Do You want cross server LFG tool?

Cross Realm. No.
Server LFG. Yes.
Auto transport to FP through dungeon finder. Yes.
Realm transfer options and merging.. Yes.

Cross Realm ruined WoW for me. There is no accountability in a cross realm group.
Single Realm allows more of a chance to group with the same people again (build community relations) and use your ignore feature to avoid bad players.
The common complaint is that queues are slow on a single server. Typically they're slow cause there aren't enough healers and tanks. I'll tell you from my own experience that tanking in a cross realm dungeon can be intimidating if you're still learning or aren't a super geared phenom player. I think if everyone practiced a little more patience in dungeons and didn't assume that every run will be full throttle, hammer down, cake walk... maybe more players would try and learn the tank or healer role.

1) Won't help people on dead servers. Over 80% of the servers are in this category. May not even help people on Standard servers. Will help people on the 8% of servers that are Heavy or better. In short, no this won't help.

2) Won't happen any time soon. BioWare will not admit defeat by merging servers earlier in a game's life than any other MMO in history. Admitting defeat being in the eyes of the stock market, which can seriously impact EA's bottom line.

3) Temporary solution at best. Server populations shift over time. What is high today might be low tomorrow, then you're in the same boat.

Please give a concrete example of bad behavior in a community that is driven by X-LFG that does not exist in this game right now.

1) It can if implimented correctly. eg: have player level bands or mission pickups so you can say "hey, you have mission, fp XYZ..."

2) Server merges do not admit defeat. since they have done this in FFXIV, subscriptions have gone up. Gameplay has increased for many.

3) Why would this only be temporary?

And why not a mix of all 3? I see no reason why this will not solve the initial complaint?

as for your example, since a certain game introduced the LFG tool, subscriptions have been lost.

Exibit A: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9SR0fMX9A1...25283%2529.png

Ninja looting, a complaint from players themselves, exibit B: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2352185270

and exibit C, a more wordy example of exibit A: http://tera-forums.enmasse.com/forum...in-other-games

There's your evidence

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I'm goad you brought this up because I was there for both implementation of same server lfg, and it failed in both games miserably. I hope they don't go this way to "try" and see if it works, it won't. And you've lost more time for people to drop the game. Bioware in my mind has created some very good content, but if ppl don't have the chance to get into it.....this game won't survive, and that's sad because they have something good....but there are a few things the mmo player of 2012 won't do without.

Exactly..esp number 3. WoW and Rift also tried same server first. That failed and they both went to a cross server one. Which no matter how much you hate it...has been very successful in doing what it is meant to do...get the casual players ( who pay the same sub fee ) into a lot of game content they otherwise would never experence.

1) It can if implimented correctly. eg: have player level bands or mission pickups so you can say "hey, you have mission, fp XYZ..."

2) Server merges do not admit defeat. since they have done this in FFXIV, subscriptions have gone up. Gameplay has increased for many.

3) Why would this only be temporary?

And why not a mix of all 3? I see no reason why this will not solve the initial complaint?

as for your example, since a certain game introduced the LFG tool, subscriptions have been lost.

Exibit A: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9SR0fMX9A1...25283%2529.png

Ninja looting, a complaint from players themselves, exibit B: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2352185270

and exibit C, a more wordy example of exibit A: http://tera-forums.enmasse.com/forum...in-other-games

There's your evidence

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WoWs same server LFG was a POS. The interface sucked and the matching sucked. You were better off using it to find groups manually. Even then much like the tool we have now, it sucked and no one used it. They eventually brought back the global LFG channel to find groups the old fashioned way. It wasnt until cross-server that they finally made the matching work correctly and efficiently, it wasnt random dungeon until x-server, and it sure as hell didnt offer rewards (specially to the rarer roles) until cross server.

Just because it failed in WoW doesnt mean it will here. Only thing a same server needs is a well populated server, some incentive to actually do an FP more than once (ever), and a welcoming interface with efficient design that people will actually use! Only thing including an Xserver does is speed up the matching, which is all nice until its all turned into a "gogogo" "insta kick/replace for any stupid reason" "I can be a jerk, nothing will ever happen" "tanks are special snowflakes" "silent drone runs" ... we have going on in WoW.

And yes, the Xserver either started or greatly multiplied those behaviors. Going on my 4th 50 now and I have yet to be in a group that doesnt talk, a group that just wants to rush through everything (other than dialogue theyve seen 100 times AT END GAME), or a group that kicks someone for every tiny mistake because a new one will instantly replace and pop up right in front of the leader. Something thats BTW happening in WoW constantly ... so much so there is a new threads/posts about it every day (seems every day I check there are 2 new ones 1, 2).

Downplay it or ignore it all you want, the proof is all over that game. Making insta-gratification groups, porting them, and removing all accountability and consequence from their communities GREATLY devalues the grouping feature of an MMO.