Connecting Communities with the WoW Ambassadors Program

Posted 15 hr 11 min ago by Archimtiros

WoW Ambassadors program

What is the WoW Ambassadors Program?

The WoW Ambassador Program is designed to empower dedicated and experienced players who want to help shape the World of Warcraft community, both in-game and beyond. Our vision is simple: foster engagement and connection among players, ensuring everyone feels at home, whether they are a veteran raider or just starting out in Azeroth.

Newcomer MentorCommunity CouncilCommunity Discord Programpromoted a handful of events

WoW Portal Room: Your Gateway to Community

Launching alongside the program, the WoW Portal Room is the official World of Warcraft Discord server—a hub where Ambassadors and players unite. Here, Ambassadors serve as guides, event organizers, and community champions, ensuring every adventurer feels included. Whether you’re seeking a new guild, tips for mythic dungeons, or simply want to chat, the Portal Room is where you will take the first steps to finding your people. Just like using a portal in World of Warcraft, the portal room is meant to be a way stop on your journey and not the final destination.

maintained a presence

For new players, it's a way to find third-party resources, like-minded players, and answers to questions as they get started on their journey through World of Warcraft.

For communities, it's another way to promote those resources, remind new players that there is a Warrior Discord, Wowhead Discord, a Mythic+ Group Finding Discord, and more. It's not exactly clear how big a community needs to be or whether this program will be appropriate for guild recruitment though.

For Blizzard, it could be an opportunity to better communicate and connect with players, issuing updates similar to the way they do on Twitter, Youtube, Twitch, and through blueposts.

sign-ups are available

Comment by DhisanThis will either end into nothingness just like the Community Council or into a complete @#$%show, no inbetween.Comment by 0VapyrThese programs just tend to attract narcsComment by Borga76Toooootally not going to be a drama powderkeg or anythingComment by KalamordisThis will either end into nothingness just like the Community Council or into a complete @#$%show, no inbetween.Comment by XernoThis will not end well.Comment by Varathragnamost of these "ambassadors" are weirdos anyway that get boosted hard or do hardcore rmt like wowmarkets LUKA and LOTR roguena etcComment by ZiyshotThis will either end into nothingness just like the Community Council or into a complete @#$%show, no inbetween.Comment by bannyvaderAnother feature shamelessly ripped from FF14Comment by BeerWolfThey cut off QA to pocket the money, passing the testing onto players.

They did the same for CMs, passing it onto players...

How shallow, how greedy.Comment by AlustrielLooks like another useless attempt to pacify those wanting to voice their opinions about issues. I agree that the prior attempts amounted to nothing worth mentioning.

One thing that many may agree on is that a lot of us who play online games do not like to be recognized or want to be part of some sort of social media platform, we have absolutely no public profile because this kind of information eventually leads to disasters with cyber criminals gaining insights into a person and leading to identity theft. I am sure that precautions would be put in place, but sadly users/members tend to post things that can lead to problems for themselves over time.Comment by ShmilbickBlizz can't create a real community, so they ask gamers to do it.Comment by Warhoonplease no Discord, no X, no Reddit, no TikTok, no Facebook,no Instagram...just let people play the game.Comment by Kiorelleplease no Discord, no X, no Reddit, no TikTok, no Facebook,no Instagram...just let people play the game.Comment by Khwoif ur a narcissist sign up for this! lmao so cringy, couldn't pay me to do this rofl.
I cant see anything good coming from this lolComment by TyneicIdk what the point is.

Maybe, just maybe if blizzard decided to invest time and money into these things, there'd be a shot, but with little to no involvement from them, it's just another attempt from blizzard at outsourcing their own work to players.

"Please play the PTR and beta, pretty please! There's no QA so we need your feedback"

"Please pretty please join our discord server and organise community events for us! There's no community managers so we need you to do these things for us!"Comment by kittycat63Translation: Work for Blizzard support for free!Comment by Redstorm83WoW ambassadors going to be the new discord kittens.Comment by serqetryMore extraction of free labor from the player base. Maybe next they can get players to contribute code and/or art for free as well. Shameless and embarrassing.Comment by GnomesRuleAnother feature shamelessly ripped from FF14Comment by BreetThis seems like a complete waste of time... ooo portal room with links to third party resources.
I would really love to know, How many people go to the forums and read this *!@#? It isn't on the blizzard launcher in an easy to find place, how do you expect "new players" to find it. No, they will use google and fine places like wowhead. and read it there.. Oh, join an "official" discord to have a link to wowhead?
Promote communities? I think every 'class' discord (that has dev's in there already) has links to other class discord, wowhead, ect.

Feels like an attempt to "HEY WE ARE DOING STUFF" rather then putting the resources into something more worth while, like a video on watching paint dry.