Someone explain the LFG tool hate?

Why is that amusing? I want to meet players sure, but whats the point if your never going to see them again?

Not sure why, really. My theory is that this so called community that is ruined maybe existed in early day wow. It had members of some of servers hardcore or wannabe hc guilds and few well geared friends. They could do those fast instances without any risk of getting a newb with them. They shared their blacklists of persons not to group with. They were the elite, atleast they could keep the illusion since anyone willing to join their community had to work for it. They had easy and fast instances since they had a pool of well geared and skilled people at hand so they didnt need any LFG tools. The noobs and other casuals could do the daily kill 10 rats or what ever the casuals do for all they cared.

Now, even non guilded can have decent gear, can join instances fast, can even do some raids. The old (and good) community is ruined. It becomes harder and harder to keep up the elitism.

Anyway I dont like much the spam a global LFG channel will be filled, but it is much more flexible way to look for group than most of the LFG tools I have seen. I havent seen what wow has atm. I think the benefits of the LFG tool (cross server or not) are greater than some annoyance of possible spam or ninjas. Those can be prevented too with a careful thinking of loot system and ignore system.

Some people think it's social to spam LFG on the chat and never get a group of people to actually spend time with lol

This is the real problem of course, the servers are splintered into instanced zones in the first place so finding players to group with on your own server is a tricky task at the best of times.

I like the earlier idea of an option to queue for your own server or cross server, although i'll bet most will queue cross server because a lot of players want insta-pop instances. Still it'd be interresting to see what the reality of this would be.

If your community is worth it's salt, it will be unaffected by a cross server lfg.

Server transfers are not a solution to the problem of too many servers, or low pop servers.
Those of you who babble about how important community is are hypocrites if you suggest "switch servers, and it'll be fine" or "just reroll, man!"

What if we like the 14 other people on our server but we'd just like to fill out a group when some of them can't be online?

There was a time.. when LFG tool came in on wow.. that i missed the days of actually LFG..

and i understand the comment about the guy who says meeting new players..

as.. when you LFM.. and find some good dps or healz/tanks.. you add them.. you end up running fp's together more..

that will all go out the window with a LFG tool.. at this stage.. id be in favor of leaving it out..

However.. i am on a populated server.. perhaps make it available for players who stay on light servers.

I personally think the amount of hate revolving the "LFG Tool" issue is that BW has already stated that they're working on one, and that it will be implemented soon.

Yet there's a very vocal group of players who Won't Shut Up about wanting an LFG Tool.

We get it, you want one, they said they're implementing one. There's no longer a reason to clog up General chat with a 4-hour long discussion on the History of MMOs and which ones had LFG tools or Dungeon finders or whatever, or how they will destroy/enhance the community.

Exactly. There is nothing stopping people building up a community after a Cross-Server LFG comes in, they just don't.
That's the players fault, nobody else.

I am all for LFG for FPs. As long as they dont do them for raids. I think that was the dumbest thing Blizz did.

There isn't a technical reason as much as people just hate whatever they know someone else wants.