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Friends: Do you play with anyone on your list?

radix4257radix4257 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 190 Arc User
edited January 2015 in General Discussion (PC)
Perhaps I am just unlucky (or lucky) but I don't think I have ever interacted with anyone on my friends list. In fact it is rare I ever see more that 2 or 3 on at any given time. Unless you were already friends when you started playing and went through the level up process together, players are hardly ever doing the same thing at the same time. So I really wounder why the whole friend mechanism is even in the game. Now don't even get me started on the whole Guild thing......
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  • query523query523 Member Posts: 1,515 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    I use the friends list to buildparties. Well used to. No parties in this Mod.
  • tonyswutonyswu Member Posts: 223 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    query523 wrote: »
    I use the friends list to buildparties. Well used to. No parties in this Mod.

    Exactly. I PvP with a few friends here and there, but that's about it. It's appalling how anti-social and anti-party this latest mod is. Really disappointing.
  • ebonyshadowebonyshadow Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    I wouldn't have them on my friends list if I wouldn't party with them. The only one on there whom I haven't partied up with so far is Akromatic, we have only chatted a little..... the rest are friends in real life whom I regularly group up with.
  • frishterfrishter Member Posts: 3,522 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    I've never really been that bothered about it. I'd rather be the one to be there for other groups and not have the responsibility to start my own. Or if I want something, I may not want to burden 'friends' or guildies with something that they won't gain much in. I used to play with guildies a fair amount, however:
    1) Content became trvial and so it was unneccessary
    2) Stuff became increasingly bop, expensive drops were too rare to justify the time spent obtaining them, and the rest of the stuff because devalued to the point it wasn't compelling to farm anymore.
    3) You can't form proper groups for tiamat >.>
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  • rollingonitrollingonit Member Posts: 1,322 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    I havent in a long while. I see a few of them still pop online sometimes, a couple are like always online (which in turns, must mean I play quite a bit, contrary to my 0 time played listed under my name on the forums, facepalm, people). Same situation to the 2 guilds that just sort of slowly disappeared I was in. Both were quite active 10 monthes ago. Now I see like 1 person online. Usually only me.

    Legit channel is my go to for most dungeon running. And I just pug skirmishes cause they are easy enough. I dont touch PVP anymore (pvp balance, matchmaking, and just rudeness by the "PVP"ers keeps me away). Though I used to daily, for hours, prior like mod 4/mod3. and always held my own. I am quite bored of alot of things here though. So yahhhh......

    Also its basketball season, college football season, and nfl playoff season; so other things to entertain me while its cold outside.

    Ive also come to realize, as most know these games are revolving doors. People come and go (mostly go). So its not really surprising. (actually it is, considering the other genres of games I play; and how continuous Ive played games with the same people in those game types, I will not go further into why I think this cause its probably against ToS :)) Actually the other MMO i played alot it wasnt so much a revolving door, but that MMO had a relatively tiny community, everyone knew everyone almost.
    We can pretend.
    Fox Stevenson - Sandblast
    Oh Wonder - Without You

    Do not go gentle into that good night.
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
    - Dylan Thomas
  • ghoulz66ghoulz66 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 3,748 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    Only familiar with 2 people on my list(talk to only one), rest I don't even remember....

    All the game is about now is Tiamat this and Tiamat that.... which you couldn't even band together with people you know anyway.....
  • rashylewizzrashylewizz Member Posts: 4,265 Bounty Hunter
    edited January 2015
    Its not as if you can invite your friends to Tiamat in a party
  • ghoulz66ghoulz66 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 3,748 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    rashylewizz wrote: »
    Its not as if you can invite your friends to Tiamat in a party

    You can't even invite people into a party during an active dungeon... Tell em to queue and hope for the best. Such a dumb system.
  • vasdamasvasdamas Member Posts: 2,461 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    That's why I removed like 500+ people from my friends list one day. You don't talk to me, you don't play with me...well who the hell are you again? Only befriend people I play/chat with regularily.
    Misery's SW Fury Soulbinder PvP guide
    WTB Class Reroll please
  • shine25shine25 Member Posts: 26 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    Well before mod 3 I used to run a lot of dungeons with players on my friends list, those were the days, infact back then as soon as I got online I would start getting messages if I plan on doing any runs, hard a ton of fun back.

