No Cross Realm LFG tool please!

Darth,

You have been consistent throughout and I can fully appreciate that. I too enjoy running content with people that I am familiar with and have met in game, it seems to make the experience that much more enjoyable. Unfortunately, right now, the content is sitting idle for me because of the limited tools and leveling bubble that has dissipated on most servers.

At the end of the day, for me, because its a game, if I need to choose between content and friends I guess I would rather be able to enjoy the content in the game vs. worrying about with whom I do the content with. Sadly, it is one or the other in SW right now.

Also at the end of the day, its not our ultimate decision as to what is and what is not included in SW's toolbox for players to use. And if BW decides that they don't ever want a cross server tool for fp's, then it won't have one. But, again, unfortunately, I won't be able to stay subbed either as this severely limits my ability to enjoy the game.

I agree this single server mind set needs to be shattered and done away with. Its high time we changed it to a game wide community!
Or at the very least a cluster of servers.
Mythic did this many years ago with daoc when their servers were in trouble. Instead of merging them they clustered them together and have some zones that were constantly merged and others where you could pick which server on the cluster you wanted to play in.

We already sort of have some of the mechanics in place with the phasing in swtor.

Maybe. But GW2 will have some pretty neat features that eliminate the incentive for anti-social behavior while adventuring out in the world... incentives this particular game has in spades.

I estimate 1 month post launch a massive amount of threads will appear DEMANDING an LFG tool.

And as every modern MMO has learned, people are *****s and anti-social.

GW2 is going to have the same influx of players as SWTOR did, then the QQ will commence in full.

No LFG! This game isn't playable.

It is what it is.

I estimate 1 month post launch a massive amount of threads will appear DEMANDING an LFG tool.

And as every modern MMO has learned, people are *****s and anti-social.

GW2 is going to have the same influx of players as SWTOR did, then the QQ will commence in full.

No LFG! This game isn't playable.

It is what it is.

When a LFG tool is in place it allows people become lazy and haphazard. Instead of crying that there is no LFG auto que, you should create or join a guild that works together with people. Instead people want to plow through the game solo not making friends or being committed to anything except themselves. So it becomes a glorified console game.

I am not against them having it but I think they should not give players any special rewards for using it. Infact I think they should ban getting social points when you use it since you really are not being social. Also I think you should have the option to que "Same server" or "Cross server".

I won't be using it. If players that do are rewarded I will cancel my subscription. Please concider all players in your decisions Bioware. Community is my entire reason for playing an MMO. Seek ways to reward those that are committed to their guild and friends verses themsleves.

And I appreciate your civilized responses even when we disagree from time to time. IMO we can have both. The infrastructure is being put in place to allow this. To have X server LFG would require pretty much the same infrastructure and communications between servers as a single virtual server. I'm on Vos, then all Vos planets on ALL servers or at least a group of servers share the same chat channels. That's the same things as when you go into a flashpoint with cross server general is shared with everyone.

Currently when there's a lot of people in one zone the zone is sharded and players can hop to another shard. The same way a player would hop to a flashpoint (I believe hosted on ANOTHER server) in a X server environment they can have players hop to another server within the group to play with the people there.

The biggest hurdle would be cross server GTN & Guild Banks because you just GOTTA have guild members cross server. It just makes sense.

So IMO instead of working on putting in cross server LFG work on what I mentioned and when you LFG you pool from that group of servers also.

Win/Win.

I am not sure how LFD and Anti-Social are connected

I am in a 10 main WoW raid guild, we formed after the LFD was created. We are all friends to this day. We talk, drink beer, and hang out in vent. I have met a couple of them in real life. We hung out and had a good time.

Does that sound social? Maybe you just don't know how to make friends?