So, after quitting over a year ago after playing since wotlk, I decided to give the game a new chance (because nobody ever quits WoW forever I guess) and as I make a new account (for reasons), I noticed that friends (people who have their old account still and played regulary since I quit) have a flag above their head and see a murloc above my head.
So my question: Why does Blizzard publically mark new accounts?
Cool, that you want people to help new players and all, but we all know what is going to happen in WoW:
New Account? Pfffff, get the frick out of my group, newbie.
So, please disable that stuff. This is literally public shaming. Marking a group of the player base because they arenāt the same.
-200 IQ Mode.
Also: The Flag on Veteran players can stay, thats cool and doesnt bring any negative effect, but the flag on newbies needs to be disabled asap.
In Gw2, where you stole the Mentor-Idea from anyway, newbies/new accounts arent flagged, only people can tag up as Mentor and provide help to new guys freely out of choice, but because you decide it HAS to be flagged.
Sorry for the rant and with this rant I guess Iām officially back (for now)
People who act like that are not worth your time.
What mark are you talking about though? I have never noticed it.
If anything though I would be more inclined to spend more time teaching useful things to a new player
Doesnt change anything from the fact that Iām flagged as newbie without wanting it to. I know most of the game, the lore, old raids, old quests etc. I simply donāt know about Shadowlands stuff, so why that flag?
I never saw it in GW2 but it is in FF14ā¦ you get a seedling icon when you are new - thing is though people are really patient and understanding there and help you out when you are new to a role or the contentā¦ but in WoW I donāt think itās that great an idea - itās a totally different community (or lack of)
I honestly agree with you.
Thereās a reason because that system works so well for FFXIV and thatās because the community is heavily focused on RP and social interaction.
WoWās community is way too toxic and āelitistā.
Itās the same in ESO on ps4. There arenāt addons on console to test dps, but if you go to a training dummy at a house anyone there can see your dpsā¦ so if you want to raid in a guild you have to prove your dps to them.
There is a clear divide there between casuals and elitistsā¦ and sadly there are far too many elitists.
Besides their chat indicators in the Newcomer chat, Guides and Newcomers can identify each other in the world - Guides will have green flags above their head, while Newcomers will have murlocs. Only guides can see murloc icons, and only newcomers can see the green flags.
If someone announces to the group you are a newcomer I would report them so they lose that status.
its been a new feature that has just been implemented i highly doubt they will remove it.
Guide and Newcomer World Icon Indicators
Besides their chat indicators in the Newcomer chat, Guides and Newcomers can identify each other in the world - Guides will have green flags above their head, while Newcomers will have murlocs. Only guides can see murloc icons, and only newcomers can see the green flags.
The only people that see that murloc are people that volunteered to be āguidesā for new players.
I really doubt they would do any form of public shaming.
PS: I agree that new players should be able to remove it if they want.
But at that point your point rather looks like complaining about a problem that never happened.
i might want to add that you are only in the mentor programme until level 20 then you dont have access to it anymore, hence the murloc gets removed. takes literally no time to level to 20+.
OPās post just makes me sad. People in FFXIV will usually cut you a lot of slack if you have a sprout or returner icon. Everyone was a new player at some point. We should all remember that.
