Dungeon Finder Needed Badly

Funny enough, I've read that once or twice. Not sure what your pointing out here other than: Improving our LFG system is high on the list of features that Systems Design wants to add to the game. We want this to be good not just for helping people find Flashpoints and Operations to run, but also other multiplayer content like heroic missions. A key emphasis will be on advertising for specific role needs (healer, tank, DPS). This feature is currently in the design stage, and once this feature has moved beyond this to a development stage and has a firm ETA, I'll be coming back to you guys to give more details.

Cross realm LFDs were a bad idea 500 pages ago and they are a bad idea now. The people that need instant gratification without ever having to be friendly or even civil to other players probably aren't the best target audience if you want to differentiate yourself from that other huge MMO.


At the very least though LFD proponents, I have bumped your thread. I still hope you don't get your way.

cheers.

Cons:

1. Some people think it ruins the community...but I think they are wrong. They obviously have not sat for an hour trying to fill a Flashpoint group.

These don't seem like constructive criticisms.. perhaps you meant them in a none trolling way.

Cross realm LFDs were a bad idea 500 pages ago and they are a bad idea now. The people that need instant gratification without ever having to be friendly or even civil to other players probably aren't the best target audience if you want to differentiate yourself from that other huge MMO.

In the end the lack of personal attachments made it surprisingly easy for me to walk away from 4 years of character progression in Azeroth. I haven't regretted it once. I for one would like this game to be a social game and not just a gear treadmill with disposable groups.

http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/01/30/4-...er-harassment/

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That is what the game turns into with LFD/LFR. I never saw the complete disregard for other players prior to the implementation of the tool you are yearning for.

I understand why a lot of you want it, but I personally say "No thank you".

I like cooperative gameplay. What happens in LFD/LFR is anything but.

At the very least though LFD proponents, I have bumped your thread. I still hope you don't get your way.

cheers.

And the bullies that were discussed in that article magically go away when your "community" ousts them? Fairy tale. Never happened pre-LFD in WoW and if they implement a LFR type system in SWTOR, I will be happy to be able to play that type of content, and just deal with the unwashed masses that come with it.

Either way, we're never going to agree, but still good to hear any argument your side can muster.

And thank you for bringing this article to my attention. I'll remember to repost it once SWTOR has a similar system.

Once more i see people spouting off personal experiences and opinions with ZERO bases in facts.
I can counter every cross server lfd sucks and most runs are bad with cross server lfd with my own personal experiences and opinions that cross server lfd in multi games i am playing are great and the majority of runs ore great!
So its a draw on personal experiences its my word against your word.

So we once more fall back to facts i have stated before.
Fact: devs in multi mmo's have stated their cross server lfd are a success! stating that more players than ever before are running and completing the content.

Fact: even older games are adding cross server lfd tools.

Fact cross server lfd tools are now considered a common mmo tool ( more games have them than dont).

Fact: there is no proof that server communities are destroyed with cross server lfd tools. There is only personal opinions.

Fact: millions of players in multi mmo's use cross server lfd tools ona daily basis and never complain.

Fact: there is ZERO ninja looting with a good need/greed system in cross server lfd(some thing we do not have here yet).

Fact: with cross server lfd, cross server friends list and cross server invite and cross server whispers your friends list has more people available to add to.

Fact: good people exist out side of just your own server.

Fact: Fact: /ignore is all you need for taking care of a bad player. Any thing else is your desire to control the player outside of their effect on you.

Fact: Anti cross server people have zero facts to back their claims!

For me what really ruins the community is not getting to know people on your server. And an LFG tool encourages that. Once people know that there's virtually no chance of ever running into the same people again on a cross-server LFG tool, they feel free to be rude as hale. But on your own server you have to maintain your rep to get pugs.

I would like to see a server-by-server LFG tool, no need to go cross-server. I see plenty of people spam for groups on Assassins of Sion even if they don't get them, and my server's not even heavily populated, so it would work.