Here is the LFG Addon in action! Much worse than you thought

[Suu-argent-dawn]

Well the first thing I ask myself here, is “does this change the game?”

We used one in TBC, and ultimately I didn’t feel it was any different from normal since groups would be organized after anyway. This opens the same subjective answer to LFG, of course.

So the question here, is “What’s the difference between guild auto-invite and dungeon auto-invite?”

I’d say, again, it comes to how it changes the game. A guild leader already knows who they’re inviting, what spec they (probably) are, etc…whereas a leveling dungeon is a possibility to meet new people.

Summary: Guild auto-invite seems to be OK in my book because it is not bypassing any steps you’d take normally, whereas LFG does.

And so, updating the list (that is in no way official, I’m just throwing in whatever makes sense off the top of my head.)

• Things that automate player actions.
• Things that affect more than 1 player.
• Things that change the game by bypassing an innate core element. (more efficient, but missing something.)

That 3rd one is a bit wordy…

Again, you provided a good example.

Just to clarify, in the next update before classic release the auto invite is gone and only available for custom groups, not dungeons groups anymore. I put it in with the intention for big groups of people to do pvp for example. It just doesn’t make sense to use it for dungeons as you might end up with a group of 5 dps or healers.

On the other note, having guidelines for addon development doesn’t make sense. You need hard rules which is implemented in the ingame API. The question you should answer is, should addons be allowed to invite people to the group, not in which scenario it is fine or not.