wow Blizzard Co-Leader Mike Ybarra Creates Group Finding Discord

[Starym 3,779]

 

It seems Mike "Qwik" Ybarra, Blizzard's co-leader, isn't done with his community interaction, and is now expanding it to, well, anyone! He has made a Discord server for to everyone interested in finding a group for any Blizzard game (and potentially some others as well), focusing on WoW and Mythic+ in particular:

Made a discord to find groups in mostly Blizzard games, especially WoW for m+ etc. This is not a "ask Mike questions about work" discord. ? If you play WoW or other Blizzard games and want to find people to play with: https://t.co/n9ndTibmUA intro yourself/guild/etc.

— Mike Ybarra (@Qwik) September 25, 2021

You could even end up playing with Blizzard's co-lead yourself, as he frequently asks for various roles for his own runs. He also will not be talking about any plans or what's going on behind the scenes for WoW specifically, but might talk about game development in general and will read suggestions for improvements:

I will not answer any WoW roadmap/future features, etc. questions here. Ion and team answer those ? ... Yeah I will answer game dev, personal etc questions but not work items relating to future things. Fine to suggest things.

He also mentioned that he's well aware of the potential for the server to get out of hand (both in terms of player numbers and comments that might appear), but he has the solution for that too:

I don't know discord well. Someday I will find someoen who does ? ... But if it does [get out of hand], deleting this is easy.

Just how successful this discord will be remains to be seen, as there are many similar LFG servers out there, but you can be sure this one will draw plenty of attention due to its high-profile creator (and there's already plenty of well-known WoW community faces on there as well). However it plays out, this is another really good sign that Ybarra actually is one of the WoW community and has good intentions for the game and the players, so let's see what happens!

[Calin 45]

Blizzard have been out of touch for a long time with their community, so this is a healthy development.
Naturally this is partly PR, but it's a good way for both parties so I'm ok with that.

[Calorat 78]

When your in-game group finder is so bad and filled with bots and ads you have to make one outside the game, how can this be seen as anything but a condemnation of the in-game group finder??

[Koxsos 38]

17 minutes ago, Calorat said:

condemnation of the in-game group finder??

Yeah. I mean it does not really work all that well. This is a real 'pro' move given they won't be responsible for what happens on discord.

I won't call it a big breakthrough as invite only communities had their discords almost as early as the m+ itself.

It's awfully convenient to set up your tags and ilvl bracket even a specific dungeon and be notified when a gig is open for whatever it is you can contribute.

As far as spam goes you'll be trading ads for discord scammers with an open server like this.

Edited September 26, 2021 by Koxsos

[Environment 28]

I can imagine this will be around for maybe a month, if that

[Prophet001 543]

I think this is a neat idea.

Ya'll behave.

[Dreamcatcher 65]

This guy Ybarra very much bright hope for future

[Raffinaddi 18]

This. Stuff like this. On ground and meet with players.

I approve.