designed for solo playersAre you kidding? I played a good chunk of this game with my friends and you purposefully want us to SOLO? I kept saying they were tying to turn WoW into a One-Player Game experience and this just puts the nail in the coffin for me.I've never met any of these 'freeloaders' they're talking about or 'AFKers' I keep hearing about. Why do a few bad apples have to spoil the bunch? This sounds like they just want to force us to play the game their way, rather than what's fun and sociable for us.Newflash, automation is the new way we socialize. It's time to bring Blizzard up to speed.
Screw Blizzard and their need to screw the majority for the sins of the minority. Screw them for lying and trying to say Leechers were some widespread problem that needed "fixing". I can't bloody well believe they are honestly THIS out of touch with their community.
Sounds like the DEV leadership team is now filled with people who have never played the game or spent any time dealing with the cesspool that is general chat.
I mean, first of all that answer about how the LFG tool works is wrong "by clicking on it you'll automotically join to the group on the quest.". The in-game tool doesn't automatically let you join anything, it just searches the name of the quest and brings it up in the LFG. That is not equivalent to any of the WQ addons, WQGF most of all.Secondly, who cares if other people are freeloading on solo quests? If someone actually cares about the experience they're not going to join a group in the first place, and if they don't care about the experience there's no issue with letting people just skip it. It's solo content, someone's completion of it doesn't affect anyone else.
Their LFG answer was disappointing. I thought this game was supposed to be an MMO? Why are they making it harder to group up?And I hope to god we stop seeing free for all PvP modes. The Alliance and Horde are there for a reason. I don't want to fight or be attacked by my own faction.
I rarely saw any so called "freeloaders" in automatic world quest groups. And when I did saw them, if I was a leader I just kicked them (LFG addons have an option to warn about and kick such players), or leave and find another group if I'm not a leader.
From what I understand, this IS how WQGF worked prior to a Blizzard API change in April 2017... that was when addons adopted the pre-8.0 system of 3-5 clicks to search, join, create, and leave parties...The 8.0 changes just took this 3 steps further, as addons keep finding new, slightly slower ways to workaround Blizzard's changes... the newest version is kind of like one of them typing games, where you need to type everything yourself, but the addons tell you what to type and light up when you typed the thing (quest ID or name)...The slowest part is the having to manually accept invite requests... at least Elite Quests still allow auto-accepts apparently...
SHot me right in the heart with that LFG group answer! Bleeding slowly forward in BFA.
Really goes to show how out of touch the Devs are, like they don't even play their own game. The LFG tools were for mostly for two categories of players. 1) brand new fresh max level characters that struggle or take a really long time doing WQ's and want a bit of help.or 2) People that's already done 200 world quests and are getting sick and tired because you still attach RNG to WQ rewards to force us to do them. So here we are killing our 1,000 satyr and it's frustrating and I want it over with.
This thing with hazzikostas name should be fired and sued for professional incompetence
If they're hell-bent on making you slog through solo on one character, then they should properly design their *!@#ing classes/specs.Wet noodle DPS and poor survivability on my Enhancement Shaman doesn't lend itself to your solo playstyle, Blizz.I guess I'll have to pay $60 to boost a decent class/spec for BFA, eh? Be honest. That's ultimately what your end-game was all along. Artificially stretching out content to stagger out content creation whilst heavily incentivizing $60 boosts.
Blizzard keeps looking for things to cause players to being irate lately. Flying in WoD (and lying to us nearly the entire expansion about it), then their attempted nerf of the aqua striders during the Legion beta only for players to lash out on that, and now LFG and Sylvanas.The developers currently in place are terrible and I don't often say that. I miss the TBC and WotLK developers. Once Cata hit, things started to go downhill. Ironic since that's around the time subscriptions started to nosedive.
Such a stupid reasoning for the LFG!
I don't think that player housing will diminish player interaction (by that much, if any). I think it was Everquest where you could go visit someone's house and see how they set it up- maybe we could go check out some end-game raider's trophies and give him a rating on how he set it up? Could also lead to a side profession of woodworking where you can make simple things like chairs and tables and trophy cases.All of this would lead up to more game time spent, more instances run to collect house-filling items, and possibly more meeting new people as you go check out the set-ups! This sounds win-win! The resources blizz would have to dedicate to this venture is the only downside to doing player housing.Oh, imagine "scouting" for places to put your house! Sure, you wont see it on the map or even in the game like that, but when you bring up the housing menu BAM, there's your house sitting on bluff ridge in peaceful Mulgore... Maybe you can get a primo spot in Argus and net some points for originality!
So... you just decided to not ask about the auto accept being taken out?...
Wait, so this whole time there was a way to find groups for quests without opening up the LFG and pressing a few buttons and then typing the name of the quest or boss or activity I was looking for a group for? And now it’s gone? Well $%^&! Guess it doesn’t matter that it’s gone now.