Unacceptable LFR Experience and 30-Minute Timeout Penalty

[Floweret-stormreaver]

The error message does say that.

[Lulzpally-grobbulus]

I dont think I’ve ever seen it. Just loading screen then right back to where I was. This just happened to me yesterday (for a 5man).

[Gallows-korialstrasz]

Across the top of your screen it should tell you that you can’t port in cause the team is in the middle of an encounter. Once it ends you can port in.

[Brakkarion-wyrmrest-accord]

In short, only thing that is unacceptable is that “players” like this exist. All of their reasons are just pointing out they don’t know how it works and they are angry at everyone else for their own incompetence. I deserve compensation for clicking this bait thread but we all know that isn’t going to happen.

[Kneeshooter-amanthul (Kneeshooter)]

I’ve always assumed that if you can’t enter the instance, its because the group is already in combat. I just keep trying until the fight finishes and then get in. That’s more preferable than leaving and earning a deserter.

[Gabitha-nagrand (Gabitha)]

Absolutely nothing that you put forth has anything to do with your issue or the out come of anything Blizzards automated debuff system did to you.

You choose to leave a group (which was not full) and was more than likely in a middle of a boss fight. Which means you can not port in while its going on. NOT BLIZZARDS fault and not a bug.

You left a group without killing at least one boss, which = deserters debuff which as you claim to be such a 20 year vet of WoW you know is going to happen. Yet again not Blizzards fault.

LFR groups are set to a max of 30, you clearly do not know this, again not Blizzards fault.

So just how much of your post is made up or just pure trolling?

[Sendryn-sentinels]

@Mowlaram-bladefist

Post this in the support forum where it might actually be read.

Support forum isn’t for feedback. OP just had no clue that LFR is flex and he left because he doesn’t know how the game works somehow after “over 20 years.”

@Lulzpally-grobbulus

Blizzard could easily add a UI element that says ‘fight in progress can not enter’

They do have this. You get it after you try to load in. If your loading screen is too long, then the error message is already gone from your screen.

@Lulzpally-grobbulus

They could also add some programming logic that detects when this happens, then messages said player when fight ends and they can enter.

This would take about 1 or 2 days to program and should be a basic feature.

I like the idea here, but let’s not pretend any of us knows how long it would actually take to implement.

[Twinksalot-azgalor]

Hello CHATGPT

[Foximusprimé-area-52]

It’s not his fault, it’s the system’s fault for giving him a queue popup when he couldn’t zone in, the system could easily detect if the group pulls before he accepts and rescind the popup, but it’s coded badly and doesn’t.

[Hadrimmdar-silvermoon (Hadrimmdar)]

anyone who’s been alive for 10000 years or more is someone I wouldn’t mess with

[Trustlvlfour-zuljin]

@Floweret-stormreaver

LFR can have 30 players and you were probably trying to teleport in during an encounter which the game tell you when you fail to transfer in.

This is your fault op.

To be fair, the vast majority of the playerbase do not know how to use the eye menu to teleport into an instance if the queue fails to auto-port you in due an in-progress encounter because someone with ADHD decided to pull early. It’s not like the game shows you these things. Although I do think this long term player should have already known that by now. So there is that I guess.

[Billdoor-draenor]

Twice I joined an LFR, couldn’t zone in because of combat. Finally got in, it was the last boss. Everyone was leaving so i left to, deserter debuff.

[Theodus-hyjal]

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[Pixypockets-medivh]

@Dunechka-garona

Sincerely,
Your Mom

I think if you had any hope of being taken seriously when posting your frustration it probably all went out the window with your signature.

[Bleish-kiljaeden]

@Saceria-tichondrius

You couldn’t teleport in because the group was in the middle of a fight.

Best you could have done was to send in chat to let you know when you can port in.

I don’t know if it works the same in LFR, but in LFD there’s an issue with this where if the group is fighting the last boss (and kill it) you don’t even get dungeon completion credit so you’re stuck with ~14 minutes of being unable to queue (plus the time already wasted waiting for that dungeon).