Someone explain the LFG tool hate?

thats is just why he is sugesting it cant u see that

People have already explained why cross-server group finder is bad on the forums. For reasonable people with common sense, they will understand it. For unreasonable people who don't listen to anyone but themselves, no amount of "explaining" will convince them.

..... how would a LFG tool or a cross server one negatively impact you?

For simplicities sake lets say there are 10 jerks per server equally divided so 5 jerks on each faction. With same server it's quite easy to isolate those jerks from my play. However with x-server I'm then (being on an EU server) faced with coming across 455 jerks! Yes, I can put them on ignore, hopefully all, but my play will be impaired for a much longer period of time whilst my ignore list fills up.

Yes obviously x-server allows for a more timely instance however I'd prefer to take a little longer and stay same realm, for the moment. You can say make a toggle and we can have the best of both worlds, well I've already stated above why I believe that that doesn't create a level playing field. Obviously you don't accept that but sticking your head in the sand and refusing to accept that other people have these concerns just brings us in circles.

Bioware are already working on a same server LFG but you just wont give it a chance, I understand that. I'm willing to wait and see if it, together with transfers will work. If it doesn't I'll grudgingly support a x-server tool.

Incidentally, what's wrong with the LFG tool that's already in the game? You can search for all flagged LFG in your zone, or for a selection of people on your server. People who flag themselves LFG aren't usually averse to a quick, polite private tell. But even people who haven't set their flag may have the same mission as you, which they have flagged, and, again, are for that purpose likely to be amenable to a quick, polite private tell. Heck, so long as you're polite and bear in mind that a person may be busy, most people aren't averse to a little conversation. (This is not like cold calling, since players are playing a massively multiplayer online game, and those intent on soloing can easily say "not lfg" or whatever.)

And meanwhile of course you can stick the occasional lft request in general.

Automated tool is nice too, but the tool that exists is still functional for the purposes of communication.

*sigh* for all the modern era boasts of communication, it seems like communication skills are being lost in MMOs.

Not so much, there is a lot of emotion tied up in this question and that makes it VERY complex... plus there are hundreds of differing opinions and then shades of grey on each opinion.

Profiling people is dangerous, putting everyone in a group like this because your personal experience has been bad is a slippery slope. I have not come to that conclusion and I have been playing since Ruins of Kunark came out in EQ1.

This is in great debate, many people have said that if you try and post xxx is a troll or ninja, or you say it in /trade in WoW... people either do not believe you, or you get accused of being one yourself. The only people that this really has effect on is your personal buddys that you run with.

This is open to huge debate also. I know many people that dont care at all about loot and if you need on something and ninja it... they just want to run with competent people and get dungeons done to get valor.

Again a very dangerous statement... no proof of this is in evidence, this is your personal observation. Saying someone is more likely to harass someone due to a LFG tool? Wow...

The problem with this is many people do not care about a community and just want to play the game. Many do not see a community at all, they see themselves mindlessly doing /tank LF Flashpoint xyz... and getting no group and logging off.

Another VERY subjective point... If you are a very casual player then yes, this statement may be true, if you take the game a bit more seriously... applications and vent interviews are not only the norm... but just the beginning of being able to join a guild.

This is where it seems the point is made, everything else kind of falls by the wayside... if you cant get a group and cant do content... you wont stay subbed for this game and you will never meet people to begin with.

Yet another very dangerous idea... forcing people to do anything almost like cutting your own throat... people pay money to play how they want to play... not how they are dictated to play. That being said there is enough forced on us as is, and enough options taken away as is, it would be best not to add another one.

Very good point, I agree 100% and I think this is where the pro LFG people are standing... they just want to do content and cant with how things are now... for whatever reason, be it low pop server, anti social fleet, no one on planets... whatever the problem is.


I agree again, I have 2 50's and neither saw a FP past Black Talon on the way to 50... and trust me, I looked. I have played every FP with my Jedi Consular because I rolled her on Fatman (by far the highest pop server)

Being hand held tends to do this but I have a feeling a lot of players don't even know that an LFG tool does exist right now

Exactly... no tool is useful if people don't use it... Reminds me of the meeting stones in WOW... completely useless. If the community is not useing them, then there is something wrong... unless the dev can convince people it works and gives good results then it is a problem.

I have yet to see more than one person my level with a LFG thing on them... and when i whispered them there responce was basically "no thank you, i need to turn that thing off"

but the simple fact of the matter is people don't use it because it's weak.