The channel? It’s great when I don’t have a full guild group. I have the booster and boostees ignored for the most part, so I see lots of groups going. (And given how often I’ve whispered only to be told they got someone, many are going.)
The Dungeon Finder cross-realm feature added in Wrath? Still terrible. So immensely glad they didn’t add that, and even made sure auto-group-invite wasn’t a thing addons could do.
Who? I don’t rely on other people to think (or comment) for me. You didn’t even say what his position on this was, so he’s irrelevant here. If he’s talking about LFG … um … :golf-clap?: I’m sure he’ll keep “meeting that ten minute mark” as long as there are enough people watching, liking, subscribing, “or whatever for a while”.
“Just a tool,” isn’t a helpful description. LFG certainly isn’t just a UI tool.
I’m not trying to (nor interested in) just arguing this for the point of arguing. I only asked about other things to get a sense of what sorts of things you prefer about Retail.
In any case, finding things we prefer about Retail and why is an interesting side effect of Classic.
Um… either you do not know what LFG is or you are lying…
LFG is just a UI tool that is a better version of chat spam, it behaves functionally exactly the same, someone has to make a post to attract people to the group saying what they are doing and what they are looking for just like in chat.
people who are looking for groups can scan through the postings(chat or LFG and apply to the group) exactly the same as with chat as LFG.
The leader will see applications and gets basic information about them class+level and whatever note they put with application and is given the chance to respond and ask further questions or just invite/reject. exactly the same as we currently have.
The only difference is that LFG makes it so that its all in a clean non spamming chat and groups are searchable, pure UI improvement.
Either you are a troll or you really do not understand what UI means… (it stands for user interface btw)
So switching from a chat box to a bulletin board with all the same behavior but without the spam and a few extra INTERFACE tools like a search bar is a UI change.
when you change how your character plays in the game with something like a piece of gear that scales so it never needs to be replaces or activly improves the character by increasing the amount of xp they get it is not a UI change it is a gameplay change…
see the difference, one affects how you interact with the client and the other affects how your character plays the game.
This is exactly how the TBC LFG tool functioned. The way I remember using it was to quickly assemble 3 random people interested in the same dungeon, but then afterwards I would still spam chat channels for filling specific roles. The party leader was still actively involved in determining the group back then, the LFG interface just made it easier to get things moving.
