Catwho wrote:
Party Finder is actually a really useful tool. It gets used not only for building raid teams, but for advertisements for new FCs, people selling houses, etc. And of course sometimes silliness. It's basically a message board.
I understand that it's quite versatile in the ways it's used. It's not any different in most other games either. You find anything from sales to guild recruitment and everything in-between on it. Most games have other tools for that though. Alliance system in TERA, guild finding tool in WoW, any of the myriad of websites devoted to finding a buyer or seller for items, ect.
I can see how it would be quicker to just use shouts for things like hunts, but I was speaking about higher tier content. Things that you want to approach with players who you can get to try different strategies, people who will stick around for more than an attempt or two and people who you might even voice chat to make sure everyone is on the same page. Beyond that, these are the types of players that you'd likely gravitate toward grouping with again if you enjoyed the experience.
Party tools take a lot of that away from the game. There's really no telling what you'll get from it. You might get a great group, you might get a princess paladin or a DD that doesn't know or care to manage threat or even just someone trolling for no reason. Speaking of trolling for no reason...
Archmage Callinon wrote:
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B) I don't know what PF is. I must be a noob.
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It's pretty clear that I understand exactly what it is.
It's pretty clear you don't.
I increased the size so I knew you'd see it, but you still blatantly skipped over the part of my post that clearly shows that I know what he meant. Purposeful ignorance? What's the basis?
You're trying to call me on something that not only can everyone else see, they already know that I understand how it works because I discussed it way back when it was implemented into the game.I know that you've been around long enough to know better yourself. So... are you just trying to troll? Am I missing the joke here?
*edit for clarity*
I'm against any type of group queue system in any game for any content that is intended to be challenging. It's fine for anything that would be considered trivial like lower level dungeons, FATEs and rifts, hunts ect.
I'm not griping about ARR, but about something that is impacting
all MMOs that use this system. That includes pretty much all of them. For that reason, I feel that the point I'm making is valid regardless of whether or not I have an active subscription to any one in particular. It's not hard to find feedback for each of these games regarding their respective queue systems. What you'll find is that despite them all being different games, they do share a lot of similarities. The games are different, but the impact is universal.
Edited, Jun 8th 2015 5:57am by FilthMcNasty