It doesn’t matter, even if I granted you that “spamming a macro” is how you find groups without DF, it’s still more interaction than is needed compared to getting DF to do it for you. That’s all that matters. That a non-zero level of effort is required.
Zipzo already went through his thought process a while back in one of these threads, it really boiled down to some real moonguard RP stuff on his part, like peak basement dweller mode lol.
You whisper people, you discuss their roles or what they can do to fill the group needs. You ask if they wanna do this dungeon or that dungeon before they run the one they want, you work out what sort of classes would be better to fill the remaining roles, or whatever…
There’s a ton of variables that occur when manually forming a group. Just because you’re silent and engage with these systems like a robot doesn’t mean everyone does.
What you’re doing is generalizing your personal approach to what can be an interactive experience, and instead painting it to be “the same as DF” simply because you’re some kind of anti-social who approaches everything like a random DF group.
Sorry, but others approach the process differently than you, and additionally, Blizzard heard us, and is working to preserve that.
Quit or play something else if it bothers you that much.
Just think about the gatekeeping going on in TBCC. It’s going to be so much worse in Wrath, especially since Blizz has said they want to effectively add Mythic+, which means even more min/maxing.
You look at the LFG channel or this Retail tool…it’s just business. There’s no community forming aspect. People don’t care who they group with. It’s not a person. It’s just a spec and a gearscore.
A lot of people might do that and that will hurt WotLK classic.
It had the most potential for growth but that’s out of the window now.
It caters to the old school Classic folks who already had several years with their desired game and drives away a lot of players who wanted to come back for this nostalgia trip.
But it doesn’t even stop there because some of the changes might even anger the old Classic fanbase, like keeping dungeons harder and taking an M+ approach similar to retail.
If WotLK fails in the long run and fails to keep a big playerbase, it will be over as quickly as Classic and TBC and I doubt anyone wants that. So it might also be in your best interest to not brag about how all those players should just go elsewhere.
That’s such a dumb take, really. WotLK is not even Classic, I don’t even know what people like you are thinking when you’re writing something like that.
But that’s the toxic mindset of modern WoW players I guess. “Haha, nananana, you don’t get to have fun, that’s great!”.
Just like all games in their finished state are opinions of the development team on how it should be, this is no different.
How does exclaiming that something is an opinion do anything for you?
Yeah it is, you’re just waxing ad hominem about Blizzard’s “intelligence level”, being verbally abuse towards the devs because they don’t do what you want. It’s off-topic and inappropriate to be honest.