LFG has been ruining this game since its implementation. Go check out when subscription started to plummet, it coincides with when LFG was implemented, right at the end of WotLK, and LFR later just came to put a nail into this game coffin.
WoW is a MMO, not an arcade game. Want to do some group content? Great! Go TALK to people, socialize, make friends, this is a social game after all.
“Go play classic” you may say. Although classic nails the correct design philosophy this game should have, it is a 15 years old game, with 15 years old mechanics and 15 years old gameplay. I want a modern MMO, built with modern graphics and gameplay mechanics, but a MMO, not this arcady mobile like thing WoW has turned into.
It’s not LFG and LFR that ruined the game it’s the streaming community and selling services groups that ruined those two options.
Besides running on some trolls in both features it was same like it was 15 years ago. You just had to wait another hour to replace one player if you kick him.
Any quality of life improvements in game is welcome and these two features you complain about are core of every MMO now.
Remove that and you will see what it means loosing players. You think I wanna spam in chat LFM for this and this? No thank you!!
You’ll have to do more than just remove LFG/LFR. The community needs to be rebuilt. Sure, some of that is on the players but the way the servers are set up now, coupled with the lower population, don’t make it easy.
Cluster servers together into maybe 10 servers at most and eliminate sharding. Then you can remove LFG/LFR. But not until then.
Correlation does not mean causation even if this was true. It totally doesn’t have to do with how cata was received (badly), or developer attitude towards players (condescending) that drove players away.
Massive multiplayer online can be anything and it means there are many players playing online .
What they are playing ? - irrelevant
What they are doing ? - irrelevant
Remove that and you will se what it means loosing players. You think I wanna spam in chat LFM for this and this? No thank you!!
I did not say remove Group Finder, I said remove LFG and LFR, the automated process of finding you a group and teleporting you to the instance. Group Finder is totally fine.
The thing you gotta remember about general discussion is that it’s overwhelmingly solo players who think they don’t have time to invest in getting better at the game. These types of players who refuse to try to improves their own play are the primary sector served by LFR/LFD and as such will be staunchly opposed to its removal.
I’m utilizing Time Walking dungeons this week to level some of my level 50 characters. Trying to level through Shadowlands using threads of fate is a total nightmare and is a slog.
I would prefer to not have to spend two hours forming a group, travelling through old zones just to get to said dungeon.
Thankfully it’s a moot point, it’s never going to change.
To all of you saying correlation isn’t causation. Remember that when there is causation there will be correlation too. I mentioned this just to show that the correlation is there, but my argument goes beyond just mentioning this correlation.
I hope you’re on a big server with a healthy population otherwise, if you want to content you are crap out of luck! sucks to be you! just pay us $$$$$$$$$$ to transfer off the server everyone else left!
People forget the content controlling cartels that existed in BC back in the day… it was not fun. So not fun that Blizz is introducing a group finder into BC Classic…
