No Cross Realm LFG tool please!

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If you spoke to me like that in game on the same server, it would be the last time you played with me. I would also tell the guys I play with to look out for you and they would. That has already been the occasional case for me an several people I play this game with.

You call me a fool but this isn't WoW's population that includes a neverending influx of fifteen year olds. Theres maybe 200-300 players on the server I play and that number hasen't moved. So yeah, keep pretending that you can be a troll and it will never catch up with you in this game as it stands now.

Here are my two cents:

Having a LFG tool in WoW was nice at first until I realized that putting a group together in chat channels created the requirement of having basic social skills to make an instance group. With LFG, while it is easier to form groups, the requirement of those basic social skills is gone.

So, in TOR, not having an LFG tool creates the positive side effect of having less *****hats in your group. I think that's positive and worth the effort of putting a group together.

I really don't see how this feature would ruin the community. The idea is that if someone behaves poorly in a group run that you can warn others, and eventually cause them to either change their ways or be unable to group. This system simply does not work. Sure, if someone is a jerk when they group with me I might not ever play with them again, but odds are other people are going to group with that person no matter what I say (and I don't see why other people should automatically take my side to begin with).

I like the idea of a LFG tool for 2 main reasons.
1. Forming groups as they are now, time required is a wildly inconsistent variable. If I only have 2 hours to play, it's hard to say if that's enough time to run a FP, particularly at mid-levels where there are fewer players looking for the same FP's. A LFG tool would allow me (hopefully) to see approximately how long is needed to form a group. Perhaps even more importantly, if I have to leave the queue due to time, it's much less of a hardship on the people I'm in the queue with than if I were to have a group of 2 others and have to bail on them before we got a 4th.

2. I like the cooperation of playing with other people, and the idea of taking down opponents I wouldn't be able to otherwise. That said, I'm not looking to make friends in this (or any other) game. I'm not the kind of person who will log into a game just to socialize. Being able to get a group of random people together to accomplish 1 clear objective, then disbanding and likely never seeing those people again works great for me.

tl;dr
A LFG tool would be great for people with limited time or who just don't want to get extracurricular with the social aspect. I would prefer a system that tries to match players with others from their server first, but I think a LFG tool is much needed.

I really don't see what's so bad about giving players a choice. If you don't want to use cross-server lfg then don't use it. This really isn't a hard concept. No one's asking for a system like wow where you get a goody bag or tokens for using the lfg system. We just want to be able to run content without having to wait 1 hour+ just to get started. The most difficult part of group content should not be finding a group, it should be the content.

The Group Finder feature we've discussed for the near future is definitely single-server only.

Well done Bioware! You've officially killed any of the low population servers with this decision. And because you can't be arsed to address the underlying issue of population on some servers and give us a proper answer.

/Golfclap on behalf of All players from Uthar Wynn - The handful that remain positive despite your best efforts to **** us.

Edit: Maybe you'll actually read this? **** would that be the day.

You can do that, with or without cross server lfg.