The Daily Grind: Do you take advantage of recruit-a-friend offers?

MMOs are all about having a massive amount of people in one world, so you might as well drag a few of your real life friends along for the ride, right? Or are you more of the person who likes to leave his friends behind, so you can have all of those pretty treasures and super powerful abilities for yourself?

Today's grind question wants to know if you enjoy taking advantage of those "bring your friends" offers and why you do it. Is it all about having a way to get your friends into your favorite game quickly and easily, with things like triple the experience for your buddy? Or is it more because you get that sweet mount and free game time? Whatever the reason is, let us know if why you've taken advantage of these programs, or perhaps why you may not be so keen on the whole idea down in the lovely white comment box below.

Reader Comments (10)

I have taken advantage of a few to try and get my brother interested in games, and send one or two out to friends.

I've never had a friend actually been persuaded by a trial though - or even get so far as downloading a client & patching it up to my knwoledge ; MMOs are very much a love-or-hate genre in my experience, and even people who do love them are usually committed to the games they're already playing.

My friends either know their MMOs or really don't need ya timesink.

Actually, a good friend of mine got me hooked on WAR because of the Recruit-a-Friend program they just came out with.

I had been floating in MMO-burnout space for a while, after years of CoX, and I really disliked the fantasy genre. I played WoW for a month a few years back and absolutely hated it. But WAR has been great, mostly due to the Open RvR game and a great community (at least on the Order side).

So yes, in this case, I used the Recruit-a-Friend program the other way around for once. I have been the sender in the past, this time I was the receiver.

I've sent them, but none have ever turned out to grab the people. If one of my friends is into MMOs, we're usually talking about buying and playing together.

Most of my recruit-a-friend are conversations where the person seems genuially interested in the genre, and I send a trial. So far... no bites :(

I wish I could. My friends are either already playing or not interested. There's not much in-between. My brother stopped playing WoW for a while due to time constraints, but he hasn't been unsubscribed long enough to nab any rewards for reinviting him.

Yes I did. I recruited my brother and his wife. I leveled a total of 7 characters to 60 between the 3 accounts.

2 Mage, 1 Shaman, 1 Priest, 1 Warlock, 1 Hunter, and I level granted a Paladin. Was hard to pick between the paladin and rogue.

Took about a week of work per set of characters. Did it 2x total. First set I leveled up my brothers Warlock and my Mage. Second set, I got his wife in the game; I leveled her Mage, his Hunter, My Priest. Somewhere during all of this I also level granted my Shaman from 50-something to 60. After the second set of characters I also level granted a Paladin from 1-60.

4 Characters on my account, 2 on my brother's, 1 on his wife's.

I would if i had friends

I couldn't. Wow Europe Recruit a friend program was not availble where I live.

likewise for me.

I would love to take advantage of it, especially because of the mount, but also the triple xp.

However, some EU countries, including the one I live in, have rules against such "encouragement to send unsolicited advertising".

Therefore, I find myself in the position of being handicapped compared to other people on my server, when it comes to the mount achievements.

I did, actually. I recruitred my girlfriend, and she loves her druid.

Leveling is a lot easier with recruit-a-friend. I leveled a paladin with her until level 30, then I leveled a shaman to 15 and she level granted him to 30 too.

So far, it has been working like a charm. We've started questing in stranglethorn vale this evening, and I got 4 levels out of it! (including one granted)

The Recruit-a-friend program is definitely worth it.

The Daily Grind: Do you take advantage of recruit-a-friend offers?

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