Someone explain the LFG tool hate?

No, the points being made are made up false claims, period. As I told one of your fellow elitsts, go look up WoWprogress and see how mahny thousands of guilds are thriving and downing content, if a LFG tool was all destructive, how do you explain more guilds, and more successful guilds?
What?

Why do you think so many people are here talking about? There is nobody to group with on the servers, even the fatman is at low population many times during the day, how do you call nobody to play with a success?

Again.....what?

WoW started the LFG system because their data showed that fewer than 20% of the players were able to find groups. The community was complainaing that there simply were not enough people on at the same time and from those who were there was a issue with getting gear to get ready for runs for the same reason of not enough other players to fill out runs.


It is people like you creatlng false fears against X server that baffle me to be honest.

There is no evidence at all that the LFG toll will have any negative effect. The largest and most successful MMO in history has been using it for a long time and they are getting bigger, not dying.

I got into a HM 4 man the other day where one of the guys took an item for a helper when I needed it for me, the guy quoted the staff of this game saying taking gear for helpers is perfectly okay, so where is the community action against a Ninja when even the staff say being a Ninja is okay? You have no basis for saying a LFG tool is bad, only empty claims that sound like fear of letting a 'casual' player get a chance at seeing endgame content and making the Elitists less "special".

A cross server LFG tool is a psychological experiment in human nature. It comprehensively proves that given the lack of accountability and the safe haven of anonymity, human beings are grade A jerks in nature.

That being said, purely from a gameplay standpoint, the pros outweigh the cons by a LOT by simply increasing the player pool to form your 4 man groups from. Result -- quicker turn around time for PvE and PvP queue.

Dungeons were ever designed to be a chain run only game. That's the concept the pro LFG folks haven't grasped. There is more to an MMO than running dungeons/FP's or whatever you want to call them. Learn the RPG part.

Nothing in the LFG tool is preventing you from enjoying the non dungeon aspect of the game. You are free to enjoy the RPG aspect equally as much with or without the LFG tool.

LFG stands for "Looking For Group" -- it's a feature exclusively designed to target that segment of the playerbase who likes to group and wants to group.

Kindly explain how an LFG tool will negatively impact your solo gameplay experience?

I really feel bad that so many of you feel it necessary to come here and say such wrong things over and over as if it was true, but of course you have no actual proof or facts to back up your claims.

If the LFG tool was so bad, why did WoW get stronger after they added it? If the tool eliminated guilds, why are there so many successful guilds on every WoW server? If everyone just runs crazy in the LFG raids why is it so many people do them and are so happy with them they keep paying their $15 a month?

The success of WoW directly proves you wrong.

UM........nice fantacy there, I guess it helps to support your false beliefs of how things are in WoW but the sad truth is the LFG tools came before activision, so sad for you to be so horribly wrong.

I have played WoW from vanilla and watched the LFG discussion from it's start and the reason they turned to it is the same reasons most of us are asking for it, nobody to group up with.

Other than a narrow 2 to 4 hour window on a couple servers, this game is barren. 20+ hours a day, 8 man groups are all but impossible to find.

So the issue is not that people are lazy, or that they want to ninja everything, or that they hate other people, the issue is about having enough people to run with outside that 2 to 4 hour window.

This is a lot more accurate then some want to beleave. The hold up now is not BioWare's concern about a cross sever tool messing up the community, but is from a technical issue with adding one for all the end game content. They are adding a cross server LFG tool for PVP. Which will allow them to see how such a tool will work. Eventually, like this poster said, they will add a cross server one for PVE content because it is needed. But they really should have worked on one during beta. I cannot help but feel this game was rushed out before some features they wanted to add at launch was done.

We don't necessarily want to chain-run dungeons, even though that wouldn't be a bad thing. Let players play the content they want to play.

But we do want the ability to get into a flashpoint without wasting more than half our gaming time standing around fleet doing nothing but spamming and waiting.

I agree with you completely. It's just a matter of how soon they will release a x-server LFG. It's long due.

I also think that the game was extremely poorly managed during development state. Too much resource were wasted on VO and story and too little on developing actual gameplay and QOL issues of the average gamer.

Lol, why are you wasting time standing around on the fleet? Go hit the planets where the payers are and start looking.g for a group while you quest.

As it has been pointed out many..many times, you do have the choice of not using a LFG tool you know? Donot like it..donot use it..simple solution. If you want to put down others for using it, then you are trying to tell them how a game should be played. And you are entitled to your opinion...but that is all it is. A LFG tool is coming soon..and I predict...eventually a cross server one for PVE content.