If you don’t like LFD, Mythic is there for you. We can have both and we do.
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Well, that’s why we’re all different. There’s people like you and i admire that demeanor, that will start small talk with strangers and that’s awesome and there’s a lot of people like me that will roll their eyes as soon as someone starts talking to them for no reason. That changes the second we share a common goal but the content in LFD and LFR is so mind numbingly easy i don’t feel there’s a need to type words in the chat box, i just want to get it over with so i can level.
The difference is stark when it comes to my guild and friends and i’ve been playing this thing since week one and it’s not like i changed along the way, it’s just that interaction is not encouraged by these systems, try making small talk to a new yorker and the vast majority of times you’ll get stared at in confusion and that’s because we’re raised and conditioned to not give a toss about people we’re probably never going to meet ever again.
By what metric are you measuring “Server Communities”?
This trope is nonsense. The end goal is to make raiding inaccessible to a segment of the playerbase. There is no other way to view the REMOVAL of QoL improvements. The only benefit is to the FEELINGS of a few hundred people.
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Here’s to hoping they give it a shot some day. In my view, maintaining the old content should be a MANDATORY part of any MMO dev’s job. You pay for the entire game, not just the latest patch’s content. They mess up the balancing for 99.9% of the game’s content in favor of the newest .1%- this is just poor design. There is no reason it needs to be this way. Imagine if purchasing DLC for a single player game made the original content harder to access on subsequent playthroughs- people would throw a fit, and rightfully so. Every other MMO I have played has not had an issue with this sort of thing. WoW is unique in this way. I am rather sad I will probably not be able to access most of its content, and the amount of it is remarkable compared to anything else on the market. It seems like they’re flushing what could be quality content down the drain because there is no incentive or demand for them to maintain it. I’m not sure if the blame lies on Blizz, the players, or somewhere in between, because I don’t see many people overly concerned with this.
it’s funny I actually met a group of cool people while using the LFG tool. Kept in touch even outside of wow. Of course this was during cataclysm.
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I pay for old content to be old content and not to be messed with.
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Group finder itself doesn’t affect server communities in literally anyway at all. It’s the LFD, LFR, and primarily the cross server functionality.
A browser for groups has absolutely no impact.
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Explain what you mean by this. Not messed with how, exactly? You mean not maintained, so that they’re broken at the levels they were once intended to be enjoyed at? Why would you blatantly want access to less content? Please explain, because this just seems like you’re giving Blizz an excuse to abandon 99% of the content in their game. If that were the case, I’d have to call it (please forgive me) cuckery.
I run old dungeons and old raids and farm transmog and profession mats in old areas. I don’t WANT them updated so all that stuff is harder to do.
I like new areas to explore and new areas to play in. I don’t want to go back to old content and struggle, I have done that already for the most when it WAS current.
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I’m only asking for them to be balanced and relevant at the levels they were originally intended to be played at. If you wanna go back say, 10, 20, 30 levels later to farm gear, go ahead! But “I wanna farm barbie dressup gear” is not an excuse for them to let old content decay.
This is a horrible idea that would cost them what few players remain.
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You are asking them to spend a whole bunch of time and energy needlessly. You are getting classic go play there if you want the game to be ‘balanced’ and relevant at the levels they were originally intended to be or I guess you can ask but I sure the heck ain’t paying them if all they give me is old content rehashed. Been there, done that already.
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OP, you’re on tichondrius
Without it, you’d be fine, but people on the vast majority of med/small servers wouldn’t be able to find groups.
So, no. Group finder doesn’t need to go.
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So you only play this game to sit in a capital city, queue for content, go and mindlessly do it without interacting with anyone then log off?
I’m sorry but that’s absurd for a MMO.
Being able to queue from anywhere means I can go out and do stuff. You’re the one who wants to sit in the capital all day while looking for a tank. You want that ball and chain, I want freedom.
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No, the idea that we can only have one version of the game is what needs to go.
We need to start advocating for separate servers that have their own rulesets(aka, pristine realms).
Nah, im not about the classic life anymore. If you want to sit in general or trade chat and build a group do it. That’s what classic is there for.
I’m in retail as it is for a reason, I enjoy the QoL improvements.
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So then why not fill your dungeons with 4 npcs or your lfr with 24 npcs? It would be the same and instant queue?
“Classic” doesn’t address the problems I’m talking about. I’m actually not even interested in classic. And even if classic were the solution, what about the content of every single expansion after classic? It’s not like having cap characters is even an accomplishment, and it’s current not even fun or meaningful to get them there.
There are countless other MMOs that do not have these problems. This is unique to WoW. This is the only game I’ve found where the community actively defends content becoming irrelevant. This is why new subs are declining. If the old content is not maintained, then all of the “time and energy” spent on it originally is wasted, contrary to them “needlessly wasting” time on maintaining it- which pales in comparison to the time they put into actually creating it in the first place. What is their justification for a subscription fee if they don’t want to put the effort and maintenance into keeping their old content functioning?
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They didn’t have a proactive way to deal with server communities. Perhaps in the future that will change for Classic, but it’s already baked into the existence of WoW.
In addition, you have to realize the amount of money that digital transactions add to the bottom line for them.