Comments on: WoW Armory Facebook App – Why?

By: Gordon

Gordon — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:55:49 +0000

It’s their marketing wheels in motion, no doubt. Kudos to Blizzard because I’m sure it help give WoW exposure and more success. However, it’s definitely a case of a company driving a product rather than do what the users want.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:54:30 +0000

I’m not completely immune to the irony, trust me However, there’s a big difference in my mind. A blog should deliver interesting opinions that the writer has carefully crafted and written, it’s not an automated feed just spamming pointless micro-achievements of someone’s online adventures.

Let’s use a metaphor: I like having conversations about MMORPGs with my friends but I hate getting automated text messages from people I barely know telling me that they’ve gained a level in a video game.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:51:03 +0000

Agreed. I think it’s a lot more fun too cause we actually get the pleasure of telling people about a major achievement we’ve done that we’re proud of rather than just an automated feed doing it for us.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:50:06 +0000

Absolutely.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:49:56 +0000

It’s true, I don’t actually play any Facebook games. Don’t get me wrong, I can totally understand why Blizzard want this. The more they can get people to talk about WoW, the more success the game will have and the more money they will make. It makes perfect sense for Blizzard.

What I don’t get though is why we, the users, would want it. I really don’t need to tell everyone on my Facebook list everytime I complete a micro-achievement in WoW and I’m sure they don’t care and don’t want to spammed with it.

Yep, I’m one of those guys who hates getting notifications on Facebook that someone has done something utterly random and meaningless in Mafia Wars. Ugh!

By: Gordon

Gordon — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:46:09 +0000

Indeed. We could pretty much question the need for any of this stuff – Facebook, twitter, blogs. I actually do quite a lot and since I started blogging, I feel overwhelmed by it all sometimes and just want to escape.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:45:19 +0000

I’d rather see farm animals and boobs than someone’s WoW achievements.

Wait.

That sounded all wrong.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:44:31 +0000

I think a AH app would be useful although it’s probably too complex to appear on Facebook; they’re developing one of the iPhone after all plus they want to charge for it.

By: Wolfshead

Wolfshead — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:01:30 +0000

This is just another fad. Please wake me up when it’s over and by then they’ll be another new fad/bandwagon that everyone will be jumping on.

I’m sure glad Blizzard has the resources to develop Facebook, Iphone apps, beer steins, lunch boxes and Blizzard Happy Meals instead of putting the time into WoW to make it more immersive and fixing bugs.

By: xabbott

xabbott — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:39:54 +0000

How original, another post questioning why we need social networks and integrations of said networks in to various online/offline activity.

But a Blog is *totally* normal and understandable. ::sigh::