    Then the devs started making the dungeons obsolete and now all the players I used to play with don't play anymore, it really sucks.

    But now all I do is log on, check guild to see if there are players on, then go afk while the game auto disconnect me. there was a time when not logging in for a day would really bother me, but now I don't even care if I log in or not.
  • rashylewizzrashylewizz Member Posts: 4,265 Bounty Hunter
    edited January 2015
    The devs made guilds obsolete. After GG, barely anything requires/encourages guilds. Now they are making regular friends obsolete.

    Is the target market for this game casual players who play by themselves?
  • nazghul22nazghul22 Member Posts: 407 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    radix4257 wrote: »
    I played World of Tanks before Neverwinter.

    I started World of tanks a few says ago when there was all the problems with the NWO servers. Can you shoot only when you see the whole silhouette of the enemy tank?
    ToD = ..........
    Tired of Dailies/Tyranny of Dailies/Timers of Doom/Tricked Or Duped/Tremendously Obnoxious Dailies/Try Otherwise, Devs
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  • nurmoodnurmood Member Posts: 342 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    Back when i did MC dozens of times i made my first "friends". However its was easier back then to ask in lfg for a MC party instead of messaging people.

    I feel about neverwinter "friends" like about drug user friends at best - not because of the people but because of the system somehow. It is very unpersonal (which is directly connected to the super easy endgame content in my view).

    Well then i got into legit - im not writing there 24/7 - but this channel is better than any friend list.
  • looomislooomis Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 253 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    This thread reminds me of Ron Swanson - Best friend I ever had.
    The best way to play this game is having an attitude like him, I'm afraid it's nothing positive :(
  • wyndrarchwyndrarch Member Posts: 147
    edited January 2015
    I have one or two friends who I contact or run with semi-regularly, as well as a handful of irl friends, but the majority of my list is made up of random people who I chatted with for a few minutes/ran a dungeon with and then never again.

    I've had to start leaving notes just to remember who the heck everyone is. :/
  • kattefjaeskattefjaes Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users Posts: 2,270 Bounty Hunter
    edited January 2015
    Yep, the mass exodus has made the friends list fairly redundant, guilds huddling in the nuclear winter seem to be where it's at.
  • frishterfrishter Member Posts: 3,522 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    verdonix1 wrote: »
    To answer this, maybe!

    Picture this---

    100 people spending all hours a day in a game spending $300 a month on game stuff. = $30,000

    -OR-

    1000 people playing 1-3 hours a day, 3-5 days a week, spending $50 a month on game stuff = $50,000


    I am using the numbers above as an example, but casual, loner is a bigger paycheck than hardcore heavy guild/social player.

    Also, heavy players are LESS likely to spend to complete things because they will actually spend the time to farm the stuff in game.

    I am not saying this is accurate or even the "right" way to do things, but don't discount the financial impact of casual gamers.

    Which is funny when you consider that the price model attracts whales more than casuals who are more likely to be in a guild.
  • rayrdanrayrdan Member Posts: 5,410 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    my friend list is just a list of people i have interest/fun to talk with. i usually dont play with them.
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  • lucifron44lucifron44 Member Posts: 417 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    radix4257 wrote: »
    Friends: Do you play with anyone on your list?

    They all left the game long ago. And nowadays when you get a friend request, it's only because you went to PE and forgot to check the "invisible" toggle and a chinesefarmerdotcom spammer fished you.
    Russian leaderboard first page. The proof.
  • rollingonitrollingonit Member Posts: 1,322 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    I really wanted to rejoin an active guild, I still kind of do; but then they made tiamat in its weird encounter form.
    We can pretend.
    Fox Stevenson - Sandblast
    Oh Wonder - Without You

    Do not go gentle into that good night.
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
    - Dylan Thomas
  • blackfoxaltoroblackfoxaltoro Member Posts: 107 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    radix4257 wrote: »
    Perhaps I am just unlucky (or lucky) but I don't think I have ever interacted with anyone on my friends list. In fact it is rare I ever see more that 2 or 3 on at any given time. Unless you were already friends when you started playing and went through the level up process together, players are hardly ever doing the same thing at the same time. So I really wounder why the whole friend mechanism is even in the game. Now don't even get me started on the whole Guild thing......

    Yes I do play with people on my list, because I am careful to make sure the only people on that list are people I play with. :)
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