Guild Wars 2

YES! i want this!

if only lol, I heard they were working on some kind of improved LFG feature, but they can say alot of things and implement none of them so…

Yes please…or any LFG system that functions properly would be acceptable to me.

Even a blog post about what they are planning would be nice, but hopefully when it happens, it works well

YES I agree Guild Wars 2 needs a better way to find parties.
Something like what was in GW1 would work awesome for Dungeons.
you can find a group with ease then.

I think this feature is highly needed. It is getting really hard to find a group for dungeons. On top of that, I am mostly a night gamer, when most people are sleeping. Which makes forming a party even more difficult. A LFG feature would be great, and help make dungeons more used.

I entirely agree. LFG is a pain in the a… in the current setup, and urgently needs better automation.

The current system,shouting in mapchat every 5 min and the lfg flag that most ppl dont even know it exists (not that it matters its just a joke anyway) is laughable bad for an AAA MMO, they need to fix that asap.

I’m totally against any LFG tool, everyone would be then in a major city jumping around waiting to insta-join something without any efford. I like the way it is now, if you want to do something you just can use the nearest dungeon WP and find someone. This is not hard at all.

crazyryoga.1876:

I’m totally against any LFG tool, everyone would be then in a major city jumping around waiting to insta-join something without any efford. I like the way it is now, if you want to do something you just can use the nearest dungeon WP and find someone. This is not hard at all.

… everyone is already standing around in LA spamming LFG, with a proper LFG toll you could actually be out in the world exploring etc while looking for a group

so yeah i fully support the OP, a fine way to do it

Totally support this.

I don’t see how you could reasonably be against this. I don’t think the game should have an automated Dungeon Finder system like that in WoW, SWtOR or Rift where you get placed in a group and ported there (although the lazy guy inside me does wish it sometimes). However a UI element to adverstise that you are LFG that people forming groups can look at and invite people from seems like a no-brainer.

As well as GW1 most other games started out with a system like this – it’s what WoW used before Dungeon Finder – and the only weakness of such a system was that it would be full of DPS and no Tanks (who could always get a group without listing themselves on the tool). In this game, with no holy trinity of class roles, that weakness wouldn’t be there and this system would work exceptionally well, IMO – possibly even better than a computer-automated system since the variances in group makeup are more subtle here and better to compensate with a human putting their groups together.

I support this in 100%. With each new feature we are closer to standard mmos so why not implement another standard mmo feature? Shouting in map chat is so old and doesn’t belong to truly AAA mmo.

crazyryoga.1876:

I’m totally against any LFG tool, everyone would be then in a major city jumping around waiting to insta-join something without any efford. I like the way it is now, if you want to do something you just can use the nearest dungeon WP and find someone. This is not hard at all.

for the 20-30 people around the dungeon, there are most likely countless more off doing other things, but they probably still want to do the dungeon as well.

I am one of those people, I like doing dungeons, but I don’t like standing in town/dungeon area spamming LFG, i’m around in various zones doing various things.

You have it completely backwards…

crazyryoga.1876:

I’m totally against any LFG tool, everyone would be then in a major city jumping around waiting to insta-join something without any effort. I like the way it is now, if you want to do something you just can use the nearest dungeon WP and find someone. This is not hard at all.

I do believe you have this in a wrong opinion. At any given time i can sit in Lion’s Arch and see nothing but LFG 80 Necro FoTM Lave 3 ect ect. Half the time i can not get a simple question answered as my question is flooded out by the GLF or LFG .

To implement a system that puts you into a que area and people can look through and create groups form that while you go out to what ever area your in and explore or farm would be great. I think the Ideal of an automated one like wow has is not needed at all. But one defiantly needs to be put into place.

At this point in time what your are suggesting is a LFG system is going to cause the wow effect of people jumping around/ standing in major cities and waiting to que. This is the reason you disagree with it, well at the current time with no application in place the WoW effect is still happening. So Please think about it for a second and realize that if it is already happening why not put one in place? What is the worse that is going to happen, the lazy people regardless of system are still going to stand waiting?

I support this Idea

I doubt it would stop the “LFG” spam in towns, but it would lower it at least….

DDO has an excellent LFG feature. I have posted about it before and included a screen shot, but I am too lazy to search for the link.

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I played a little bit of DDO but never used the LFG feature, no idea how it works, might have to look into it.

Zietlogik.6208:

I doubt it would stop the “LFG” spam in towns, but it would lower it at least….

Your right it defiantly wont stop the LFG spam but I am betting it would dampen it by at least 60% – 75% and that in any game is a good thing.

