ClassicLFG addon

[Janorie-moon-guard]

This post was probably the last thing they did before going home for the weekend. So yeah - might be a bit on the elaboration.

[Aprion-lightninghoof]

People are going to find groups so fast with 20k people on a server that people will only need to advertise for a group one time and get 20 replies and have a full group.

[Slapfight-proudmoore]

We’ve been closely following the community discussion around this add-on for WoW Classic, as well as analyzing it to make sure we understand how it works. After careful examination, we believe the nature of ClassicLFG is incompatible with our social design for Classic. Thus, in an upcoming patch (in the weeks following launch), we will be adding restrictions to the Classic add-on API that will significantly limit this add-on and others like it.

In line with what we shared at BlizzCon last year, we intend to be very careful about allowing add-on functionality that might undermine aspects of the social dynamics that are core to the Classic experience, even in cases like this where it’s clear that the addon author had no ill intent and was simply trying to provide a service to the Classic community. Ultimately, if a streamlined group-finding system was something we considered compatible with Classic, we would have kept the modern Premade Group Finder tool rather than choosing to remove it from the Classic client.

It’s difficult to articulate a clear-cut rule for exactly when an add-on crosses the line. However, when an add-on goes beyond presenting information or providing aesthetic customization, and attempts to create an interconnected social network that relies on other players also using that same add-on, we are likely to scrutinize it particularly closely.

Awesome. Hey while you guys are at it, you might wanna take a peek at this Classic wow subreddit discussion as well . Hmm seems i cant post links but there is part of the subject line below.

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[Janorie-moon-guard]

Maybe the bulk of us just saw the writing on the wall… Death of an Addon… incoming.

[Aeldor-barthilas]

The Classic Dev team is the best team !!

[Kaggan-moon-guard]

Flooding the forums with multiple messages on your multiple toons isn’t going to change anything.

The majority won this time. No automated joining a group addon. Nice to see Blizz actually keep a promise for once.

[Lirtwa-wyrmrest-accord]

At least there’s server discords for LFGing still.

[Tzipi-stormrage (Tzipi)]

ClassicLFG, had it not been shot down like a dog in the street,

This must be a Horde thing. Never happens in Stormwind.

[Metrohaha-firetree (Metrohaha)]

wut? Sorry a lot of conversations happening at once here. What are you talking about again?
Yes, there was automated group forming for those looking for very general content.
No, they didn’t intentionally design the game without group finder, as it was added via meeting stones then with a proper menu in 2.0.

No facts, as I do not work for Blizzard.
Just observations.

[Kelzar-agamaggan (Kelzar)]

1. ohh so hard to get to an innkeeper(also ignoring CTA)

2. so does this addon…

3. so because it incorporates a chat spam macro which where everywhere in vanilla its bad?

[Poolfish-stormrage]

I think you are the only person who takes issue with that.
I for one, and I’m probably not alone on this, will appreciate the ability to easily find a group in general/trade chat with the high number of people.

[Aeldor-barthilas]

Incase anyone missed it - below was the ClassicLFG addon in action

https://clips.twitch.tv/RudeInquisitiveDragonFreakinStinkin

[Celessi-turalyon]

I don’t think you’re understanding that it’s also going to mean so many other other people advertising for groups other than yours. Messages are going to scroll off of everyone’s screens VERY fast.

[Pyrofilia-zuljin]

It means they’re breaking something that will probably break 100 other things

[Illicoon-area-52]

Nothing is broken right now. People will use this up to 60 and well into the first weeks of end game.

[Metrohaha-firetree (Metrohaha)]

You can designate your role, but the nature of it can not be used to auto fill a group.
You could not set parameters to do so either.
So if you wanted 8 tanks for a 40 man, you couldn’t choose that. etc.

The role/spec thing was just a cosmetic thing really.

[Kelzar-agamaggan (Kelzar)]

cool make it easy to ignore you because you do not understand the difference between LFG and LFD…

god how many people don’t understand these are different things…

[Gobdabuilder-illidan]

Nahh, i just force them to demonstrate their talents. They fail /ignore and on the list. You don’t get to lie because you want to be a low character and selfish person.

[Aprion-lightninghoof]

whos going to use discord looking for a group for a 5 man? Just using the in game chat is so much better.

[Trashbringer-arygos]

The game releases in mere days and its not as simple as flipping a switch, dont be ignorant.