Facebook and game achievement integration

[Keikoku]

<p>Just an idea, maybe we can have it set up so that whenever we get an achievement, gain a level, get an aa, etc, we can post into our Facebook page, or via Twitter?  Just a thought.</p>

[Zorastiz]

<p>What would the point of that be?</p>

[GrunEQ]

<p><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; color: #cc99ff; font-size: small;">OMG....NO!   </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; color: #cc99ff; font-size: small;">I'd have to unfriend EQ2 if that happened.  I get enough from my friends doing those games as it is.</span></p>

[hempick]

<p>The last thing I want is for all of my friends to know how much I play EQ2.</p>

[Kithica]

What's with this strange need to notify everyone in the world of the most trivial things in one's life? I hope twitter and facebook go the way of the dinosaur and parachute pants.

[WarreSammontakoja]

<p><cite>Preya@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Just an idea, maybe we can have it set up so that whenever we get an achievement, gain a level, get an aa, etc, we can post into our Facebook page, or via Twitter?  Just a thought.</p></blockquote><p>And this would prolly need you to enter station-account information on those services...which i personally would be a risky move =)</p>

[Levatino]

<p>maybe a crazy idea but you can post a link to your character profile in the your contacts section of facebook can't you?</p>

[Aldhissla]

<p>NONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONO!</p>

[Andok]

<p><cite>Kithica@Lucan DLere wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>What's with this strange need to notify everyone in the world of the most trivial things in one's life? I hope twitter and facebook go the way of the dinosaur and parachute pants.</blockquote><p>I am drinking my coffee and reading your post.</p>

[QuestingCrafter]

<p><cite>Andok wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Kithica@Lucan DLere wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>What's with this strange need to notify everyone in the world of the most trivial things in one's life? I hope twitter and facebook go the way of the dinosaur and parachute pants.</blockquote><p>I am drinking my coffee and reading your post.</p></blockquote><p>/em likes your status.</p>

[BChizzle]

<p><cite>Hiiri@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Preya@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Just an idea, maybe we can have it set up so that whenever we get an achievement, gain a level, get an aa, etc, we can post into our Facebook page, or via Twitter?  Just a thought.</p></blockquote><p>And this would prolly need you to enter station-account information on those services...which i personally would be a risky move =)</p></blockquote><p>You could probably do it with just character ID and wouldn't need to add in your station information.  SOE should write a facebook app for their games as its pretty much low cost advertising they are really missing the boat here as usual, I personally wouldn't use it but lots of people would.</p>

[Fyranaer]

<p><cite>Kithica@Lucan DLere wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>What's with this strange need to notify everyone in the world of the most trivial things in one's life? I hope twitter and facebook go the way of the dinosaur and parachute pants.</blockquote><p>What's the point of your post?  Most all of our discussions here are trivial pedantic drivel.  Why do we have in game announcements for achievements?  Why do we have public profiles available for our characters?  We like to do these things because we're social and like to chat.</p><p>A Facebook app might be interesting, but I would only use it if I could choose which accomplishments or achievements to publish.</p><p>I know it's fun to posture and berate people for social networking, but it is here to stay and newer titles will incorporate more social networking options.  I would expect to see some social network integration in Guild Wars 2, Star War Old Repub, and other major titles.  I don't think the OPs request is that bazaar really.  It's good advertising and can show people the game is still relevant to many people.</p>

[Korizan]

<p>Not unless SOE has released a API for EQ2.</p><p>have they ?</p><p>Then again I am not sure I want to know...</p>

[Jrral]

<p><cite>Preya@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Just an idea, maybe we can have it set up so that whenever we get an achievement, gain a level, get an aa, etc, we can post into our Facebook page, or via Twitter?  Just a thought.</p></blockquote><p>Please, no. My feed's already hard enough to read as it is with updates from all the FB games people play. Frankly, if I'm interested in that information I <em>already know it</em> without it having to be posted to FB, and if the only way I'll find out about it is FB/Twitter/whatever then odds on I don't care about it.</p>

[Keikoku]

<p>Jebus, folks.  I love how someone can post an idea, and people wanna pick up their keyboard courage and bash said idea.  There's a wide array of reasons for doing it, just as there are for not doing it.  I just see other games taking advantage of these technologies, and would like to see my favorite game not get left in the dust.</p>

[erin]