And the people that stay in the major cities and spam LFG in Map are the same people that no matter what you did will only sit in towns and never do anything in a game.

Kaimick.5109:

Zietlogik.6208:

I doubt it would stop the “LFG” spam in towns, but it would lower it at least….

Your right it defiantly wont stop the LFG spam but I am betting it would dampen it by at least 60% – 75% and that in any game is a good thing.

And the people that stay in the major cities and spam LFG in Map are the same people that no matter what you did will only sit in towns and never do anything in a game.

It may convert a few, if they are people, and they are logically thinking people, then they would realize than even if they ONLY thing they want to do is dungeons, a LFG feature that lets you create parties anywhere for anything, means anywhere they choose to be is a central hub, and that may make them explore a little, even if it is just running around while they create/look for a dungeon party.

But i’m no expert on these types of people, so they may simply tunnel vision into the same ol’ and stand on some random pole in town with their chat box constantly open :p

And this is correct, I think I was in rebuttle originally to crazyryoga.1876 sayign it would cause more people to pole stand and keep their chat window open as you say. When in reality we already have people doing this with out it, because going into Orr and spamming LFG CoF path 1,2,3 is somewhat silly. so Lion’s arch makes perfect sense as of now.

I wish Anet were a little more transparent, or alot more transparent, like how they were prior to the games launch…they gave us blogs and info out the wazoo….but now? crickets

That is because Anet had 5 years to find out what they needed to talk about and in 6 months they talked about it all to the public… now is the time to let them do their job enjoy your game and either accept what they do because they make a game that makes millions of dollars or leave ;-)

also allow 10 man partys pls

Yes, larger parties would be nice, maybe limit them into entry from some areas, but I so NO reason to have a limit of 5 people in any area other than dungeons and sPvP…..we should be able to have unlimited group size in pve/WvW…

The only issue I could forsee with that, is that the server is near capacity and would not let in the entire group in.

WvW is almost impossible to play with limit of 5 players in a party, even using vent and teamspeak is not easy. It’s so horrible to play WvW when you have 6 guild members and someone will stay out or you have to create 2 parties with 3 players… Is this for real? C’mon! Then the other team has at least 30 players around your keep and you can’t even organize a group of 20 players that are in the area looking for other players! Yes, players looking for players are not finding players! I really lost my patience, sorry, but this is still horrible.

meh i just opened a topic asking for a dungeon finder, i should have read this 1st. i dont even understand why Anet released a game without this, specially for a game where living together is encouraged.

Ok, I went to edit the OP to also include the party size thing, but it is pretty helpful.

If it’s not going to be an automated dungeon finder, that makes the group and teleports you to the dungeon, there’s no point in changing the current LFG tool.

No more “inbetween” lfg tools, just make a proper dungeon finder so we don’t have to wait for an entire hour in LA to get a group for Sorrow’s Embrace .

Negrul.5423:

If it’s not going to be an automated dungeon finder, that makes the group and teleports you to the dungeon, there’s no point in changing the current LFG tool.

No more “inbetween” lfg tools, just make a proper dungeon finder so we don’t have to wait for an entire hour in LA to get a group for Sorrow’s Embrace .

No….that is the worst form of LFG I could think of, this does not promote anything other than “i wanna farm dungeons” mentality

the automatic kind of LFG caters to people who don’t CARE that they are in a group, they just NEED one to do the content, and couldn’t give 2 kittens about who else is on their team….they just wanna run dungeons mindlessly for tokens etc.

The current LFG feature is practically non-existent, so your “no point” argument is not really an argument, it is just simply: wrong.

Perhaps you should try reading the suggestion before adding your 2 cents, because that tends to just roll them down the drain.

Zietlogik.6208:

No….that is the worst form of LFG I could think of, this does not promote anything other than “i wanna farm dungeons” mentality

Saying that’s what “you can think of” it’s not an argument, it’s you having no arguments at all.

Zietlogik.6208:

the automatic kind of LFG caters to people who don’t CARE that they are in a group, they just NEED one to do the content, and couldn’t give 2 kittens about who else is on their team….they just wanna run dungeons mindlessly for tokens etc.

Nothing wrong with wanting to run dungeons, after all it’s a video game so one would want to play it, not stand around in one place for hours looking for others to play with.

Zietlogik.6208:

The current LFG feature is practically non-existent, so your “no point” argument is not really an argument, it is just simply: wrong.

I’ll say this again, maybe you will be able to understand it this time: change the current LFG tool only to dungeon finder, nothing less; making it anything else, will not be of much help, if any, to finding a group.

Zietlogik.6208:

Perhaps you should try reading the suggestion before adding your 2 cents, because that tends to just roll them down the drain.

