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

So we need new ideas. I agree that are just certain situations where you are not going to find a group no matter what they do. But you saying it's impossible to fix?

spamming general chat and pestering people not on the fleet is your idea of socializing?

And I have bad news for you if you think that atm any kind of real socializing occurs.

Boss strats, loot, bad behavior are the conversation topics and have been before any sort of lfg system.

My experience with mmo's from wow's first year, EQ a week from rifts release has not indicated any sort of server community as the counter-argument would have me believe exists and thrives before a lfg system.

Besides anything the vast majority of people just arn't that social, people wont strike up conversations at a bus stop.

I liked one anti-lfg persons response to that: "No I strike up conversations at a pub" where you or who your talking to has already had there inhibitions watered down and where more social people are far more likely to gather.

Not at all...cross server lfg is the fix.

As another has said this isn't a new issue for mmo's it's just far more glaring with the much larger audience mmo's now enjoy.

Please don't put any words in my mouth. I personally never complained about this game being a single player experience.

You say that the main ingredient of a succesful MMO is giving people (or forcing them) to socialize. That's your opinion - nothing wrong with that. That doesn't make it a universally accepted and ultimately true fact though.

In my opinion the main ingredient of a (financially, which is the only thing EA cares about) succesful MMO is accessibility, convenience and ease of use.

I already said this somewhere in this thread. So I'm just going to go ahead and quote myself.

Bioware needs to use Rift Cross server LFG tool.

Its perfect. Enough said.

Thank you for being so open minded. So there is 0 innovation to be had in MMOs now?

Spamming is not socializing. It's not effective either. Do you honestly listen to car sales pitches on tv commercials? Buy now , only fifty-nine ninety nine THATS RIGHT THIS WEEKEND ONLY ONLY 5995! ...Why would you listen to people repeatedly spamming in general? Try a different tactic.

Boss strats aside, I seem to recall entirely different topics in my groups. But then again, I met awesome people and knew it and made sure I was friends with them. The tossers and tools I let fall by the wayside. We actually had fun in our old groups, a few wipes were worth the lulz of putting misdirect on our favorite elemental shaman after 2 chain lightnings on a trash pull.

But you're right: The vast majority of people aren't that social and wouldn't talk to one another at a bus stop. You know why? Because nowadays there really is no such thing as a community. People barely make eye contact let alone smile or wave at one another and really, can you blame them? No one needs anyone anymore. We can all, for the most part, be self sufficient without any help from our neighbors, and that's the point. When you don't need anyone around you for help, you're not playing an mmo.

Cross server lfg will solve all the problems with finding groups, if you have a better plan do share.

Running around insisting there's a compromise is all well and good but unless you actually have something in mind it's just empty words.

And cross server lfg is the innovation, it is efficient and it's certainly better then bioware's current offering and a step above same server system.

The only thing I could think of would be some sort of grouping algorithm.

When you queue up for a flashpoint the tool will try to group you with people from your server. It will try and do that for a specific amount of time (depending on how long other people in your level range or for that specific flashpoint waited for a server-only-group and whether or not the group was eventually formed with people only from your server).

After that specific amount of time the tool will try and put a Cross-Server-Group together.

This alongside some major server-merging might solve a lot of the problems.

Maybe it's an age thing, I'm 23 and I don't know what this world is you speak of, my experience in game and life are completly at odds with what you insist is there and will be destroyed with a cross server tool.