Be Careful for what you wish for

touche.

Point taken!

Gotta love the rare drops that you soooo want cause you found out about it via Wowhead.com or saw it in game.

At one point I was all about having as many pets as possible... after the first grind, I was content with that ONE rare pet!

On the whole, I agree with you. I think LFG has nasty side effects, but I also think stranding people on low pop servers will hurt the game in the long run too.

So Blizzard needs to manage pops more effectively, and hopefully come up with a new spin on LFG that will bring most of the benefits and less of the drawbacks.

Heh, don't get me started. I've lost hours of my life because I saw something on WowHead and decided my toon had to have it.

<Wall of text> crits for eleventybillion damage, so I didn't read...

No doubt it's a "I hate the game but I'm still here posting about it" post...

I think you mean people who refuse to run cookie cutter builds, or people who prefer talking to the group do not like cross server lfg.

From my experience with WOW and RIFT, all it did was kill the games and create silent groups of cookie cutters. The fun of the old mmos, was taking chances with a ragtag group and wiping a few times before finally prevailing and getting some nice shiny loot.
Even guilds in mmos have become closer to work than a group of friends helping each other. In the days before crossserver lfg guilds were a close knit group of people willing to help each other, now most guild simply tell new or lower level members to use the lfg tool because they are too busy grinding for their epeen. Yes a few guild are exceptions, however what is the point in grouping up when no one is willing to chat and have some actual fun rather than grinding out another dungeon or quest.

this is funny.

no sir.

bad players and those wanting to grief are the ones that embrace this tool because they can be bad/grief without worry of ostracism and be carried like the dead weight they are.

i am against a cross server LFD tool. and i more than likely carried you in our groups in wow if you grouped with me.


once it was implemented in wow it became next to impossible to find a group of people that wanted to run a same server dungeon *unless it was guildies, sometimes. because its easier to click a button and stand around in stormwind/ogrimar than it is to actually risk having to interact with people that you see on a daily basis that might just see how bad you really are.

Cross server play for the sake of getting groups together would likely be less necessary if each server had reduced instances/shards.

Just sayin'.


Sand

I have read every post in here, and I'm baffled that people who say they love playing MMOs are apparently not social enough to actually TALK to people to get groups. It doesn't take hours to get a group together, it takes 1 braincell.

Step 1: Open Who tab.
Step 2: Click LFG DPS/Tank/Healer (w/e) and the name of the FP you want to run.
Step 3: Send out "DPS/Tank/Healer LFG for X HM"
Step 4: Go back to Who.
Step 5: Find level 50s in your area.
Step 6: Send out a whisper: "Hey. I was wondering if you wanted to come for X HM?"

It also helps to throw in a question about what specc they are.
Using this simple SOCIAL method I get groups within 2-3 minutes. In peak hours it takes me less than 1 minute. In dead hours it takes me maybe up to 10 minutes.

Using WoW's LFD I use 10 minutes in peak time and 40+ minutes in dead times (the game doesn't even give me a time estimate during dead hours because there aren't anyone).
If you haven't tried this incredibly simple, effortless thing to get a group, you have no right to ***** about it taking too long. It will take even longer with a WoW-type LFD system.

Not every player is happy about being constantly whispered by random others asking "Hey wanna come do this Flashpoint?"
Plus, how is that any different from sitting and spamming the General channel in fleet?