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copernic · 12-30-2006, 02:52 PM

I've seen a lot of people from Beta saying 'LFG works great in Beta. I always get groups'

But honestly, the experience in Beta has absolutely no relevance to how good the LFG tool is. In Beta, you have hundreds upon thousands of players with one goal: to run the new instances. You could get a group in 5 minutes just by parking a healer in front of Hellfire Citadel.

The true test of an LFG tool comes when people are thin on the ground. Does it aggregate people on different continents, with different levels? Does it provide for the widespread use of alts? Does it make it easy to browse? All in all, does it help me or hinder me at forming a Gnomeregan group at 11am on a Thursday?

And in all those situations, LFG fails. Hard. Fails when it's actually needed.

So don't compare it against Beta. Sure, LFG works in Beta. My POS car would work if you put it at the top of the hill and pushed it down, with 5000 people to help. That's not what LFG is for.

12-30-2006, 02:52 PM	#10 (permalink)
copernic Warcraft is the only MMO I've ever played Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 76 +0 Internets	I've seen a lot of people from Beta saying 'LFG works great in Beta. I always get groups' But honestly, the experience in Beta has absolutely no relevance to how good the LFG tool is. In Beta, you have hundreds upon thousands of players with one goal: to run the new instances. You could get a group in 5 minutes just by parking a healer in front of Hellfire Citadel. The true test of an LFG tool comes when people are thin on the ground. Does it aggregate people on different continents, with different levels? Does it provide for the widespread use of alts? Does it make it easy to browse? All in all, does it help me or hinder me at forming a Gnomeregan group at 11am on a Thursday? And in all those situations, LFG fails. Hard. Fails when it's actually needed. So don't compare it against Beta. Sure, LFG works in Beta. My POS car would work if you put it at the top of the hill and pushed it down, with 5000 people to help. That's not what LFG is for.