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New Real ID Party Feature Now Live

by Blizzard Entertainment Aug 16, 2011 7:00 AM PDT
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New Real ID Party Feature Now Live

We’re happy to announce that the testing period for World of Warcraft's new Real ID Party system is now complete, and the feature is now officially live! We received a lot of great feedback from the community throughout the course of our testing, and we appreciate everyone taking the time to share their thoughts and experiences with us.

For those who haven't yet had a chance to try it out, the Real ID Party system allows players to invite Real ID friends of the same faction to a 5-player normal or Heroic dungeon, regardless of what realm their friends are on. This new feature makes it easier than ever for real-life friends to play together, and it's available to all World of Warcraft players at no additional charge -- all you need to do is have Real ID enabled.

To learn more about Real ID, visit the Real ID web page and read the FAQ.

For more information about how the Real ID Party system works, check out the FAQ below, updated with a couple new questions that came up during the testing period.

Q: How do I invite Real ID friends to a Real ID Party?
A: Inviting a Real ID friend to a Real ID Party is simple. Just open up your friends list to see which Real ID friends are online. Click on the “Plus” button to send an invitation to a Real ID friend to join your group. You can continue to add Real ID friends to your party until the group is complete. If you cannot complete the group with Real ID friends, you are free to join the Dungeon Finder to fill in the missing roles. 

Q: Does a player need to have Real ID enabled to accept a Real ID group invite?
A: Yes, a player must have Real ID enabled, and both players must be Real ID friends to accept or initiate Real ID party invitations.

Q: Can a party leader invite a mix of Real ID friends, character-level friends, guildmates, or random players to the same party?
A: A party leader can invite any combination of Real ID friends from any realm, guildmates from the same realm, or other characters from the same realm to the same party. If the party leader isn’t able to fill up the entire party, the Dungeon Finder can fill in the missing roles.

Q: Can I invite someone who is not a Real ID friend?
A: You can only invite members to a party if they are on your Real ID friends list or if they are on the same realm as you are.

Q: Can I invite a friend of a Real ID friend?
A: No, you can only invite your own Real ID friends the party.

Q. Are you considering expanding the system to work with raids, Battlegrounds, Arenas, or to allow cross-faction play?
A: We're always looking into ways to improve features like this to make it more convenient for real-life friends to play together. However, we don't have any further announcements to share at this time.

Q: Will any future aspects of the Real ID Party system be premium-based?
A: It's always possible that we'll add features and functionality that could have a premium component, but we don't have any specific details to share at this time.

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Unhappyendin
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Unhappyendin
9/6/2011
Why the hell is everyone saying cross faction....that kinda ruins the ideals of haveing 2 seperate factions doesnt it? "Yea were engaging Jindo now, Human pally healz, and Undead Dk tank...." that idea makes me want to quit wow
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Vix
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Vix
9/6/2011
@Unhappyendin: I am sure there is a huge contingent of players that would jump at the chance to play a World Of PEACECRAFT. No faction strife, just solid PVE world. I for one would move to that server within minutes of it being opened.
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Griaki
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Griaki
9/6/2011
@Vix While World of Peacecraft would be nice for a small number of people, there would have to be a massive radical change between the 2 Factions to even warrant a full peace.

Not only because of the Hatred bred between Varian and Garrosh, but don't forget the Night Elves refusal to share resources, the unnatural Worgen attacking undead at any turn, or the vile gnomes and dwarves plotting underground just like their Trogg cousins.

Besides, cross faction ruins the fun. I just say keep it server wide, same faction pvp/bgs/arenas, but leave cross faction away.
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Lâzarus
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Lâzarus
9/7/2011
@Griaki: untrue, it doesn't have to drastically change the world you live in and you can keep the PvP element as well. Dark Age of Camelot did it, it wasn't exactly peace more of a truce there were still battlegrounds for those who wanted them but the players themselves could group up with each other through other realms and enjoy the entire world not just designated "This land is my land, and that land is yours keep off mine okay?" Remember a truce is not exactly peace just a ceasefire. and the ideals of a person's kingdom does not influence the individual's own ideals and perspective. a Human does not have to believe in Stormwinds ideals that orcs are mindless rage machines, whilst an Orc can believe there's more to life than smashing human skulls. The individual can see the follies of a world divided when it's at the brink of destruction. /rant end
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Griaki
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Griaki
9/7/2011
@Kâkuzu: While I tend to agree that the ideals of a person's kingdom doesn't influence the individual's own ideals, we should also understand that for battlegrounds to truly stay the way they were, there would have to stay the way it is. A truce would remove the aggressive element (or try to maintain semblence of peace at the bare minimum).K

But let's sit back and look at how things are lorewise as well, There were 2 things in my opinion that has ruined any chance of peace (or ceasefire) at this point. First off, The Wrathgate. The event that pretty much almost fully tore the ties of peace many in both factions have tried to maintain, what's worse, this wasn't even the fault of either faction, it was an outside source.

The Next problem, the peace talks between the tauren and the night elves. This occured in (correct me if I'm wrong) The Shattering. As the night elves and tauren started their talks, the twilight hammer struck (mostly horde race members), killing off the night elves and (almost all) of the tauren. The Elves report that their own were slaughtered at such a time, and who else could possibly get such blame? That's right, the other faction.

Not only that but this was also due to the rising aggression throughout ashenvale.

