You know what else affects you getting into dungeon groups? People who are higher level than you, people who have better gear, people LFGing exclusively in guild chat, or people who are just a different class snagging a group spot from you. The fact a small subset of people can’t parse your LFG message with their addon pales in comparison to a bunch of other aspects of classic you have to worry about.
Gear and level are in game mechanics.
LFG is a third party addon and should NEVER be required.
I find this very good !
I mean… thats the point dude. What makes vanilla special was the social aspect. You aren’t supposed to sit in LFG parsing chat all day long, you are supposed to make friends. You are supposed to join a guild, not just because you get perks and some random dude invited you, but because you can do things together.
I joined a guild. I made friends. You don’t see me on here whinging about how tiresome it is to parse chat channels because I don’t have to. Ur doin it wrong bro.
if you adventure in the world, do quest and talk to people, your friends list starts to grow, people will ask you and you have people you can ask… its that important social aspect of classic
I agree. Addons should never be required to play the game; luckily enough there exists a popular chat channel for finding groups, called LookingForGroup. It doesn’t require any addons to join, and a TON of people use it on every realm.
Type /join LookingForGroup
=)
No, lucky for us, blizzard banned ClassicLFG!
I’d argue that was never their goal. They looked at the addon in-depth and found some things they didn’t like, and now they’re patching those things out of the API.
I got two guildies saying it still works. Are you sure?
It seems like the /who function was blocked from addons to prevent gold sellers from automating chat channel invites. Has anyone gotten any lately (in the past 8 hours or so?)
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It will, the only thing this change does is prevent it from providing you with the person who whispered you’s Level, Guild Name, and Class. It’s more likely to have abused the guild spam than this and even then that seems a bit overzealous.
ClassicLFG wasn’t banned. The problem functionality was removed from the addon, and Blizzard is working on making sure their API doesn’t allow addons to reproduce that functionality.
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It seems like Blizzard does not want people to know the population of their realms. Does this mean Classic is losing a lot of players?
This is stupid. Census addon is definitely vanilla-like and relevant to collecting stats about player demographics.
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Using /who wasn’t the issue with ClassicLFG. This change is about something else… probably layers.
I doubt that. Herod queues have been pretty darn consistent recently.
So… are you going to update the addon so that it works?
After 30 mins this morning ClassicCensusPlus found 0 players.
/who has nothing to do with layers and Blizzard has actually stated that as fact.
Another popular theory is that you can determine your current layer by doing a /who in a capital city, and comparing the results against the /who your friend does. That doesn’t work because /who returns results from the entire realm, not just from your layer, and if the result set is too large it truncates the results before sorting them.
My bets are on Blizz trying to brick gold seller chat channel invites; they’re likely automated with a custom addon that relies on /who.
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Why else would they break the census addons though? And Herod queues have gone from 20k down to 5k~6k during peak hours. There is no queue on Herod for most of the day.
It’s right here.
I seriously think they’re not giving us the whole story there.
I genuinely have no idea.
It was only 20k for a few days. For the past couple weeks it’s been consistently around 5k during peak.