Right but does it, or does it not, fragment the ‘Looking for’ Community, and make it easier to get groups without engaging in the social fabric of Guild’s and such?
That’s are twisted interpretation of what Blizzard actually said. I’d go find the quote but don’t really feel like it. They said they’d break functionality that is not in the spirit of vanilla.
That doesn’t mean they will break LFG addons. Even though that’s the first thing people point to when they read what Blizzard says.
If Blizz decides it violates their Classic policies, they’ll break it.
They’ve already stated they won’t have their own LFG.
This is the most accurate thing I have read, so far about the subject. Unfortunately the masses will choose convenience over community every time. Most these people have no social skills to create a group and communicate with others. They need these addons to replace their lack of humanity.
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which this one does not do. Just gives you another equivalent to a private channel to talk to people and form groups.
Sorry but the complaints against this are from people who obviously have never played classic they only played on Pirate servers and want to make Classic like that instead of truly like classic.
If this addon existed in Classic I know exactly 0 people that would not have used it.
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I would argue that no, it does not, particularly because this addon has a feature that sends messages to chat channels so people without the addon also see you making a group.
It doesn’t do anything to the “social fabric” of the game that advertising for pugs in a chat channel doesn’t do. You won’t want to be in a guild any more or less than you would have in vanilla.
Right? If we are going to hold to Vanilla, I want macros that can play the game for me!
That’s ok. We don’t need to agree. It’s all about what Blizzard wants.
They haven’t touched the API functions that would allow this. They haven’t updated any policies to make such an addon disallowed.
While I see your point I do not 100% agree with it. I also do not agree that retail is a complete lost cause. Am I more excited for Classic than retail? Well, I have not played retail since December. . so yea. . 
If our community grows and prospers there will be things that will be brought up as things that need to be fixed. We do have to be honest and admit that Vanilla is not a balanced or even completely working game. Good yes. . could be greater? Yes, and some would argue it had.
New ideas, new suggestions will rise. But we can’t be so closed-minded or afraid of change that we do not entertain thinking about new possibilities. Do we accept them point-blank? No. that gets us into game systems that the community. . us. . asked for only to find out too late that it was a bad thing.
You see. We are not very good as a collective of seeing the bigger picture. We tend to focus in on our own little world and then others agree with us till we have (insert the thing you think broke wow here)
You could already skip being in a guild by just spamming chat that you were looking for a group and buying loot runs.
spirit = / = ToS
you cant really force people into play in a specific way
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Going into MC without Decursive one button priority decursing and Healbot picking spell ranks for me is not my classic!
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crosspost from addons thread
will do my best to be as loud as possible to make that happen
I guess I have reached my max number of likes today. Here is a hand written one: I liked your post
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You could, but in doing so, in a way that is not hidden in an addon, you likely are going to form relationships on your server anyway.
As long it doesnt introduce any ‘do you have this? we cannot group’ kind of divide, then thats what I’m most concerned with. Fragmentation.
With the news about Server pops though, I’m not sure I’m concerned regardless, these places are going to be FULL.
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We are not aiming to recreate the past. I can’t get back that same feeling and life experience I had back then. . To much time has slipped past.
I am looking to re-experience the content and game systems I love in a new and fresh time and way.
We can’t go back.
I mean how do they think I topped the healing charts? I just had the macro pick who to heal for me.
ya I never posted in that thread cause … well I used questhelper in classic the whole time I leveled. It was the most common addon used I think.
Let’s be clear.
THEIR policies.
Not yours.
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