Premium WoW Cross-Realm Play

Battle.net has the announcement that Blizzard is working on a service to allow World of Warcraft players to invite Real ID friends of the same faction to party, even if they play on a different realm. They explain why part of this service will be offered at a premium: "As this is a fairly complex service to develop, we don’t have a release date to share quite yet. It’s important to note that as with some of the other convenience- and connectivity-oriented features we offer, certain elements of the cross-realm Real ID party system will be premium-based, though only the player sending the invitations will need to have access to the premium service. We'll have more details to share with you as development progresses -- in the meantime, you may begin to see elements of the feature appear on the World of Warcraft PTR." There is some backlash from users unhappy that this will involve a fee, and the controversy is summarized on IncGamers.
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Re: Premium WoW Cross-Realm Play
May 19, 2011, 18:00
Kxmode
 
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Re: Premium WoW Cross-Realm Play May 19, 2011, 18:00
May 19, 2011, 18:00
 Kxmode
 
nin wrote on May 19, 2011, 12:04:
But the world isn't persistent

You're still accessing different servers with different people.

GW isn't exactly "massively multi-player" when only the town (a glorified "lobby") has a few dozen players spread across different, separate servers, but the rest of the world is instanced for a small party of players. Surely you can see the logic, right?
"...and in stonks, Fizzy Squeezy Stocklebocks leaped over Droopy Whoopy Bondfluffs, hitting 300-gigglebits to their 150-snorebucks. Meanwhile, in Whimsyland's market, the pancakes reached parity with pogo sticks."
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