LFG Tool is NOT Needed

A majority of players don't need to need to look at it. They just need to check the little box, set the comment and go on their way. If you're of the minority of players who are willing to take a leadership role (however minor) and form a group, then checking list every now and then might be for you.

I'd be interested to see what type of person would mock someone for making them aware of a useful in-game function. Vague interest is better than ignorance, and Silence is a common answer to most things said in General Chat.

The tool is bad. It's not obviously visible. But it's not hidden either. We're not navigating through the bowel's of EVE's UI here. The tool shares a window with /who.

Type /who and you're at the LFG tool. Easy as that.

Hopefully BW polishes it further. But right now, how about instead of saying "BW needs to add a LFG tool" we say "BW needs to improve the LFG tool". In the meantime let's fix the problems we can fix ourselves and educate the playerbase via word of mouth instead of waiting around with our thumbs up our ***.

Laughably not that big of a deal. A queue system, while extremely convenient, won't make or break party forming.

Wrong. I use the LFG tool BW provides and it does nothing. Every attempt that I've made over the last week to form a group for a flashpoint has failed. I've completely given up on them. At this point, LFG tool would be the only way I can do them.

Same server LFD tool would be pointless.

Rift's LFD tool was originally same server only but then was quickly made cross server.

If you are on a lightly populated server then a same server LFD tool would be worthless.

If you are on at an odd time like 3am then a same server LFD tool would be worthless.

A LFD tool is only as useful as the pool of players it has to draw from. If you drastically limit the pool then you also drastically limit its usefulness. So, what would be the point of BioWare spending the time and resources in adding a LFD tool only to have it be worthless for half the day?

A same server LFD tool would only serve to draw contempt from both sides and please none.

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No, they were like that long before the lfd tool was added; in nearly 1000 groups (split between several characters) though the lfd tool, I'd say the percentages is less than 2%

[QUOTE=ferroz;1520606]Yup, I had 3 maxxed, and two mid range, and actively used the LFD tool. I can count on one hand the asses I had to deal with in all those runs. As opposed to here in this game, where I have one character to low/mid 30s and have already had 5 or 6 rotten experiences because of ******s in runs.

Absolute nonsense!

I've had far more good groups than bad when using WoW's LFD tool.
Before it came, I had completely given up on doing instances on alts. After it was introduced, all my alts have done all instances, which has been great.

If you find it more fun to stand an hour on the space station spamming for group that never happens, we'll don't use the tool then. Simple as that.
Some of us actually enjoy questing and exploring, i.e. actually playing the game, while waiting for a group instead of just standing at the same spot looking at the screen, just hoping someone will answer your LFG spam.

Well:

1. They don't; lots of people are pro lfd and pro-single server; I'd say around half of them. So saying that the lfd crowd in general is attacking the idea of single server is just not true.
2. Some of the ones that aren't arguing for single server (I'd say the biggest group of these): they see the fact that single server lfd doesn't work in a lot of situations, primarily: low-mid levels, low population server, off peak times or combinations of these. They attack the idea of a single server lfd because they see it as killing the usefulness of the tool for the majority.
3. There is group that is pro-lfd and anti-server boundaries. These people see the idea of individual servers locked off from each other as an antiquated concept, and are all for things that tears down those walls. This one's fairly small, but they exist. They attack single server lfd because is an necessarily arbitrary limitation that does nothing but make the tool less effective
4. There's a group that isn't really pro-lfd or anti-lfd, and argue against the bad arguments on either side. Since the anti-lfd side has more of these, they get hit by this group. They attack the idea of a single server lfd because the people in favor of it don't actually have very good arguments. They stop attacking once you add a valid argument for your case, but if you continue to use bad logic, insults, rhetoric, and large font in pace of arguments you'll continue seeing them
5. And then there's the tiny miniscule fraction of 1% that are griefers looking for a better way of griefing. They attack the tool because they want to grief.

It's possible that I missed a group.

There's no significant increase in griefers between single server and cross server lfd. In both cases the rate is miniscule.

Then why is the next expansion for WOW meant to appeal to children? Pokemons and Kung Fu Pandas, are those really supposed to appeal to adults? Blizzard knows that the adult base is moving away from their game (and frankly the genre).

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This is all the general chat is full of on the imperial fleet, no LFG too isnt promoting social interaction, it directly counteracts it since you cant talk in general chat cause of all the LFG spam (which unfortunately has nowhere else to go since there isnt even a LFG chat channel)