how so? you are still only doing dungeons, people get summoned to dungeons already, dps still are required to wait their turn, the only difference is people below max level will be able to dungeon because they will have more players to group with.
blizzard’s reason for removing it is because their core value is social experience, removing RDF doesn’t hinder the social experience of the game, allowing people to group with more players is enough to debunk that.
people already do this with battlegrounds and group browser w/ summons, except they are limited to less players to do so with for dungeons.
again people are already doing this now on wotlkc, RDF only allows you to play with more people.
yet wotlk still saw growth in subscribers post RDF. the same rate of growth in wotlk’s lifecycle as before RDF.
by the way, nobody actually talked at the battlemaster waiting for battlegrounds either like it was some social hangout. get real with yourself.
RDF doesn’t remove anybody’s ability to find and interact with other pvpers, neither does current PvP system.
RDF doesn’t add convenience anymore than group browser does, it just allows you to play with more people. people already take ports to dungeons, people already afk while waiting for a group to form.
RDF adds to the social aspect of the game, by introducing you to more players than what is available on your server. socialize away there is no limits with RDF. without RDF you’ll be lucky to find people to play with at all in group content on the majority of your alts playthroughs nowadays or even far into wotlk.
travelling isn’t a big part of the game, it’s the content, the pvp, the social experience that makes up the majority of it. nobody or system is stopping you or any player from walking from elwynn forest to silithus. travelling is already such a small part of the game with flying mounts, summoning stones, warlocks, mages. you’d think if travel was such a big value in the game they would remove all forms of quick travel, but here we are, teleport into battlegrounds, port from city to city, list goes on etc etc.
TBC ended with 11 million, wotlk ended with 12million, weird how they only grew 0.5 million subs considering those figures.
they retained the subs vanilla and tbc built up and added onto that throughout the whole lifecycle of WOTLK, that is a success. go look at cata’s plummet, that is a failure. they didn’t stop publicizing their subscriber numbers until mop.
weird how their subscribers were still rapidly rising at the same rate for a whole year after RDF came out compared to wotlk before RDF, on top of retaining the entirety of vanilla and tbc combined.
so why are you here? this is a wotlk forum are you mad about something you aren’t playing? or are you a true casual wotlker?
in your opinion.
i wouldn’t mind that, except they are giving incentives to tanks/healers for participating in group finder dungeons by giving them pets/mounts/gold/consumables, something that was never needed with RDF in wotlk.
so does talking to people on your server, you could find and meet more people to talk with by doing something more than just running dungeons in group browser if that was your aim in the game.
agree to disagree, i still see hard reserve loot groups, floods of gdkp advertisement, people being replaced after entering the group for a guildie or friend to take their spot after they were searching for a group for 20 minutes as a dps; RDF has options for removing bad actors from the group and dungeon, and replaces them with the next person in queue, fair system.
RDF doesn’t limit your ability to do that, some people get bored of doing dungeons, so dont do dungeons at all on the path to 70/80.
RDF doesn’t stop you from doing this within your own server either, you still have the option to seek those friendships and players to help you through content.
you would know what’s best for me based on your opinion? humorous.
The thing i can agree would be LFR there, but we aren’t talking LFR, stay on topic; you keep repeating this one tool destroyed your game but it does the same thing as group finder does, except with more players, more players = smaller world? if you say so.
me too, friends?
which RFD improves upon with the social aspect of the game, allowing you to play with more players and socialize with them.
dont leave yet, we still have cata classic to play after.
100%
after the changes so far i have 0% faith.
