Arenanet needs to buy gw2lfg.com !
First off they don’t need to buy it, I think they already support it as Moderators have referred people to it. Also anything that uses the Guild Wars anything is creative property of Arena Net and NC Soft as is, therefore buying it from them is not needed.
With all that said, I am almost certain that Arena Net is taking that website GW2lfg.com and putting it in a In game UI for us come the end of January and or begging of Febuary.
Your correct they can hold intellectual property rights over the site but the site owners would be better off selling it. They can’t be even covering the cost of there web server fees with their ad revenue. It is because I have seen moderators recommend the site that I suggest they buy it. They already support the site, why not let the site creators profit from it.
The have an Android App put for it now.
I am not saying they can’t or shouldn’t just saying they don’t need to. Who knows they have maybe even gave the guy a lil money any how, after all they are putting it in the game so.
Why would ANET need to buy GW2lfg to implement it in game ?
The database of people looking for a group is the easy part of a dungeon finder, and that’s all GW2lfg is. The tricky parts are integrating the database with GW2, and those parts are easier if ANET designs the database from scratch with the intention of integrating it, not try and kludge another one in.
They don’t need to buy it…they just need to work towards (or at least use this as an example) getting things in game that players would actually want.
The fact that GW2LFG is quite popular says a few things that their metrics will never show them. They said they didn’t have plans for a Dungeon finder tool or dedicated LFG tool but that’s soon to be changed.
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For those new to the world of Tyria, the way party formation worked in GW1 you had a party seach tab (P) that you opened. You could them find other players by posting a short message under 5 categories: quests, missions, trade, hunting, and guild. As time went by, the majority of the posts were for trade, since there was no auction house. But it was still used for finding others to help you with missions and quests.
For example: In pre-searing ascalon you would use it to find hunting charr parties. In Spama… um Kamadan, you would use it to find players to ferry you to the docs (allowing players to skip some content to go on to a mission). And guild recruiters posted their guild stats in Lions Arch. Temple of the ages party list included players looking for parties to do the Underworld or Fissure of Woe. And every mission outpost allowed you to post if you were looking for help. The idea of Embark Beach was that anyone needing help with a mission would go to one central location from which the missions could easily be accessed by a party of players.
But in GW2 this feature is missing. How do I join a guild? Do I spam in LA: “lf guild” and hope and pray some guild leader will see my message in chat? Nope… I got to go to forums and look for guilds there.
If I need help with a heart (knowing I need the help before I go and do it) how do I hook up with other players? Do I spam map chat and hope some kind soul will come along to help me? Unfortunately what happens instead, new players are running around on their own and they come across a problem, and then announce to the map they are having a problem. Unless I’m close to the area I won’t help, because chances are I’m already in the middle of a heart or an event. Why should I pay the way point fee to jump over to them and help them out. If they had “grouped” up with me before leaving LA or DR (etc…) they would have had the help they needed, and they wouldn’t be playing solo. They would actually be playing with other players like an MMO is suppose to be played.
But all of the above is nothing compared to the problem of hooking up with PUG’s in order to do dungeons. Until I came across this site (GW2lfg.com) I thought the game was dead… I couldn’t for the life of me find parties to do dungeons with. And considered myself lucky if I happened to be in LA when someone posts that they need 1 more for dungeon X. Admittedly I was on a low population server, but this just highlights my point: How can you party up with other players across the servers if you are not in a guild (like me) or don’t have friends playing GW2 (like me)? (Perhaps I’m the exception to the rule, but I think there are a lot of players out there who are new to the MMO genre or don’t have that many friends who are into gaming). How do you find other random players to do dungeons with?
ArenaNet, please please bring back the Party Search feature from GW1!
Charr Engineer
I came back to Guild Wars 2 believe it or not because of that website, I found it on guildwars2guru. After I stopped playing GW2 I would always every day check guildwars2guru for new stuff in Guild Wars 2 (new content/updates/features/etc)
The site is amazing, the idea is amazing. It would be outstanding to have this in game, Very Good.