I have had a completely different interaction with it. At least on a pvp server that is. I actually am a fan of the current lfg tool.
I was running a few dungeons there were moments where we would discuss dungeon location or help someone with a quest nearby the dungeon first, horde problems. Agreeing to attack horde and having a little fun and most importantly if someone was being ganked we showed up to help em and get vengeance. Over all this is a social interaction that would NEVER of happend with a instanced based teleport/queue system where I could just afk inside of a Inn intill a sound goes off.
Over all I think it needs minor tweaks to fix the minor bugs but other wise what we have now is better then nothing at all.
You took it out of context by quoting one line from my paragraph and ignoring the nuance of RDF… I wasn’t talking about BEFORE classic wrath. I’m talking about current classic wrath.
But we’re on opposite sides of the argument. If you really believe it’s going to kill a community, then make it server specific. You get the same result as the LFG tool with the exception of not needing to run to dungeons. The LFG tool produces near exact results that RDF does if RDF was realm specific. If that would somehow kill your socialization, that’s your fault. You can type in chat just as easy.
There is no before and after, Classic is a continuum. You can talk about Era or SoM as isolated, but not the main Classic progression. The point of Classic was to not be retail, if you’re just going to add retail things to Classic then shut down the servers.
I tried making a group for my level 30 Shaman for SM Graveyard and I waited maybe 20 mins and then finally I looked to make my own group from the people who had posted groups and every one of them kept declining me a healer from making a group to do it. At that point I was like “man I sure wish there was a system that automated this…”
That’s great people actually whisper you. I just get auto invited and who knows wtf is going on. Usually it isn’t for the dungeon I’m listed for. When I try to form a group and whisper people I may or may not get a response. And then they may or may not still want to run the dungeon. And if they do they may or may not actually be attuned.
Honestly, we got something that is the worst of both worlds. Same lack of social interaction of RDF without the convenience. It’s going to get a lot worse.
We’re always open to feedback, but I doubt we’ll change our mind on automatic dungeon finder. I know its contentious, but there are enough people cheering that I think we’re making the right call.
We want players who don’t want it to have a place where they can play without it.
– Brian Brimingham, Classic WoW Dev Team @Twitter on Apr 19, 2022.
