The majority of players want LFD included in WoTLK. This much we know for sure based on polling and widespread community sentiment.
Why aren’t we getting it?
Let’s be completely honest. Blizzard/Activision is making this decision because it makes them more money, especially in the short-term.
Not having LFD at all is a botter/goldfarmer/booster dream come true and they know this. Not only that, but it makes leveling harder which nets Blizz more boost sales. Wrath had LFD for half its life and removing it under the guise of “community” and “socializing” is the perfect way for Blizz to make this move and hide behind cover and come out smelling like a rose.
Not only that but they get a de-facto army of defenders in the loud minority of players that they know will defend this decision.
This is a savvy sales strategy but the reason I don’t respect it is because they are making the game worse and being dishonest about why.
Be honest Blizzard. Why did you make this decision? Can we see your polling reports?
Having LFD has no effect on those who want to form groups outside of using the system. You can still spam LFD to your hearts content and it will have no effect on those who want to spam chat for hours on end.
I personally don’t care, but also don’t think I can confirm or deny this bold claim.
Because some one decided that its bad for the game, but in the case of Wrath I don’t see how.
Explain how botters are going to utilize this? Botters would abuse LFD if it were in, because most characters can be easily scripted to AE spam the EZ mode dungeons down.
Uh… how exactly, explain because I don’t follow man.
I have seem this exact opposite perspective in the forums also.
I feel like… the loud minority are the groups who’re both opposed and want it… while the MAJORITY of us do not care.
Not seeing the benefit of removing LFD in terms of improving their $$$$$ flow to be honest man, I just don’t see it… Perhaps you have a better view on this?
I would love to see the “reference client” also but I suspect that’s on a long list of things that aren’t gonna happen.
We’ll, that’s simply not true. The system gives gold rewards. It gives emblems of frost and emblems of triumph. It is completely mandatory once it’s in.
How can you not see that no LFD = server transfers instead of rerolls, several transfers if you have multiple max level chars. And if you do want to level, Well buy some wow tokens and walk to SM and pay your gold to the legion of bots/farmers blizzard wants to stay subbed. OH and who could forget the boost. Oh and the DKs starting at 55 without a 55. That’s totally not a bot issue.
Biased polls given to players likely to vote a certain way. Players who don’t want lfd, or don’t care, aren’t freaking out on the forums. They’re not participating in those polls. Like usual the silent masses are the majority of the playerbase.
The irony is I think you’re probably right. But you’re not stating a fact, and those polls mean nothing.
Well you see…here is where they make money possibly.
For lower levels they make money on 2nd accounts. Even I tried this a month. it was on sale, I was bored…and I have spent $45 (think 45) on way worse things I had nothing to show for it next day. this got me a month long fun and interesting experiment.
I mean a good bar night for me is at least $30 in cab fare alone. when I Know I am drinking…I don’t even think about the merest possibility of using my car. It stays exactly where it needs to be. In the parking spot by my place lol.
If not tried…even a crap communal gear 58 boosty is quite handy in a dual box set up. Up at least around level 30.
MY BE hunter on mankrik…this was the only way she saw dungeons. Boosty 58 orc warrior took her on a tour of 30 or less dungeons. That BE hunter has nice gear for a 27. many shadowfang keep runs were “carried” out. get it…carried. I will show myself out lol.
Some would say be social. I was. It seems shadowfang is not on the FOTM dungeon list. No ad seen for it when there. And you can ask for group all day long. Getting a reply back…now there is the sticking point to that plan.
And 10/10 power level guidese say orcland is preferred for easier “power” level. So not many came to undead land when I was there. also factor in 6 months+ later…most had their be’s beyond tristfall/hillsblad.
So when /who showed a whopping 2 people in hillsblad region (my be hunter and the boosted orc) the orc was real useful for clearing out orange to red quests.
that mine for example south of the human farm area. I was level 24/25. Orange/red level 28’s there. fast spawners too. so the orc cleaned house…I got the “boss” mob for the quest dead…yay me!
Someone was arguing that doing BGs for out of season PvP wasn’t the same as farming badges in dungeon finder for non-current tier PvE gear.
Because nobody farms any of honor gear before jumping into arenas. Nah, they all rush to 80 and jump straight into arena with full quest greens, right?
Is Arena not the PvP equivalent to raiding? BGs to random dungeon finder? It made sense back in the old days, grind honor gear then play Arena for AP gear. Grind badges for gear, then raid for current tier.
That’s now, after they announced they wouldn’t be adding it and all the keyboard warriors have taken to the forums in protest.
If you had been watching for the last few years (especially before Classic was even an idea they considered), when people waxed nostalgic about those expansions, LFD was always considered a negative aspect.
yep. They want you to pay for 70 boost and want gold sellers/boosters to buy those boosts. LFD kills boosting and reduces the need for boost, therefore it was removed.