from the same credit card account or something?

I like the idea of a family package. As mentioned, it is kinda strange that you need to buy all expansions for all family members. Hmm… :/

By: Dabien

Dabien — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:16:43 +0000

There is a way to do this bear, though its not labelled as such, and it’d probably involve a new account to play on for yourself or Cassie. Its mainly used by multiboxers and the like.

From the main account, recruit a friend to a new account, you then have 2 linked as normal. Then recruit a friend from the new account, to a second new account.

This then lets you summon in chain, all gain the increased xp/honor experience, and grant levels up through the accounts.

Not an ideal solution, but a possible workaround to think about.