unless you literally can’t type you are only stopping yourself from being social
rdf doesn’t stop you from saying hi. just because you think rdf “ruins” social interaction does not mean it can stop you
if you think rdf is going to eliminate you being social then you have bigger problems. it is up to you and no one but you to try and be social
if everyone ignores you, try again with the next party or your guild. it’s not like anyone in lfg does anything besides ask for a summon, say hi and gg at the end anyway
Thing is, people will take the path of least resistance. When you were forced to socialize to form groups, people had the choice between either socializing and doing the content, or not socializing, and not being able to do the content. With rdf, the requirement to socialize was removed, so naturally, people will just not socialize.
So rdf didnt “ruin” social interaction, it just removed it as a requirement to engage in the content.
there’s just a difference between wanting to be social and being forced to. the people who complain about rdf go on about how they “want” to socialize, but rdf shouldn’t stop them if they really want it.
yup. I’ve prodded several of these people for a logical justification for their stance. They have none!
And when pressed hard enough, the mask slips, and the truth comes out. They think they’re better than the other players, and that makes them entitled to the loot. They don’t want to share with the lessers.
Right, but the problem is that it takes two to tango, you can be a social butterfly all you like, but if nobody responds in the dungeon group, then its no dice. Also, the cross faction nature of it also kinda kills the drive to socialise, because the chances of you ever meeting these people again is close to nil, and theres no player driven cross realm gameplay (you cant manually group up cross realm) so even if you do make friends with the people, you literally cant do anything together
Just to note, I’m neither for nor against rdf, i dont do pve content anyway, but its an interesting debate topic.
true, but i feel as if that’s an issue in lfg too as well as modern day mmos. you say hi, they say hi, once it ends we all say gg. the only added interactions are meeting stones and whatever the heck you talk about when waiting for a tank, which is very little.
i can understand a realm-only type of rdf system then. but if basic social interactions with no real strings attached are what anti-rdfers want so bad, then rdf won’t stop that. but i do see your point.
indeed
having social interactions (with the potential chance of having new friends because they’re in your server which i can understand) and talking to people within your lfg group is what anti-rdfers seem to define it
from my point of view randoms doesn’t play dungeons to be social anyway! if you’re joining with your guild they can be social since they’re your guild! and they can be on discord to speak while playing But randoms in dungeons almost never say anything and on Faerlina there are a lot of people who doesn’t even speak english ><
but the point is “RDF” is called random dungeon finder, “it’s a tool to help randoms to do dungeons”, it’s not called “afk in dungeon to type in chat”
I lost my arms in WW1, thanks for reminding me of the pain. I’m lucky enough to have befriended a small capuchin monkey though, who I then trained to spam the 1 key which is my revenge ability.
I do. It’s the only reason I bothered coming back was becuase of the awesome guildies I had since classic. Otherwise this game feels like a glorified skinner box, in some areas, at any rate.
You seem to be on the money about the sense of a community that driven to min/max the heck out of the game though. It’s sad. I really miss the rp events on my realm of Grobbulus.