Nope – pro-LFD has failed to do that. That’s why Blizzard hasn’t gone back on their decision.
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Because you can’t spend every moment online in a dungeon? Do something else then. I’ve done plenty of content on an alt that I started in P5. I’m even leveling a warlock right now and I’ve been to deadmines, stockades, gnomer, SM, Uldaman, ZF, and ST, only leading the party myself once. I just post up in the LFG tool and get invited while I’m running around questing.
People are just mad that if you could spend every minute of playtime in a dungeon, they could progress their character faster, and they dont have the automated tool to make dungeon groups happen for them.
“Oh let’s see. I need 150 badges for the weapon, and if I get 4 badges per heroic, I need to run 38 heroics to get the gear. They need RDF so I can just afk my way through 38 heroics”
Instead of RDF, why not ask for a way to earn badges in solo content, like if one of the dailies on the isle guaranteed a badge or two. Find other ways to solve the problem instead of relying on RDF to find content for you.
Because I don’t enjoy solo content. And because my own anecdotal ability (or lack thereof) to make groups doesn’t mean the reality of most people’s struggles stops existing. All I would like to see is more and more people having fun and playing together, and whichever tools are needed to achieve that.
well if the only way you can have fun in this game is to run 5 man dungeons with an automated group finder, just roll a tank. You can do all the 5 mans you want. Raids will be harder for you to find groups for, but you can run 5 mans all day.
Adding RDF means the most efficient use of everyones time, all the time, is to use RDF. Leveling a character, use RDF
Gearing out an max level character, use RDF
Any time you want to progress your character, just hit RDF and watch netflix until the queue pops. Actually, you can probably keep watching netflix while running the dungeon too.
Hell, a little into the expansion they added the tomes you could send to alts so they could fly in Northrend right at 68. The devs back then cared about one thing: fun. And accessibility leads to fun. It was an expansion where they eliminated most of the tedious, boring wastes of time. Where they made content available to everyone. The process of getting to the fun shouldn’t be a frustrating one. These are the most notable design philosophies of Wrath.
And it’s those design philosophies 2022 Blizzard are abandoning in Wrath Classic. And for what? Your guess is as good as mine.
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Every character you make once you hit 70 should have an option to start at level 70. Let everyone have every class as a max level alt. Classic servers are accelerated in timing and once the classic era ends, the characters are gone. People are here to play wotlk, so just let everyone play in northrend.
Thats how it is with ANY game community. Trash is everywhere.
WoW was fun as hell back then. RDF made it so that if you were leveling alts, you could easily just group up and burn dungeons. CWF Tome made it easier and more fun to level alts in Northrend.
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Pro LFD cant do anything but ask nicely. Thats their only real option save organizing a massive walk out. Its not like they have a real case and they cant even ask nicely so yeah, not a surprise its not coming.
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Does anyone know how to ignore people who’ve set their profiles as hidden? Cant ignore notorious trolls because of that 
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i ran people thru stocks, dm, sfk, rfk, rfd, gnomer, sm, ulda, zf and sunken temple. when i was gonna do a gnomer run, i would request they join my discord so instant comms would lessen likelihood of deaths/confusion. discord is max socialization. more than half of them, getting a free run, would refuse to go on discord, even if they didnt need a microphone, just the ability to hear my instructions/guidance.
sounds like a waste of time so no
Lol, nice wrong generalization.
Its bad because people want to spend 30-40 minutes forming and traveling to a dungeon that will take 10 minutes to finish.
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Blizz really missed the boat on this one. Rather than listen two a few rants on forums, they should’ve polled their subs in an email. I bet the results would’ve been much different.
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It doesnt add anything? How about content being consumed vs not being consumed.
Hell, rfc actually being done by alliance could be considered new content. Something that a very small percentage would have even thought about trying.
Rdf opens up the game to a large amount of players. The auto teleport is a minor issue that is no different than meeting stones or lock summons and is a poor argument at best. The auto forming is even less of an argument. Those are really the only 2 legit arguable differences. The other nonsense about players actions in rdf groups is just that, nonsense. You can have bad apples in any group and this server accountability stuff is a joke too.
Rdf added a lot. And it was all good.
The real proof could be shown by taking it out of retail and see what happens. Subs wpuld drop like crazy. But if you had added it to tbc. Subs would have climbed. This isnt taking the easy route, its something that shluld have been in the game from launch and if they would have gotten the tech done sooner it wouldnt even be discussed. Wow was not the perfect game when it launched. Some ppl seem to think that. Sorry to burst thier bubble but many changes were improvements. Not every change was bad. Rdf was easily an improvement.
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You have to go into your user settings and manually do it. I’ve done it for a few people. Hidden profiles are for cowards anyway.
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That’s still not adding content. Just upping the frequency of dungeons. I don’t think wow is purely a dungeon simulator, so I don’t see how more dungeons makes the game better.
Adding RDF so level 15 alliance can see RDF and level 25 horde can see stockades is kinda meh.
Agreed, but that’s not in my argument anywhere. It is nice that when a party is finally formed, the dungeon starts right away instead of 15+ minutes of travel time. But that’s all it is, nice. It’s not needed.
Agree to disagree.
RDF didn’t add anything, it just let you do dungeons more often. Just sit on a conveyor belt of content while you watch netflix.
Probably true. No one likes it when you take away QoL features
Probably not true. Raid content is what brought people back to classic to relive the experience. Anyone who raids consistently likely hasn’t grinded dungeons since P1. Maybe a heroic here or there or the daily heroic for badges, or new phase badge farming, but that’s about it. No one is playing TBC so they can run dungeons all day.
Right, once they add in RDF, it will never leave. So just leave it out.
Only Strat mobs and priests can burst my bubble. Warriors will be able to do that soon too.
I think it’s funny how many people get upset at the idea of adding it back in. In general off of the reasoning that is given to keep it out is just a bunch BS. Adding it back in will give people more of an opportunity to experience more of the game. I personally don’t dungeon much leveling up because I’m not a tank or healer. It’s a massive pain to look for a group when the current tool is flooded with dps and when you aren’t the “right class” because you might share an armor type with the group lead is a total buzz kill and completely discourages people from even wanting to find groups.
The excuse of wanting to keep classic “classic” is just a lazy reason to keep it out. They have already changed a bunch of stuff that classic had that ended up making the experience different. For better or for worse. I wouldn’t be surprised if the majority of the people that complain about it possibly getting added bought a lvl 58 boost and will probably buy a level 70 boost. Let us enjoy the better parts of classic, not the mind numbing soul draining parts that everyone wants to skip anyways. Like manually finding dungeon groups. I can promise you the LFD tool didn’t kill the community.
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How’d that work out for you in LFR?