I played back then, and while people certainly complained about getting bad groups, I don’t remember people complaining about RDF itself.
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Well, I mean, we DO have automated cars today…
Don’t most people have at least some level of automation with their cars nowadays. I mean, sure mine is pretty basic, I have to turn on cruise control first, but then it handles turning, staying in lane, stopping starting in traffic, etc. But I have friends who’s cars even handle in city driving and stopping at stoplights etc.
Perhaps I should have said “autonomous.”
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You mean like Tesla’s that can pull out of a parking spot and pick you up at the front of the store?
I disagree
Many people will quit if RDF is in because they will play single player in a MMO and not establish any in game connections.
Quit? Those people had no intensions on playing WotLK.
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Yes, this is a reasonable compromise. The mega servers probably wouldn’t even have to go cross server, which is where most of us play.
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As many people often say to those who want RDF: Goodbye.
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Bring us a quality group finder tool and I will use it and enjoy it. Keep the one we got and no thank you…
Its something that probably should have been completed BEFORE boasting about it and leaving us in a lurch without RDF.
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People keep citing the lack of accountability for cross-realm groups as being a huge drawback to the RDF. Okay. I did not think it was completely unmanageable back in the day, but I recognize that my experiences may have been uncommon. There are two very different things that Blizzard can do to alleviate this. Server-locked RDF. All the joys of automated matchmaking but if anyone “ninjaloots” or is an otherwise unpleasant person, you can /whisper them, call them out in trade, report them to their guild leader, block/ignore them so that you never risk grouping with them again, etc. etc. etc. This is all relatively straightforward and within Blizzard’s technological capabilities. But for some reason or other this is completely off the table. Oh well.
Option two, add in accountability. Open the cross-realm floodgates. Let anyone join a group (maybe not a raid) with anyone regardless of server. Heathen-Whitemane ditched out on a dungeon group right before the last boss and you’re on Grobbulus? Call him out. Send him a strongly worded in-game letter. Once again, not outside of Blizzard’s capabilities.
Watch everybody, in a minute he’ll claim some untrue historically inaccurate junk and then not reply when called out with facts on it.
Knew it…
EQ / UO / Shadowbane / FFXI / SWG / AC / AC2 / DAOC / Anarchy Online / Lineage
There is soooooo many mmorpgs even now that are hardcore compared to WoW.
The design philosophy behind world of warcraft was to be “the casual gamers mmorpg” an accessible game for gamers from all walks of life.
this is some weird kind of flex…
I’ve easily paid over $35,000 to blizzard in like the past 20 years… between subscriptions, player services, collectibles, physical collectors editions, multiple accounts, online blizzcon passes etc…
i’m not sitting here saying, i paid x amount of dollars give rdf.
I’m just saying give us an authentic wrath experience please.
Is my claim more valid because i’ve spent exponentially more than you over the years… No of course it isnt, don’t be ridiculous.
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