it’s not the spamming chat. it’s cross-realm that sucks
If nobody is from my server, i personally might ninja blues to shard later in town. I might ragequit instantly if the run is not worth my time. cuz idgaf if i troll some pve nubs from a horde-only megaserver, who i will never see again.
I know everyone on here claims they are some saint and the above behavior WILL NEVER happen, has never happened, or “already happens now in tbc classic” (It probably is bad on mega servers i have no doubt of that)
Due to parselords transferring at the first sign of wpvp, there are too many “dead realms” that are actually unplayable when it comes to forming dungeons. For this reason I still support crossrealm LFD.
I quit for original wotlk, so IDK if you can get 5 server mates then queue and still get a reward bag? if so that is cool and the reward bag should stay too.
Also I assume tank players will “wts instant queue” in trade chat, allowing DPS to bypass the wait time for a fee. People will cry on forum about this too.
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TLDR: people WILL troll more, and play worse, with crossrealm. At the end of the day, we still need crossrealm LFD, due to players destroying their own servers and blizz doing nothing about that
I understand the concern and that’s why I never wanted Dungeon Finder in Classic. But at this point…what cross server? It isn’t cross server, and doesnt need to be. THere are really only 3 servers. 1 is all Horde. 1 is all alliance. 1 is somewhat balanced. Each have 20k+ people.
At this point what are we preserving? Spamming LFG chat just to hope someone sees your post in a server with 20k other people? That’s hell. And amongst all of that, you could be on the same server and still ninja with no social consequences. There are 20k other people! A little late for Blizz to worry about preserving classic. it’s already gone.
Retail is a failure and classic was the biggest success since classic was around the first time. Classic in all its glory and infamy.
People came to play classic because it was classic. Some people came to classic and complained it was classic. (Then why play classic?) Obviously the people that wanted classic (“boomers”?) arent the ones that said “I dont want to level again, I want to buy an alt because it is too grindy” The grind IS classic. The grind is why classic exists. I dont think the “boomers” are the ones crying to turn Wow into the game they hated.
But Blizz had a genius idea in TBC. Make it like retail. Kill leveling. Sell the ridiculous cash shop vanity items that make ya cringe. This is why you have to spam LFG on a mega server. Blizz appealed to the instant gratification crowd and killed its golden goose.
Unfortunately we might actually need LFD now. Otherwise yes, you will have to spam to been seen over the 20k other people on your server.
Literally, some still do play on smaller servers, of course. But statistically they dont. My wife and I are 2 of those people on the server with a couple hundred. Actually we just lost 2 guilds last night so probably less now. Inevitably the server will be forced to transfer at some point.
We are in the biggest and most active guild that basically has everyone. So LFG chat is the same as guild chat. Still, nobody does anything but dailies. It is brutal.
I dont want to be on a server with 20k people, but it is either that or unsub.
When that happens. I’d prefer a LFD at this point to spamming LFG with copy and paste just to be seen. I’m already gonna be anonymous and everyone is gonna be unaccountable for ninjaing so what are we saving?
The only other hope is finding a good guild, which again with 20k people is gonna be throwing a dart at a list of names and hoping for the best.
yeah okay. but if you ask me what slaughtered the community was LFR not LFG. no one wants to do lower level dungeons once they are geared. and allot of people only have one or two alts, if even that. but LFG worked in wrath with no issues and would be part of the wrath experience. if you don’t want dungeon finder done use it. but i bet if it were there there would be better prepared players all around to do raids with. Also it would SHUT UP that stupid lfg chat that is more bs then LFG posts. its turned into a global trade chat…
You are wrong. The personality you described are obviously there. But it is not common. If you think you are only doing what you do because deep down, we all do it, you are very much mistaken.
I am not trying to change your actions. Somewhere deep down in your brain something went wrong. I get it. You cant help it. But you should at least be self aware that what you are doing is not what the rest of us are doing. Dont justify it by thinking that its ok. You are just a bad person.
We know people like you exist. Blizz knows it. Thats why they had to add the vote to kick option. Just for you and those like you. The majority of players have never been vote kicled for bad behavior.
I always thought the majority of it was from little kids but as you are showing it is not. Its a human flaw. Some people have it.
I’ll agree that LFD is very anti social and bad for communities, but at the same time, we still need to be able to find groups. Unless Blizzard is going to connect realms, then a small faction needs LFD to get groups. If they don’t want to provide LFD then they need to connect realms so at least we have the players to get groups with.
Network. Just leveled an alt to 70 within the last two days and a majority of the rep/dungeon gear runs I’ve ran since hitting 70 have been with the same players I frequently grouped with during the leveling process.
If you have a smooth run chat up and add players who play well to your friends list. I have quite literally had people tell me they choose me over other healers when they see my priest in LFM or chat spamming because we’ve had great runs before and they are familiar with the way I play. Are there better healers out there? Absolutely. But by being a familiar face and being associated with prior positive experiences people are much more likely to pick me over some unknown person.
If you are the type of person who thinks the only effort you need to put in is to constantly spam “LFG NEXUS” 4 times in a row that may be the reason you are having issues with the social aspect
I’ve had more interesting meetups in AV or other BGs with randoms from other servers than my own for the most part.
The whole community thing is a meme. Most people know others from disc/class forums and theory crafting stuff than being in game. The only people you probably know well outside of your guild/guild friends is your server idiots.
Exactly this. When a queue for a BG, most of the Alliance are from Bene, a few from Grobb, and the rest from random dead servers because queuing BGs is the only group content they can do.
It’s amazing when I see some random Alliance from 99% Horde servers because I wonder if all they do is log in and do BGs for a few hours then log out as they cannot dungeon or raid.
It’s not, OP. A server- specific lfd would be far more social. The hardest part is getting people to group. Once they’re in a group the social aspect comes a lot more naturally.