If people really do Rail against the piss poor example of LFG from TBC I don’t know what to say, they’re extremely “special”
No one even used that thing it was so bad.
Adding bad ideas to good ideas was what killed WoW
I should specifically say that good ideas which are a magnet for bad ideas aren’t necessarily good ideas, an automatic group maker has real potential for escalation
I can’t believe people are whining about addons.
Seriously if you don’t like an addon don’t use it, if others also don’t use it then it will be just a useless addon nobody uses.
If the addon is useful then it will be used (and there were many useful addons in classic that were widely used)
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There is a valid point in saying that LFG is a guild killer. It removes the need for friends to organize and depend on each other. One of the greatest things in classic is having to rely on others for many things in the game. LFG takes away that need. I would hope people could understand that community is what made vanilla special.
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That would be a separate problem. If you don’t want gearscore addons you limit the API in a way that doesn’t allow you to inspect people or limits what you can do when you do. Doesn’t mean you should block a bulletin board style addon because of some theoretical future in which a different type of addon is combined with it.
They actually just announced today there will be no classic armory, or at least no user profiles on one, so you can’t armory people. They can’t completely prevent a third party site from gathering data potentially, but it would never be able to be updated as accurately as the armory.
https://classic.wowhead.com/news=294498/no-armory-profile-page-support-at-wow-classic-launch
That is EXACTLY what it is!!! Working with others!!
THIS IS NOT A SYSTEM AUTOMATED THING!! Its a glorified CHAT channel filter!!
Can we stop with the blind posts please!
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I didn’t do about 1/2 my dungeons with my guild in vanilla and we pugged about half of MC after BWL came out just have bodies to do a few runs at a time to get TF’s. Pugging was huge in vanilla and it still didn’t kill community
this addon does nothing more then what you can do spamming trade
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Because if you allow/enable/promote the behavior that leads to not getting into guild’s, you start down the wrong social path anyway?
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This is what people are ignoring.
Pugging dungeons and raids was a big part of Classic, this addon makes that easier, how is that a bad thing ?
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I am sorry, I see how this is and how it works. I see problems down the road. Its like the welfare system. People get hooked on it and then depend on it. It does not go away it just gets worse, and more welfare is needed. This is how it starts.
The vanilla raid lockout and looting systems are already extremely anti-pug, the idea that nobody will make guilds to raid because it’s easier to find groups (mostly 5 man groups) doesn’t make much sense.
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Thats fine, I agree it doesnt make sense. That doesnt mean we need to give an inch to the things which contributed to the decline of the game.
Including stuff like this.
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really that’s your analogy ?
Epic facepalm
Sorry but this addon would have been very popular and used a lot in Classic.
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I hope you understand that the group forming portion of “community” isn’t doing anything to build a community.
Spamming LFM for days isn’t nearly as effective as running a 5 man for building a community.
This addon doesn’t even form the group. It allows people to show interest in forming groups. The communication is still required to accept people into the group.
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Being able to more easily find people to play with in a multiplayer game did not lead to the decline of the game.
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It absolutely did, but I’m fine disagreeing with you.
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It is used in retail now. What people are trying to get away from. Sure it would be popular and bring all the retail people to classic, but it would drive away us old hard core peeps. then the retail people would just make classic a new retail experience. Great!
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This is the disconnect. . This type of addon. . is NOT used in retail. . Retail has a system that puts people together and moves them to the instance. . It is bad and breaks the community. .
This is simply nothing more than standing around spamming LFG 1 more for VC
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If LFG killed your guild, your guild was weak to begin with. A guild is still going to have a higher success rate then a random pug group.
People want the classic experience. Pugging dungeons and raids was a huge part of that.
This addon allows that to be an easier process. There is nothing inherently against the ‘classic experience’ with this addon.
This addon merely makes it easier to find people to pug with, you still need to talk to them etc.
Sorry but your complaints against a addon that promotes more social interaction is insane.
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