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Originally Posted by Cad  Actually, I've been pretty happy with it. I needed to do ZF the other day on my Druid, and I plugged in the appropriate stuff and got a group in less than 20 seconds. We had a couple of people leave and got replacements in ~1 minute.
I thought it was pretty nice, all things considered (my server age, relative population of people around that level, etc). |
The LFG tool is great if you know exactly what you want, whether it be character or instance, and can stay around to wait for such a group in the case it doesn't exist. It's horrible if you want to shop around for a group or if you like to, as I do, play an alt while waiting for an appropriate group.
I'm just pissed that after such a long history of good MMO LFG role model interfaces Blizzard churns out something that has less functionality and which feels like it's designed by an UI retard. I guess they wanted to make it like Warcraft III because
that's what Blizzboys are familiar with, but RTS and MMO are two different things. In a RTS (esp. a Blizzard RTS) hundreds of thousands of people are looking to play games on a regular basis and you can get auto-matched into a game within seconds of looking; in WoW, on the other hand, depending on your server's population you might be waiting anywhere from seconds to hours. In this situation, automatic matchmaking requiring you to be online with that character sucks and is a throwback to the pre-LFG tool days of EQ, while not being able to list all the groups that are LFM is just plain retarded.
