When they said “we’re looking at adapting the retail lfg tool instead of providing RDF” I thought, hey, fine. That would do the trick. If I can see that Group A is looking for Nexus, Group B is looking for Utgarde, and I can click/signup as DPS on each, and the leader will see “Oh, this DPS just signed up, accept/decline” that would be fine. We could still play the game while getting the group together, instead of sitting in Dal, looking at a chat window, trying to figure something out.
That’s not what they did.
They simply made a whisper button. So, we STILL need to troll through chat to find groups, even though the tool (both originally, and as pitched as adapted for Classic) was meant to make group finding easier - without such reliance on chat.
Blizzard, my dears, please - just listen. This isn’t what we want. You’re not adding anything with this tool as-is, it just makes the current Bulletin Board addon a more “official” looking one in-game. We only use BB because it’s marginally better than using chat alone - but I’ve never seen anyone say “I love BB”. We want something better. Every content creator that has reported on the tool says it’s nowhere near as good as RDF. The vast majority of Wrath die-hards want RDF (even if just implemented later in the game cycle). If you don’t want us teleporting, fine, but let us still group through it. Or give us the full retail version, where we don’t need to whisper with a macro anymore. It’s pointless tedium.
The whole “you think you do but you don’t” was not an invitation to remove all fun and introduce only difficulty into the game. It was us telling you what we wanted, and you thinking you knew better. This is exactly the same thing. I’ve not seen any poll or any evidence that indicates the Classic playerbase does not want RDF. Every single bit of data I’ve seen says a majority of Classic players wants RDF. Nobody wants to sit in a city, wasting an hour in chat to run a 10-min heroic. That’s not fun. That’s not recreating the game as it was. That’s not good design.
Please, prove you care, and do something about this tool. As-is, it’s just pointless. People may use it, but it requires improvement at the very, very least. Stop trying to tell us that you know better what this community wants, especially when the community is telling you to do something different.