<p><cite>Preya@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Jebus, folks.  I love how someone can post an idea, and people wanna pick up their keyboard courage and bash said idea.  There's a wide array of reasons for doing it, just as there are for not doing it.  I just see other games taking advantage of these technologies, and would like to see my favorite game not get left in the dust.</p></blockquote><p>If you post an idea to a public forum such as this, you have to expect both positive and negative feedback.  Its not keyboard courage to say "I don't like your idea", sometimes its simply "I don't like your idea".  People have given perfectly valid reasons why they dislike the idea, its not just "ewww".</p>

[Sydares]

<p>On the list of "things they need to do" for EQ2, this is at the bottom of that list.</p>

[Upir]

<p>Yet, I'd expect to see them integrate this long before they address some of the bigger, more imposing issues. </p>

[Banbha]

<p>I did see a status a few times on someone's twitter that said they were playing EQ2. It was using this site <a href="http://raptr.com/">http://raptr.com/</a> Not sure how it works. Not intending on using it myself, but I thought I would put it out there.</p>

[Wingrider01]

<p><cite>Preya@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Jebus, folks.  I love how someone can post an idea, and people wanna pick up their keyboard courage and bash said idea.  There's a wide array of reasons for doing it, just as there are for not doing it.  I just see other games taking advantage of these technologies, and would like to see my favorite game not get left in the dust.</p></blockquote><p>if you post an idea on the interet expect it to be bashed by those that do not agree - personally can live without a facebook or any social site interface to the game, my firewall is set to blacklist every one of the sites that fit into that category.</p>

[Keikoku]

<p><cite>erin wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Preya@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Jebus, folks.  I love how someone can post an idea, and people wanna pick up their keyboard courage and bash said idea.  There's a wide array of reasons for doing it, just as there are for not doing it.  I just see other games taking advantage of these technologies, and would like to see my favorite game not get left in the dust.</p></blockquote><p>If you post an idea to a public forum such as this, you have to expect both positive and negative feedback.  Its not keyboard courage to say "I don't like your idea", sometimes its simply "I don't like your idea".  People have given perfectly valid reasons why they dislike the idea, its not just "ewww".</p></blockquote><p>Right, I understand.  But there's a difference between trolling and and genuinely disliking the idea.  And there's a difference between being condescending with their arguments against and being nice about it.  But, as it was pointed out, public forums give way to that kind of thing.  Just sad to see that no one can put forth an idea without people bashing the person who posted it.</p>

[woolf2k]

<p>good idea. </p><p>I doubt it take much. </p><p>integration to FB and Twitter is simple. </p><p>and this is becoming common. </p><p>it would also be good free PR for the game. </p><p>BTW: you're a loser if you use Facebook. Twitter FTW <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Blambil]

<p>you'd want to include a filter like you do for guild events... level up, AA, etc..</p>

[Serian]

<p><cite>Kithica@Lucan DLere wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>What's with this strange need to notify everyone in the world of the most trivial things in one's life? I hope twitter and facebook go the way of the dinosaur and parachute pants.</blockquote><p>OMG NO!!!!!!!!!!!  Parachute pants are the way of the dinosaur?  My heart is broken and my life is ruined! /wail!!</p><p>LOL anyways Yah I unfriend the people who do nothing but play games, and never actually post anything or import about their lives.  If they play games and actually post info about whats gone on IRL I dont mind now since I can actually hide all the game spam now.   I do NOT want EQ or EQ2 spamming me with bull about what my toon or my friends toons have done. </p><p>I vote NO!</p><p>Seri~</p>

[NightGod473]

<p>As long as they made it an app (which would then mean it would just take a click from someone to block the information  if they weren't interested in seeing them, like all the other games out there), I think it would be a great idea. I know WoW has something similar with their achievement system, it's on a bit of a delay, but I get the occasional notice from friend's feeds about their lastest [Removed for Content] improvement.</p><p>I really don't get people who complain about other people's feeds "spamming" them with notices about the games they play-just block the app and move on with your life.</p>

[Hellswrath]

<p>Quite frankly, SOE is way behind the power curve in terms of community support such as this.  The state of EQ2Players is one excellent example.</p><p>Between Steam achievements, Games for Windows Live achievements, and the achievement system Blizzard is using, gamers are already expecting this functionality and it is extremely popular.  Raptr is one example of a client that tracks achievements across all games, but it certainly isn't the only one and there are plenty of websites following suit.</p><p>This is basic functionality for community driven games like this these days.  And what is the point to <em>earning</em> and of the in game achievements if they can't be shown off easily?</p><p>Show me one place where we can easily see achievement scores without an in-game examine of a nearby toon (assuming they are even showing said data).  We can't.  This system is being completely wasted as it stands now.</p>

