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

It’s a time thing, certain members of this community want the same rewards as those that put in more time than them.

Because paying $15 makes them special.

Not to sound like a jerk here, but clearly you didn't play WoW before the LFG tool was put in. There was high accountability, often if you acted with the kind of attitude you're using in this post, your reputation as a player was ruined on that server and you never got into any kind of dungeon or raid as long as you stayed on it. Your only option was to start over fresh on a new server.

As for the master loot comment, there is no master loot option in flashpoints that i am aware of. i've never seen it used if there is, nor would people run with someone in a flashpoint if there were and the group leader turned it on.

If you are not for a "community element" game, then you're going to be in for a bit of a surprise. the community element is already built in, hence the social rank system. There are a lot of MMO veterans here and we enjoy having a friendly community on our servers. We like getting along with the other players on our server. If we wanted a bunch of people with a bad attitude, we'd stay on Warcraft. But we're not on warcraft. We're on ToR and we want it to be a good game with a friendly community, so more players will come join us and have fun.

What we don't like is the elitist and entitled attitude we see from younger players. We generally auto-ignore people like that who go on a rant over chat. We're here to have fun, we've been around for a long time. We know what works, and what doesn't.

A LFG tool would work, if it is restricted to only find people from our server.

Nonsense. Stop trolling. Prove that it is a community oriented game or shut up.

Facts:
Bioware announced in 2009 that this game would also be for working dads with limited playtime who can't sign for countless hours of chat just to experience the content. A cross server tool is the continuity and the solution for them.
- there is no social games.
- there is no community efforts required outside of group PvE content.

- stop trolling. you don't know what you are talking about.

This is probably the best argument "for" that I've read so far.

What if we were given the choice between intra server or cross server and they instituted perks for those who chose "intra"?

1/10 for trolling.

Anythings better than sitting in the IP for hours on end spamming LFG in chat.

cute , you think those people are the minority when they are the majority.Very few people are whiling to restart their now lvl 50 charater on a different server because their server is dead; most will just quit. Cant wait for the upcoming Cross-Server LFD .