Give me a legitimate reason to NOT have a LFD tool.

So you're of the school of thought that getting the group should be the hard part of running a flashpoint.

Because that's what you're saying to every low pop server and most high pop ones.

A global LFG channel would turn into a generic global channel and do very little. The current who/lfg tab does everything a LFG channel could do, and the only reason it doesn't work is that there aren't enough people using it.

this is true, they got raids and grps but it was harder on them before LFD because people had enough courtesy to post the name of a griefer in chat so people that teh people that wanted to could /ignore.

this made it a more pleasant experience for the people that took part in it and made an effort to have an up to date ignore list.

accountability.

strike first with /ignore and you wont have to put up with have the idiots when grouping until it becomes obsolete with LFD.

community

Mass flocking? Were? Do you think that everyone leaving a game leaves a "goodbye" post? If I add up different posters on this same thread what will I find?

Do you think the sharp decrease on western subs on WoW was not related to what I'm talking about? What about Rift? They are just "coincidences"?

Don't you realize reading this same thread that the confirmation or denial of a LFD will trigger cancelled subs in one portion of your playerbase?... What happens WHILE you are teasing ppl with an unconfirmed date for it?

This is not an option you can add and make every1 happy... It's simply impossible. You have to choose as Game Owner... It's the proyection of lost subs what will matter at the end.

No, pop drop, as I try to explain above is an unavoidable consequence...

...It's the removal of sharp variations on perceived difficulty from the content your automatically assembled party has to face.

Think on why some encounters are harder than others and then think how you can offer to the average party an average difficulty... Really think what you would do...

...And then look for the patch notes affecting that content... I hope you will spot what I mean.


You should read "sub advertising" with care... Specially with games that shift markets because the retention on the old ones has dropped... That's why you usually see "worldwide" attached to them and you never reach easily population profiles...

...Or do you think that the Pandas are chosen "arbitrarily" because they are cute?

want friends/community? go outside.

Its a video game.

In wow atm being able to friend and invite people on other servers is present.

Personally would love to see mmo's get closer and closer to removing the server boundary altogether.

A side of the lfg system I'll bet most of the counter-argument doesn't think of.

The world doesn't revolve around you, kiddo.

Go ahead. I have a feeling being the minority of a minority will be humbling.

What's so great about a mmo community? What's so great about it that we have to protect it from the evil xserver LFD? Seriously, if my irl community resembled a mmo community I would move to a different town today.