RDF (LFG Tool)

How is us saying retail sucks -and you saying go play retail any type of solution, not seeing the logic?

Nope I already re-rolled once from my main off retail, not going to do it a third time due to blizzard greed and mismanagement. (plus being a low server I started alts to supply prof items already, not re-leveling them either).

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You’re not seeing the logic because you’re ignoring it. Not all of the people who want dungeon finder, mind you, but some of the people here say that it’s the pivotal part of the experience that they wanted and everything else is secondary. And for people who have that mentality, there is no other logical answer than to just play Retail. It has the thing they NEED, and they should stop wasting time with the thing that doesn’t fulfill their needs.

I’m not addressing you specifically, or even most of the people who want dungeon finder. Just the ones who insist that the game is meritless without it.

I mean, that’s your choice. It is an option. Blizzard has horribly mismanaged the population and faction balance situations, but that’s just the reality we live in at the moment. You can work around it and have a good experience playing the game, keep playing normally and have a bad experience with the game, or just quit. :man_shrugging:

I think the blame is on Blizzard in these situations, but it doesn’t change the fact that this game is only guaranteed to be live and current one last time. All that needs to be done is to weigh the options according to how important it is for you to be able to experience this content again.

you think me paying for and playing something I *and others, think sucks is a solution really, ya not seeing the logic??

See I picked another choice, and that is to give my outrage\feedback on the forums with others, not like I’m running dungeons that much, so I have the spare time, just running around farming leather.

I’ve explicitly stated that I’m not specifically referring to you. I don’t know if there’s a way to spoonfeed that concept to you any more than I already have, but it’s probably not something I care to waste my time on. If you can’t read, it doesn’t seem like a forum is the place where you should be having discussion about these issues. :rofl:

Oh, so your problem is fixed now?

then how about not telling it to anyone, it’s bad logic, hay you don’t want this pizza you want this salad really…

threads and post about RDF stop yet?

Would you mind quoting for me any of my posts where I said anything about store mounts and boosts?

I’m the one who said what you are being accused of lol. So Bloom is Blooddrunk (exact same passive aggressive troll style). Blooms main is someone who does retail arena most likely (since that’s where he started). Everyone thought it was someone named demoniclilly but not really any way to prove it 100 percent.

Btw I always enjoy when someone links that thread of bloom getting destroyed.

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See:

Chaospower: “Bloom wants store mounts and boosts.”
Aurumai: “Did he say that?”
Dumbcake: “I’mma say yes.”

They know a majority of the community wants it. However, they don’t so they are right and we are wrong until their rightness blows up in their face, and then they will “listen to us” (after people start leaving) and give LFD/RDF to us. That is their MO.

If they do it, however. I’m quitting. Yeah, I want LFD/RDF but the second they start showing the same mentality the retail devs have I’m gone. The game is done for. They don’t want LFD/RDF in the game they better stick to their guns and go down with the ship.

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First off, no. It doesn’t. Retail RFD is different from Wrath. Mechanically it’s a subtle difference but in the purpose it serves it’s a world of difference.

“Need” is not the right word. Retail has almost nothing I want and the garbage is have to put up with for the bits I do enjoy is not enough. Of Blizzard announces a cohesive plan to help alleviate the problems with low population and faction imbalanced servers before Wrath launches and is clear on what they’re going to do about LFG I might play.

But if there’s no improvement and no communication then I’m going to want to keep my money more than I’m going to want to retread the nostalgia grounds of northrend with classic talents intact.

I have never seen anyone articulate that.

What would be more accurate would be to say that a lot of people feel running dungeons is a key part of the experience. And LFD is a tool that allows them to do so.

Just go play retail is still a fantastically stupid statement as noone says running dungeons regardless of any gameplay beyond that is all that matters.

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I for one am not about to sort through all 4000+ of the guys posts. And he says anything to get a rise out of whoever. So unless you want to go through his thousands of posts I’m going to call it plausible.

Didn’t seem to anti blizzard boost in this thread.

For some people, TBC starts at 58.

In conclusion, this game is for many people. Luckily, the boost is a choice, and if it’s not for you, you simply do not have to buy it.

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There’s a bloom post for everything. Thanks for the legwork.

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But see the thing is it did gel well with wrath. I also love how people go on about what is and isn’t classic as if classic is this pure and holy experience, but if you actually look at how classic is you see it’s turned into degenerate gameplay in so many ways.

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What’s that difference in purpose? The majority of the reasoning I see here on the forums for dungeon finder’s importance is:

  • I don’t want to spend so much time looking for groups
  • I can’t spend so much time looking for groups
  • I just want to level my alts in dungeons and dungeon finder makes that simple
  • My realm is dead and it’s not feasible to form groups

Does Retail’s dungeon finder not serve exactly these purposes?

I disagree, with caveats. When we’re talking about people who will quit playing Classic if Wrath doesn’t launch with dungeon finder, the feature is certainly needed for them to enjoy the content.

I’ll say again that I’m not referring to everyone who wants dungeon finder. I’m specifically referring to the people who value the feature more than the content itself.

I really hope they do. They’ve bitterly mishandled population distribution, not only by turning a blind eye to it but even encouraging horrendous imbalance. I wish people were more concerned with that than thanking that dungeon finder will fix all of the problems this has created.

I might be misunderstanding you, but I take this statement to mean that dungeon finder was a key part of the Wrath experience. And if that’s what you mean, I strongly disagree! Things did get to that point, but only after we had played through 75% of the raid content and more than half of the life of the expansion.

You’re very right about that, and I think many of us can agree on it regardless of which side of this conversation we’re on. What’s puzzling to me, though, is that instead of people demanding that Blizzard start to take action and guide the playerbase towards more wholesome gameplay, they’re looking at it as a lost cause.

It’s frustrating to me that my concerns with dungeon finder’s effect on cooperation and communication in the game are almost never met with anything but “There’s no community anyway, look at boosting, look at LFG spam”. Some of these things can be fixed!

You certainly can’t artificially generate wholesome communication on command, you guys got me there, but the reasons that many of you cite for wholesomeness being a lost cause are absolutely not set in stone. A lot of damage has already been done, but they’re going to be breaking dungeon carries in Wrath, which is an enormous step in the right direction and should have a very tangible effect on the experience for all of us running dungeons.

The next things we should focus on them fixing are population distribution and faction imbalance. At the very damn least, those things seem like topics that almost all of us probably agree on and I really wish people discussed those issues more rather than turning to a short-term bandaid fix to them.

And I know that a lot of the people asking for dungeon finder want it for personal reasons, not because they perceive that it will fix these issues. I only say it because the idea that it will mitigate these problems is the primary argument for most of the people herre.

I understand rdf was only in wrath for part of it but I think it was a welcome addition once it was added. I LOVE the rdf, it single handedly got me into pve content, got me into tanking, which lead me to start raiding. Anyone who says it destroys social interaction, well it had the complete opposite impact for me.

As for my second point, I say that mostly because people who are against rdf always talk about the spirit of classic, but from how things have gone in classic up to this point I don’t know if a lot of people even want a lot of that nowadays. They seem to go out of their way in a lot of cases to avoid some of that “classic” stuff now.

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As someone who started playing WoW a couple months before 3.3, dungeon finder WAS a key part of my WotLK experience.

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That’s great for Wrath, but we’ll be playing Classic Wrath.

And you want to encourage more degenerate gameplay by adding in LFD?