Someone explain the LFG tool hate?

That's fine and I have no reason to disbelieve you. I won't even suggest you are exaggerating because it is your experience, same as other people have different experiences across many games. All I was pointing out is this is not a fact as to why a x-server LFG is required.

Why would you have to change your characters name(s), are they all so special and distinct that everyone is using them on various servers?

It was around 200. Sure the guild perks are nice and we are a level max 25 guild rating. We donot take just anyone..in fact we are not a "open" enrollment guild. You have to know someone in the guild who will reccommend them. We only have one rule..which is to respect others in word and deed. And we feel strongly about that. It has a lot to do with this discussion and the LFG should also include Operations IMO.

We donot have a open enrollment. You have to know someone in the guild who can reccommend you. Word of mouth spreads you know? We have only one rule....respect others at all times , in word or deed and we take that to heart. My point is...as far the healthy functioning community with-in my guild atleast, the cross server LFG has not had any negative impact on it. It is up to the members within a guild and more importantly the leadership of those guilds what type of community you will have. We team up often in all kinds of events, and on occasion have did all guild raid runs.

It's a reason for me to want one..lol. And they will not let you transfer a char to a server when your char's name is the same as some other char on the server you are going to. May not happen..but it is possible and you..the one transfering would have to change it. Not a option for me. I role play and my char's names are very important. I donot know how common they are and donot care.

The question here is probably, would your guild community be affected in WoW if there was no LFG tool for 85 instances? The answer is probably no, the point is LFG is meant for putting PUG's together, not for guilds (although they obviously use it for the freebie valor points).

I believe that when people use the word 'community' they are talking about the server wide community. Your version of community may differ.

I think it would be affected without a cross server LFG tool. Because our guild is made up of casual gamers. Ones who donot want to logon at a specail time to do a raid or a 5 man heroic even. We all have the sense of freedom knowing we can log on whenever...and stay as long or short as we want and noone will get upset about it. The cross server LFG tool is looked at by EVERYONE in my guild as a positive thing. It has helped to inspire many in my guild to want to play.

Soooo... if you had an LFG tool that you can toggle the X-server function to "ON", and he had an LFG tool that he can turn the X-server function to "OFF", where is the problem?

We should be teaming up and asking BioWare to make one instead of bickering over nothing now that a solution is here.

Unless you think that not enough people would use the X-server toggle? That people have to be "forced" to so that you can have your group?

It becomes a problem when people who try to genuinely RPG the "old" fashioned way have to battle against the path of least resistance. What if Bioware is trying to break the mold and make an actual MMORPG where it's not all about telporting to instances all the time? Maybe the Pro X-LFG people are in the wrong game, is it their right to change that?

hehe..I allready agreed with your suggestion. But I am not so sure from a technical point of view if such a tool could be added. I think if it was implemented with a toggle off/on a cross server LFG tool, the majority of the players would most certainly use the cross server selection. Logic would prevail. You want to spend a hour or longer and maybe not even get a grp or get one within a reasonable time?

Players in very active group run guilds or ones on high pop servers would be the ones most likely not to use it. Which would be understandable. End result would be however a large enough pool of players to make up groups using the cross server version. Noone is ever "'forced" to use a LFG tool. Not in WoW or any other MMO.

Hell, I know that, for me, even if the X-server toggle was on it, I'd leave it "OFF". And if I couldn't get a group? So be it. I'll wait for guildies and do something else. Not like I haven't done that already.