Perhaps you should try understanding the suggestion…

Don’t reply if you cannot add anything constructive to this suggestion, you seem to have misinterpreted everything I have posted so far, including the OP.

I just realized that their “lost shores and beyond” didn’t include anything for grouping or community, in exception to the Guild bit.

Seems a little unfortunate, but I am sure they have a mile long list of things they are looking into that we will never see.

Zietlogik.6208:

I just realized that their “lost shores and beyond” didn’t include anything for grouping or community, in exception to the Guild bit.

Seems a little unfortunate, but I am sure they have a mile long list of things they are looking into that we will never see.

Very true im certain they do have a long list. However this issue is quickly creeping up the charts im sure. the amount of hate happening right now for the whole fractal dungeon and with nobody able to find groups and forum raging over it its going to be impossible for them to ignore for much longer. A dungeon tool, regardless of the end result they decide to go for needs to be implemented one way or another

I’m all for this. It’s basically a tool that does the same thing as spamming “LFG Xdungeon, PST”, which is basically advertising for a dungeon, but in a neat UI tool that can be accessed anywhere. We definitely need this.

I’m not for a full automated tool with auto-grouping, auto-porting, etc. I just do not think that it is needed, nor does it add anything to the game. It can actually subtract from it (the "I-don’t-care-what-happens mentality, I can just get another group regardless of my reputation).

Wish they would release some new blog posts or something, they really slowed down on info after launch, and the amount of transparency is severely lacking.

This is much needed. Most important element of it would be it being cross-server.

I have a lot of trouble finding groups sometimes, particularly for underdone dungeons like SE.

Ah, yes, it does need to be global, just like the Trading Post, it may be problematic initially, but they can fix it hopefully

we need it as soon as possible

Thumbs up from me, although I still feel a bit unsure about it overall. I like the idea of being able to login click a button and be off to enjoy some dungeon action, but on the other hand I fear it going the way of WoW and becoming a daily grindfest. Still if done right I think it can be beneficial.

Pretty please develop something like this. It would solve the LA chat floods for LFG as well.

1.) Make it global please! Perhaps server select ability as a filter, off by default.
2.) Enable players to choose common options – each dungeon, WvW, or exploring / area clear (limited to server only until guesting is available) WITH the ability for entering custom messages.

In my opinion if all personal story quests have been fixed (which they seem to be), implemented this should take a very high priority.

Ya, it would more or less be an interactive list, that you can invite/message people from, as well as view the players who wish to do certain content, and the content you want to do as well.

I hope they don’t add achievements etc. to it, like they did with PvP, it seems rather pointless, although I can see where they are coming from, it entices players to use the features etc. more because things like achieves and shinies are attached to it.

I fully support this idea. In fact, I have more or less given up on running dungeons (any and all) until some sort of refined party-grouping system is added past shouting in chat.

Additionally, I share the view that this grouper should not be automated, as doing so more often than not causes grief than success.

The only people i normally see around dungeons or AC, and what about people that play later?
All i want in an option to say what you’re looking for… TA EXP. Done. Have the option to invite and request to partys – what’s the issue? Sick of spamming LA..

blue.8629:

The only people i normally see around dungeons or AC, and what about people that play later?
All i want in an option to say what you’re looking for… TA EXP. Done. Have the option to invite and request to partys – what’s the issue? Sick of spamming LA..

Yep, that is pretty much what the idea is. Hopefully it is not too hard to implement, the system they had in Guild Wars was a fragment of what they could potentially create.

Game is gona need a dungeon finder, it’ll be god awful for how difficult the dungeons are, but I can’t even get a guild to do them after they’ve gotten their armor.

Zoke.2147:

Game is gona need a dungeon finder, it’ll be god awful for how difficult the dungeons are, but I can’t even get a guild to do them after they’ve gotten their armor.

Well dungeon items are pretty much just for aesthetics, since you can craft and buy with karma (easier now) max level exotic armors.

But the idea is not just for a dungeon finder, it would be for all and any type of group you are looking for.

Im totally supporting this! The current LFG system is a joke. A clean interface with check-boxes for what content you are looking for, with no auto-join or auto-teleport function would be a significant upgrade to this game. Every time i have tried looking for a dungeon-run, I end up standing in front of the dungeon for 15+ min trying to get a group going and apparently “spamming” the chat because i typed in “LFX More ppl” more than twice within 10 min :p

I support this idea

robinsiebler.3801:

DDO has an excellent LFG feature. I have posted about it before and included a screen shot, but I am too lazy to search for the link.

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this.

one of the best LFG tools around.

simple and effective.