I can see how that could be a issue in the future but I don’t really know if the fear of what it could become should halt it. I won’t lie I would rather farm or fish then wait in sw if my guildies and friends are not up for a dungeon.
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“Baddies” can become competent with help. They will always remain “baddies” if they never get any.
Yes, some people will be bad and wear it as a badge of honor with no interest in improving, those people will naturally be filtered out of groups by the community.
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It really doesn’t.
All it does is transfer what would be a lot of spam, and people turning off \world or \lfg chat channels and instead pushing that into an addon. The people who are claiming that standing in major cities and spamming groups in /2, are just the people that didn’t know that created channels were usable throughout the world.
This does nothing to change the “spirit of the game”, there were plenty, most likely the majority of people that hung out and did only PUG content throughout the entire expansion. This does nothing to change that.
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No… in other words you don’t add a tool for toxic people to be toxic.
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Any LFG addon is inviting trouble because even people that are against it will find themselves installing it for reasons.
Just keep this crap out so it doesn’t get normalized.
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“It doesn’t change the spirit of the game it just completely changes how you communicate with people and just push a button to join a group instead of advertising/finding people for a group”
-Random retail player
Sounds about right lol
Making/having QoL changes, changes the spirit of the game…that’s what the spirit of the game means. This is like saying “Well guild banks don’t change the spirit of the game it just makes it easier to store stuff in your guild”.
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Most people will prefer the same, like I said before, we all want the easiest path to our goals, it’s human. The problem is, retail has given us the easiest path that we wanted, but do you enjoy it as much as Vanilla/TBC?
I usually ask a friend to take over spamming if I want to do something else or fish in the city (great way to level fishing). Point is, you can still get everything you want, it’s just more manual.
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Don’t kid yourself. You’re at a disadvantage if you don’t have the addon. Either use it or be left in the dust when they invite someone else instead
Once again, it’s this exact mentality that killed WoW. People like you.
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Do you have an alt to like your posts? How quaint
Were you having trouble finding or forming groups this last go?
I think you guys are confused. My position is that I DON’T WANT TO USE THIS ADDON
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lol, all good.
Oh no, I completely understand. What you aren’t understanding is that because you don’t want it, but you are still advocating for it and ok with using it, that’s what kills games.
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Let’s not go around in circles, you’ve made this point before, to which I answered already
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While I don’t have a problem with a billboard type mod, I can see how an addon like this can create a lot of problems in the community. Imagine someone new coming into the game who doesn’t know about the addon. They might see the lack of spam in the chat and think the server is dead. Or they could start spamming chat for a group only to be sent angry whispers telling them to install the addon or reported for spamming. It just creates conflict and division in the community to solve a problem that doesn’t really exist. It’s an extra mod people need to install just to consolidate lfg messages which are already consolidated into trade chat. The people whom never played vanilla have nothing to worry about. Finding groups in chat is super easy.
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Nope, streamer dude and all other anti-LFG fanatics are 100% wrong.
The addon is perfectly fine and doesn’t break the spirit of vanilla/classic at all. It’s just a bulletin board that helps facilitate group creation which is not automated.
It’s also especially sad that a streamer that doesn’t have any issue finding pugs would waste his energy trying to make it harder for other people. If you’re mostly grouping with guildies and friends or people from your stream, why do you care how OTHER people find players to play with? Why does that affect you?
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/classiclfg is a great addon, download it and use it if you want, don’t if you don’t.
Also, having an army of fans supporting you is far less authentic as a classic experience than using a bulletin board to avoid having to spam chat as much.
For people worried, “but if they use it I have to too,” the addon in question has a setting in which you set a chat channel and it automatically advertises for you so people without the addon still know you’re making a group. You do not have to use the addon and are still made aware of groups being made by people using the addon.
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Yeah you answered with an answer advocating for the use of the addon? Wow great answer. “HEY GUYS I DON’T WANT THIS…” “BUT DON’T KID YOURSELF IT WILL PUT YOU BEHIND SO YOU BETTER GET IT” “BUT I DON’T WANT IT”.
The only person running in circles is you bud lol
How exactly does it work? Do you just flag yourself as LFG and those looking will see you on the board and whisper you?
Anyone with the addon can see your group listed in the addon, but it also has a feature where you set a chat channel to advertise and it automatically periodically sends your message to that chat channel so people without the addon still can see and join your group whether they use the addon or not.
edit: and people have to send you a tell and be invited to the group. The only slightly automated part is that if you request an invite and they send an invite I believe you can auto-accept the invite.
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