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

Juli-blackwater-raiders · August 23, 2019, 5:07am

Keep listening. The only addons they have a problem with are those that play the game for you. They specifically say addons that make the game easier to read are fine, which is what this is.

Rellik-silver-hand · August 23, 2019, 5:08am

But this isn’t… this auto invites for you and auto spams chat for you. That’s playing the game for you. O_o

Ohshiftson-area-52 · August 23, 2019, 5:08am

Nope.

We’re the “this existed in vanilla and has no negative impact at all, so get over it” types.

Piptak-wyrmrest-accord · August 23, 2019, 5:08am

It’s not very well hidden, 30 seconds poking in the interface is all it took me.

Somalion-eitrigg · August 23, 2019, 5:08am

You are really dense

Sunlight-chromaggus · August 23, 2019, 5:08am

Ðavyjones:

Does the add-on remove the need to communicate to clear the dungeon?
No.
Does the add-on send people into the dungeon?
No.
Does the add-on automatically replace people who suck with someone else?
**No. But the devil is in the details. If someone sucks, this addon makes finding someone much easier and makes the group less likely to help out said player be better because they can just queue up the old addon and get a new player without having to travel to a city to ask for a replacement. When people can be conveniently replaced they will be **.
Does the add-on pull from all servers?
No, but that’s not the issue, it’s that this addon lessens one players value on another due to the ease of replacement.
Will the add-on ruin social interactions?
Possibly. Since replacing people will be easier it will hurt them to a degree. Keep in mind that reputations were highly important in Vanilla and if someone was blacklisted for good reason and was spamming for a group, players could call said bad player out letting those unaware of bad behavior so they could make an informed decision about grouping with that player. Using this addon, circumvents that which could very well result in a worse social interaction.
Will the add-on kill sever communities?
No, communities will form regardless. The real question is how an addon like this will affect what the community becomes. And addons like this are the first step in how you get a community like we have in retail.

Hint: The answer to all of the questions is the same…
Not quite…

These are of course my opinions but that’s all any of this is in this thread. Ultimately the devs will decide if this addon is in the true spirit of what they are trying to capture with Classic.

Somalion-eitrigg · August 23, 2019, 5:09am

No it does not auto invite.
Read first then comment

Kazrak-illidan-279244 · August 23, 2019, 5:09am

Their was no auto invite in vanilla. There should be no auto invite in classic

Rellik-silver-hand · August 23, 2019, 5:09am

I’m sorry did something change since earlier today when the video clip instantly invited people and spammed chat?

If so then I retract what I’ve been saying.

Juli-blackwater-raiders · August 23, 2019, 5:09am

Then why are auto chat addons allowed and auto guild invites allowed, but not addons that do your rotation or fish for you?

It’s clear what “play the game for you” means. They dont want another decursive that does your dispelling for you.

Uniter-nordrassil · August 23, 2019, 5:10am

What is so wrong with trying the game out with #nochanges at first? Why does it need to be modified at launch, with a feature that for all intents and purposes does seem to mirror some aspects of retail wow LFG? There are lots of things in classic which you could compare to chats bad interface, but the totality of the construction is arguable the best game ever made.

Somalion-eitrigg · August 23, 2019, 5:10am

Nope the BfA version does that. The classic version does not.
The video is a cry for attention nothing more

Ðavyjones-tichondrius · August 23, 2019, 5:10am

So you want ALL chat add-ons banned then…
whats next Mail add-ons??? Auction House add-ons??? Outfitter???

Macros…

Studmuffyn-veknilash · August 23, 2019, 5:10am

but that does not stop communication IN the dungeon.

and how does it populate that list? and get the players?, from people looking for groups in the chat channels, the same as if you hit your macro, or typed LFM DM need dps

Rellik-silver-hand · August 23, 2019, 5:10am

Thank you for clarifying.

Ohshiftson-area-52 · August 23, 2019, 5:11am

Yes, there was. Stop spreading misinformation. Add-ons could parse “inv” whispers and send invites by typing a /invite [name] message into chat.

Kazrak-illidan-279244 · August 23, 2019, 5:11am

Why? Because I’d like a classic experience as close to the original as possible? Why do you insist on trying to **** up something that people have been trying to get for 10 years when you already have everything you want in retail. To me you just come across as an arrogant *****.

Aeresia-aerie-peak · August 23, 2019, 5:11am

That was just more fearmongering from the gullible people who thought that the addon in the video is the Classic version. What they didn’t seem to notice is that the person in question is playing on BFA at the time of testing, and that there’s a completely separate Classic version of the addon that, as has been clarified time and again, does not have this feature.

Rellik-silver-hand · August 23, 2019, 5:11am

No. But I don’t want a group finding addon that auto-invites and then spams chat for said group… however it seems this addon does not auto-invite after all, so all is well.

Ohshiftson-area-52 · August 23, 2019, 5:11am

The original had an add-on like this.