So while the individual peasant may see the follies of a world divided so close to destruction, it would take a whole kingdom (on both sides) to see such destruction before it occurs, but we should also take in just how much information the people in the kingdoms get. Do peasants really need to know what is trying to kill everything this week immediately, or do you set out with the strongest and brightest to stop the threat before it even needs to be known?
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Fallzak
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Fallzak
9/5/2011
I agree with the below statements. PvP should be enabled.... it may get hairy if the realms aren't in the same battle group though wouldn't it? so maybe if the realms where in the same battle group???
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Beatthehippy
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Beatthehippy
9/5/2011
I understood the hate that I was going to receive when I found out I liked PvP more than PvE
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Julaudette
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Julaudette
9/5/2011
Also need to make it so we can cross faction friends Arena!
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Lathiandra
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Lathiandra
9/5/2011
need to make it so we can raid with our friends across servers
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Rheana
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Rheana
9/4/2011
how do you enable it?
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Kittyko
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Kittyko
9/3/2011
as the saying goes, a turd is a turd is a turd,.
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Warriorwu
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Warriorwu
9/2/2011
Because PVE gets nerfed by PVP in 4.2
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Hilltor
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Hilltor
9/2/2011
If it wasnt said a million times..

Real ID for BG's please, why are all the best/newest things for PVE?
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Lâzarus
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Lâzarus
9/7/2011
@Hilltor: because PvP is tiny little sliver of the world's lore. They want you to enjoy their whole world not just "Yo why you no que for TB noobs?!" all day long. PvP is cool and all, but it gets more boring than PvE imo faster than PvE but yeah PvE can get dull after the same !@#$ for awhile but at least PvE is always being expanded while sometimes PvP stays the same for a long time. Content wise that is.
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Kriandis
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Kriandis
9/2/2011
Real ID for rated bg's Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease!
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Hesh
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Hesh
9/2/2011
need to add pvp.
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Peigemaree
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Peigemaree
9/2/2011
A real-id party for pvp should be in effect that would be so badass!
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Nebliina
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Nebliina
9/1/2011
This is such an exciting development, because I have friends from several realms whom I would love to party with. I don't understand though why it had to be connected to Real ID. Since I refuse to use Real ID, I will have to forgo use of this appealing feature.
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Elìte
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Elìte
9/1/2011
TROLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
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Loret
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Loret
9/1/2011
Will this work cross realm and cross Us/EU?
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Fluppa
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Fluppa
9/1/2011
@Loret: not sure about the US/EU thing, but the whole point of this is for cross realm parties >.>
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Dhigdhug
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Dhigdhug
9/1/2011
Will this work for raids too? Man, there just won't be any reason to swap servers at all anymore.
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Tlaløc
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Tlaløc
8/31/2011
this would be sick if we could do cross faction and raids!
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Liraeyel
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Liraeyel
8/31/2011
This is great. I can do RDF with my husband now!
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Jacrobidk
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Jacrobidk
8/31/2011
All i can say is that it was a great idea
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Nynx
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Nynx
8/31/2011
Thank you for not making this a premium service. I haven't played in a while, and after a friend brought this to my attention and I couldn't help but re-sub. When this was first in the works, I felt so jipped that this would cost extra money on top of our subscription fee (especially since a lot of my friends play on different servers). Hope this eventually gets extended to BGs too, that'd be awesome. Thanks again.
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Huntoor
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Huntoor
8/31/2011
I think this is a fair compromise. You can group up with players from other servers in the RDF, and if the experience isn't appalling, you can make a judgement call on whether or not to approach a character transfer. Thanks blizz
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Cenin
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Cenin
8/30/2011
cause no one would pay for xfers i.e loss of money
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Odeseus
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Odeseus
8/30/2011
Just have them enter the battlegroup the party leader is in.
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Steakfries
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Steakfries
8/30/2011
Being able to dungeon with your friends on a different server is great, but blizz should make it to where you can pvp with them as well.
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Bossbullets
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Bossbullets
8/30/2011
That would be awesome if you could do BGs and raids and dungeons cross server. in my case i have been on a few different realms and made a few friends on all of them. yet the only thing you can do with friends cross server is dungeons which is boring as can be. and being able to play with people on a different faction would be great too since i have both horde and alliance toons.
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Powerofskull
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Powerofskull
8/30/2011
why cant they make it so we can BG or arena with realID friends for other realms
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Crazytag
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Crazytag
8/30/2011
I wish we could party up with RealID firends and do BGS too
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Shankerz
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Shankerz
8/30/2011
@Crazytag: Thats a good idea, i hope they add that in the future.
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Xenorock
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Xenorock
8/30/2011
Ai, recado ao pessoal brazuca, estou formando um grupo level 70 + para real id dungeon lvl up quem tiver afim de participar de varios rushs bem montados add meu msn ai willian.colosio@hotmail.com lembrando pedidos de adição no msn sem mensagem informando que esta pedindo add no msn devido a este post serão recusadas!!!!
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Charivia
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Charivia
8/30/2011
I have a question for everyone im wondering how you use friend to friend teleportstion?
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Legôlas
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Legôlas
8/30/2011
@Charivia: The only 2 methods i know of Friend to Friend Teleportation is the Recruit a Friend teleportation where you right click your Recruiter's name and it says "Summon Friend" on the Drop Box, and the guild Spell "Have Group Will Travel"
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Imgonahealya
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Imgonahealya
8/30/2011
@Legôlas: Yes and in the Recruit a Frind teleportation you can't have only the Real ID as a firend you have to have the character also. The icon to summon will appear beside the charachter's name and not beside the Real ID's
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Allanor
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Allanor
8/30/2011
Lawl wish this feature worked for bgs. But on the other hand that could get pretty hectic.... inviting a bunch of your elite gladiator friends into a bg and ###*ing the other side game after game. Im pretty sure thered be alot of complaints.
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Ganmine
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Ganmine
8/30/2011
ANYONE WANNA MAKE NEW CHARS ^.^
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