It’s great at getting people to see the content, and it takes the legwork out of putting a group together. My dad likes LFG because he has a limited amount of time to play every week, and I think it’s cool that he gets to do what I’ve been doing for 15 years now.
On the other hand, I dislike the nature of random queuing systems in general because I think it brings out the worst attitudes in people, and those attitudes then sort of bleed over into other in-game activities. It also erodes some of the more RPG-ish elements of the game by putting player matchmaking features behind a menu, although this is less a complaint about LFG and more a complaint about how menu-driven design in video games serves to take the player out of the experience entirely, something you probably don’t want out of your MMO. I could (and kinda want to) make an entire post around this fact… but I’m running ahead of myself.
Overall, I think LFG adds more value than it subtracts. I personally don’t like it, but I totally understand why Blizzard added it and I don’t hate the people that use it. At the same time, though, there’s definitely valid criticisms of the LFG tool and random queuing systems in general, and that’s an area of game design that isn’t talked about often enough.
Better than hours of sitting in front of the bank in Shatt.
The thing with FFXIV is it actually has difficult content even in LFG system, you have to communicate in order to clear the raids there, in WoW you can queue into a raid and just snooze through it and no one will hardly notice because it doesn’t matter.
Yes quite honestly. I fully admit there are some issues but it beats sitting in trade chat for hours saying “BM HUNTER LF GROUP 4 RAMPS!”.
Yes.
Not really. If you don’t want lfg, classic exists.
I can do other things rather than standing in 1 place spamming chat
Nay. It has been negative in the long run.
And, as to your wishes I wont expand any further.
LFG has been an extremely positive addition and it helps blizz justify the resource investment in raiding.
I’ve regularly used Lfd and lfg since they were implemented.
Things that make the game more accessible like these tools are very welcome.
The fact they make the special snowflakes butt hurt is an added bonus. Won’t lie about that…
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Yes and No - The Yes part is because it quickly gets you going in the content you seek - The No part is it disconnects you from people on your server unless you find a guild that does guild activities
Yeah it’s ok. It’s killed server communities. It would be nice if it only included people from your realm.
Don’t care about people who rolled on low pop realms or the queues they would have, sorry.
Yes, definitely.
Not only does it offer people who have busy real lives, or those not wishing or able to join Raiding Guilds or wait for Pugs the opportunity to see all the content they pay for, but down the track LFR and LFG give options for soloable acquisition of different gear and more variations of gear for transmog, so win win!
Anything that offers different variations of gear is great.
I like that it makes dungeons more accessible to everyone, but dislike that the anonymity of it makes some people feel like they can be giant jerks because there’s not really any acountability for being a tool