I am a bit of a Facebook addict. What does this have to do with Warcraft, you might ask? Well since I have one of the Warcraft applications added to my profile there have been a lot of Warcraft related adds showing up on my pages. That doesn't bother me, really. I ignore them with all the other crap that pops up as I peruse the site. However today I saw something that made me stop and think "Woooooow, that's....special." There was an add for a raiding guild looking for new Alliance members on some other server.
This might seem like a smart idea initially when you are a guild trying to recruit. Sure, get an add on Facebook where it's cookies will show it to all the Warcraft players. But what kind of people will you end up applying? I mean, most of them are probably not going to be good players or good people. I just don't think that the kind of person who would apply to a guild that they saw on an advertisement on a friend-sharing network would be the kind of person you would want in your guild. I mean, Facebook is supposed to be for friends, right? (For the sake of this arguement, that is). Well, if you have friends who play Warcraft, why don't you play with them? For that matter, don't you make an effort to make friends in game? Who would want to raid soooooo badly that they would apply to a paid ad that they saw on a website other than WorldofWarcraft.com so that they could transfer servers and then hope that the guild is worth the effort and money.
It's just...weird. I mean I would expect Facebook ads from gold-sellers, but not guilds.
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