[Pervis]

<p><cite>Hellswrath@Blackburrow wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>This is basic functionality for community driven games like this these days.  And what is the point to <em>earning</em> and of the in game achievements if they can't be shown off easily?</blockquote><p>People use achievements from games to show off?</p><p>Did you forget to /sarcasm at the end of your post?</p>

[Wingrider01]

<p><cite>Pervis wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Hellswrath@Blackburrow wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>This is basic functionality for community driven games like this these days.  And what is the point to <em>earning</em> and of the in game achievements if they can't be shown off easily?</blockquote><p>People use achievements from games to show off?</p><p>Did you forget to /sarcasm at the end of your post?</p></blockquote><p>there are achievements?</p>

[Hellswrath]

<p><cite>Pervis wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Hellswrath@Blackburrow wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>This is basic functionality for community driven games like this these days.  And what is the point to <em>earning</em> and of the in game achievements if they can't be shown off easily?</blockquote><p>People use achievements from games to show off?</p><p>Did you forget to /sarcasm at the end of your post?</p></blockquote><p>I'll assume you forgot the /sarcasm at the end of yours, as well.<img src="/eq2/images/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" /></p>

[Pervis]

<p><cite>Hellswrath@Blackburrow wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>I'll assume you forgot the /sarcasm at the end of yours, as well.<img src="/eq2/images/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" /></blockquote><p>No, I didn't.</p><p>The idea that anyone would ever think that achievements gained in this game are any sort of means of showing off while in this game, let alone out of it, is unusual to me. Everyone I know totally ignores achievements. If one of my friends on Facebook had anything at all to do with them on his page, he would be laughed at by a good many people.</p><p>Now, I know different people like different things, and place a higher value on some things than another would, but seriously...</p>

[Fyranaer]

<p><cite>Pervis wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Hellswrath@Blackburrow wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>I'll assume you forgot the /sarcasm at the end of yours, as well.<img src="/eq2/images/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" /></blockquote><p>No, I didn't.</p><p>The idea that anyone would ever think that achievements gained in this game are any sort of means of showing off while in this game, let alone out of it, is unusual to me. Everyone I know totally ignores achievements. If one of my friends on Facebook had anything at all to do with them on his page, he would be laughed at by a good many people.</p><p>Now, I know different people like different things, and place a higher value on some things than another would, but seriously...</p></blockquote><p>Well if you and your friends don't like it then everyone else who does must be ridiculous.  Everyone is different and every group of friends and family is different.  People like sharing different things on FB and not just what you like and think is cool.  Does that make sense to you?</p>

[Tylia]

<p><cite>Sydares wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>On the list of "things they need to do" for EQ2, this is at the bottom of that list.</p></blockquote><p>QFE</p>

[woolf2k]

<p><cite>Pervis wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Hellswrath@Blackburrow wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>I'll assume you forgot the /sarcasm at the end of yours, as well.<img src="/eq2/images/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" /></blockquote><p>No, I didn't.</p><p>The idea that anyone would ever think that achievements gained in this game are any sort of means of showing off while in this game, let alone out of it, is unusual to me. Everyone I know totally ignores achievements. If one of my friends on Facebook had anything at all to do with them on his page, he would be laughed at by a good many people.</p><p>Now, I know different people like different things, and place a higher value on some things than another would, but seriously...</p></blockquote><p>This is hilarious coming from a Facebook user. As a FB user you and/or your so called friends must play those click-fest games/apps which HEMORRHAGE idiotic and meaningless achievements every second. </p><p>It was so ridiculous that as an ex-facebook user I had to HIDE them, yet everyday I had to spend time Hiding one game or app thing that hemorrhaged achievements. </p><p>At least any achievement made by this game would have some meaning and be a true achievement for something in the game that may mean something to some people.</p>

[Pervis]

<p><cite>Jaine@Nagafen wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>This is hilarious coming from a Facebook user. As a FB user you and/or your so called friends must play those click-fest games/apps which HEMORRHAGE idiotic and meaningless achievements every second. </blockquote><p>Why must I?</p><p>I use Facebook to keep in touch with friends that have moved long distances. None of my friends (in Facebook or otherwise) play any of those games, and quite honestly, I dispise their very premise (start playing a game, get your friends involved, build up a friendly competition, pay money to get ahead in said competition, since your friends are playing it you won't be leaving any time soon).</p><p>If someone decided to start playing Farmville (or [Removed for Content] any of the others are called), and had their progress posted, they would get laughed at just as much as anyone posting achievements.</p>