No Cross Realm LFG tool please!

No, the top guilds are not the money. Big, successful guilds are the exception, not the norm. Just like top-end raiders and the best PvP players are the outliers.

The norm is casual players. That's where the money is.

BW said themselves that they're creating the LFG tool because too few players are getting into flashpoints, especially pre-50.

What do you think is going to happen on the 80%+ of the servers that are low population when they put a same-server LFG tool in? I'll answer that for you... the numbers BioWare saw that told them too few people are getting into flashpoints won't change dramatically.

Why?

Because there simply aren't enough people on those low pop servers to support single-server LFG.

BioWare will have 3 choices at that point:

1. Abandon the desire to get more players into flashpoints. Highly unlikely since they've already stated it's a goal.

2. Server merges. Highly unlikely due to the expected impact this will have on investors' perception of the success of the game.

3. Cross-Server LFG. Highly likely next step. What else will realistically solve the problem?

A more accurate answer would be, we have played that other game with cross-server LFD, and we don't like the bad behavior that it has brought out. So we are against it. In fact, there are people on the forums of that other game, also complaining loudly against cross-server LFD.

So your idea that people who are against cross-server dungeon finder are due to certain specifics of playing in swtor has just been nullifed. That other game with supposedly 10 million subscribers also has their share of anti-cross-server LFD people.

VAs a result, the leatest 5 man heroics and the new Looking for Raid tool was added to bring more content in favor of the casual players.

The downside to that was they made it too easy in my opinion. The reason I left WoW was out of boredom. I could faceroll my way through the new 5-mans and the new raid was just the same old stuff.

Currently I think the balance of difficulty in the Flashpoints here is good. Just the problem is of course actually getting to experience it.

If the LFD is so despised, then why do so many players use it?

Surely if the majority hated it, they'd just continue to look for pugs on chat instead of using it?

Or is that thinking too logically?

Never seen a valid reason yet.

You say people act bad in if there is a LFD, don't use it.

Shockingly simple isn't it?

I'd also go as far to say that another reason "community" is lacking is that many current players either started playing or got used to that play style on other MMOs that already had the X-server tools and thus are conditioned away from a sense of community. It also plays to the "instant gratification" that younger players are so used to in their lives. "Its my FP and I want it NOW!!!!11!1!"

Also your "instant gratification" argument is wrong. That refers to rewarding people for no effort. People are still putting in the effort to finish the Flashpoint. Preferring to find a group for one within 30 minutes rather than 3 hours is not "instant gratification" that's just normal.

Nope, its quite right. If you have to work for that group you're going to try to get the most out of that run as possible.

The X-server LFG tool gets you a group fast, said group then proceeds to run the instance in as short as time possible so they can re-queue to whack the loot pinata again. Been there, done that. My 2 tanks and 2 healers had practically insta-pop as soon as I queued and I was usually finished all four of their instance dailies in about an hour.