Breakfast Topic: How did you get your friends to come back?
by Adam Holisky 
Mar 25th 2012 at 8:00AM
It's normal, it's natural, and Blizzard is well aware of this. Blues have even commented before that they know we're going to play other games but that we're probably going to be coming back to WoW, too. And it's in this line of thinking where today's question comes in.
How did you get your friends back? Or rather, why'd they come back?
A good friend of mine recently got back in the game after I had told him about all the beta and press stuff nonstop for a couple weeks. It also helped that he wanted a real MMO to play, versus some other options on the shelves these days. For him, it was the social gameplay aspects and what looks to be some seriously good endgame come Mists. Of course, the Scrolls of Resurrection helped too.
Have you guys convinced your friends to come back? What'd you say or do?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
gaylen666 Mar 25th 2012 8:07AM
my friends won't come back do to varied reasons. Ranging from money to bad taste in there mouth from past issues with WoW. Heck then there are some that have to much going in on real life to play. So my only person i got to come back was a random stranger that wanted a scroll. Thank god for strangers ;)
recneps1337 Mar 25th 2012 9:18AM
Some of those are actualy good reasons. For the bad after taste ide suggest a different server if that was his problem
Tavy Mar 25th 2012 8:09AM
I never managed to convince someone to come back...however my friends managed to convince me to go back. Mostly with the lure of being the only raiding mage in the new guild they had joined, on the new server...with a new faction. I wound up paying £30 to go back to the game lol. Was worth it....kinda....
Aticus Mar 25th 2012 8:15AM
I came back because of the Scroll. 7 days free but the big bonus was the upgrade to Cata on another account left dormant since BC. 2xpaks for free? You bet I'm coming back for 7 days!
I also really enjoyed creating a level 1 character (a Warlock) and boosting it to 80. I feel like a total noob! I haven't felt clueless in WoW since I started playing for the first time!
Narayana Mar 25th 2012 8:44AM
I struggle getting people to come back. My white whale is my older brother (who actually pulled me into wow in 2005). He left in TBC when all we were doing was sucking at Arenas. It's hard to convince him that there really is enough great stuff in the game to warrant a look- even for free.
vocenoctum Mar 25th 2012 12:45PM
I had a similar situation with a friend I've had online forever. He got me into WoW (I was playing GW1) and after he burned out (in BC), I kept playing. He tried Wrath, but never really gave it a good try. As he says "as soon as I start playing it, it feels just like it always did", which is good if you liked that, bad if you didn't...
Another friend of ours is still playing, and I was trying to convince the first guy to do the SoR. Even if you don't play it past the 7 days, or past 7 minutes after downloading, at least it'd give you the Cata update and move one of his wayward alts from another server to the one we were on, but he's adamant against it.
For myself, I quit during cata with a stable of level 85's, so SoR means nothing to me other than 7 days trial to run the stuff that's out since I left, and meh. If I decide to return I'll do it just so my buddy can get the mount.
eclipse Mar 25th 2012 8:57AM
My wife was very adamant about not playing WoW again because it was "boring". She also didn't like her main character anymore and was not going to a level a new one.
The scroll of resurrection saved me. She loved the idea of a brand new 80 and only having to level through the Cataclysm zones.
Thanks Blizzard. I can now play again without wife aggro.
eliascarlos90 Mar 25th 2012 9:04AM
SoR
instant 80
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thegreatkarn Mar 25th 2012 9:05AM
am i the only one who thinks "BEER!" when they see a dwarf at a bar?
Joakim Mar 25th 2012 9:35AM
It's a lone dwarf. I think it's more of:
*poke around, sees no one*
"Give me a glass of chablis. But pour it in a tankard in case someone notice me."
:)
Noyou Mar 25th 2012 9:15AM
"A good friend of mine recently got back in the game after I had told him about all the beta and press stuff non-stop for a couple weeks"
So are you saying you broke the NDA?
EdGesumaria Mar 25th 2012 9:51AM
There is no NDA for MoP, there was a breakfast topic about just that a few days ago:
http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/21/breakfast-topic-mists-of-pandaria-betas-lack-of-nda/
Parrin Mar 25th 2012 9:53AM
A lot of the changes in MOP were made to bring players back, instead of simply making changes to improve the game. Because of this, there is no NDA on the beta.
http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/21/breakfast-topic-mists-of-pandaria-betas-lack-of-nda/
Noyou Mar 25th 2012 10:00AM
The NDA just lifted 6 days ago. He said he has been telling his friend about it for, "a couple weeks".
antonius.a.mansfeld Mar 25th 2012 8:48PM
There never were a NDA attached to the beta. What he was feeding his friend was probably things that everyone (that has followed WoW news) has known since Blizzcon, and then filled in with things from the beta once people that got in the first wave started leaking the information, unless of course he got his friend invited before the beta testing even started.
Polkadelic Mar 25th 2012 9:25AM
Speaking of coming back, can anyone send me a SOR ?
pghh01@gmail.com
Ullaana Mar 25th 2012 9:39AM
Sent you one from my alt, Altaira. Have fun
razion Mar 25th 2012 9:19AM
I have only one friend on mind who doesn't actively play. He had quit near the end of Wrath, but we still keep in touch (if rarely). When I told him of the free lv80 he could get from the Scroll of Resurrection, I tried to send him an invite. Of course, he's the sort of person who when he quits, he goes all the way. He deleted all of his characters. Before I could explain to him there were other ways of him getting the invite back without needing a character realm and name for the invite, he went ahead and got the free week trial of Cataclysm from the battle.net site so he could make a character to receive the Scroll.
Unfortunately the free trial counts as the account paying for play time, so he became ineligible for a Scroll, even after the week was up. He's currently going through Customer Support to give his case and see if we can't salvage the situation. He also has the option of a character restore through an in-game GM ticket, though of course nothing is a guarantee. I know though that if we can't salvage him a lv80 in one form or another it's very unlikely he'll return to the game (at least, before Mists, provided he'll be at all interested in a Monk or Pandaren). The guy can't stand leveling, so I really hope things work out.
lonelydr00d Mar 25th 2012 10:48AM
I actually did the same thing as your friend with my second account, impatience :) A not so quick call to Blizz's Customer Service cleared it all up. The only hitch was by doing this I wasn't entitled to get the Spectral mount on my sending account.
apharrington Mar 26th 2012 1:45AM
Holy crap that guy has many issues with playing a game, let him die off. :D (Not literally but Jesus.)