Whatâs that difference in purpose? The majority of the reasoning I see here on the forums for dungeon finderâs importance is:
- I donât want to spend so much time looking for groups
- I canât 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 itâs not feasible to form groups
Does Retailâs dungeon finder not serve exactly these purposes?
I disagree, with caveats. When weâre talking about people who will quit playing Classic if Wrath doesnât launch with dungeon finder, the feature is certainly needed for them to enjoy the content.
Iâll say again that Iâm not referring to everyone who wants dungeon finder. Iâm specifically referring to the people who value the feature more than the content itself.
I really hope they do. Theyâve 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 thatâs 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.
Youâre very right about that, and I think many of us can agree on it regardless of which side of this conversation weâre on. Whatâs puzzling to me, though, is that instead of people demanding that Blizzard start to take action and guide the playerbase towards more wholesome gameplay, theyâre looking at it as a lost cause.
Itâs frustrating to me that my concerns with dungeon finderâs effect on cooperation and communication in the game are almost never met with anything but âThereâs no community anyway, look at boosting, look at LFG spamâ. Some of these things can be fixed!
You certainly canât 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 theyâre 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.