Guild Wars 2

Wasn’t sure whether to put this in General or here…

It’s been my experience so far that the LFG tool is deeply flawed. Players repeatedly join groups without reading the description as to what the group’s looking for and wait until entering an instance before asking basic questions like which path we’re doing and so on. To compound on matters, the description script (which we’ve already established no one really bothers to read anyway) appears to be tied into the chat system and you can easily end up being suppressed just for trying to update it.

This kind of thing is endemic and it’d be painful enough without the abysmal “group merge” feature. I am curious as to what the thought was behind introducing this function? I would trust ArenaNet would appreciate my intelligence enough so that if I wanted to bring another group into my own PUG, I could just send them a /tell and ask. I really cannot see any purpose behind the group merge feature and I feel it is contributing in a major way to the drastic drop in group quality.

The tool feels very rushed and poorly thought out to say the least. If the group merge functionality could be turned off for now it’d raise the quality-of-life in-game at the moment by a factor of around nine billion.

Nan, i like the LFG tool , and the merge party is quite hilarious sometimes, the other day we end up with 5 warriors party… Never again!

I don’t like it. I mean, I use it because the alternative is even more undesirable, but the current LFG feels like an afterthought. It’s kind of ridiculous that the party leader has absolutely no control over who joins the team. That’s my biggest problem with it. Also the fractals being organized 20-39 is kind of strange given the other categories.

It needs more customization options besides a dialogue box and party leader controls. Otherwise I’m glad it exists. I like staying in the game when I play rather than using that awful website. My final thoughts? It serves its purpose, but minimally.

Yeah, i prefer the join button to be more of a petition to join the party thing. Other than that, i don’t have much qualms with it.

if you want control over who joins your team, use /m.

a t s e.9614:

Nan, i like the LFG tool , and the merge party is quite hilarious sometimes, the other day we end up with 5 warriors party… Never again!

I’d actually like to do an all-warrior party some day. Mind you it would have to be with my guild, and over voice chat. I can’t picture a PuG handling it fairly.

“I like staying in the game when I play rather than using that awful website. My final thoughts? It serves its purpose, but minimally.”

Which awful website are you referring too? I hope its not gw2lfg that site gave us a tool helped others to group for instances. It wasnt awful it was gratefully received. But if your referring to something else I would still call you ungrateful. Did you do anything to help the community with the LFG situation or just moan about it and do nothing.

Peeka.7961:

“I like staying in the game when I play rather than using that awful website. My final thoughts? It serves its purpose, but minimally.”

Which awful website are you referring too? I hope its not gw2lfg that site gave us a tool helped others to group for instances. It wasnt awful it was gratefully received. But if your referring to something else I would still call you ungrateful. Did you do anything to help the community with the LFG situation or just moan about it and do nothing.

Well aren’t we touchy…

I call it awful because personally, I thought it was awful. I mostly used map chat to fill up the last few slots in our party that guild members didn’t fill. I didn’t moan about anything, and I’m not moaning about the in-game tool either. OP asked for opinions and I gave it, which is clearly more than you’re doing for this thread. Did you come here to voice your opinion or just moan about others’ opinions and do nothing?

shimmerless.4560:

Wasn’t sure whether to put this in General or here…

It’s been my experience so far that the LFG tool is deeply flawed. Players repeatedly join groups without reading the description as to what the group’s looking for and wait until entering an instance before asking basic questions like which path we’re doing and so on.

Let me get this straight… you’re prompting a suggestion for the LFG tool because people are stupid and not using the tool the way any intelligent person would expect them to? Is it ANet’s fault people are unwilling to read? Are you expecting ANet to somehow force people to read the description, acknowledge what it says and then abide by it? Maybe there should be an option to set up a little quiz about the comment text to make sure they understood what was there before being able to join the group? Of course they could still be failing to adhere to your expectations.

To compound on matters, the description script (which we’ve already established no one really bothers to read anyway) appears to be tied into the chat system and you can easily end up being suppressed just for trying to update it.

This is an actual problem and should be worked on. Work on, in this case, meaning to separate the descriptor from the chat system, and nothing else.

This kind of thing is endemic and it’d be painful enough without the abysmal “group merge” feature. I am curious as to what the thought was behind introducing this function? I would trust ArenaNet would appreciate my intelligence enough so that if I wanted to bring another group into my own PUG, I could just send them a /tell and ask. I really cannot see any purpose behind the group merge feature and I feel it is contributing in a major way to the drastic drop in group quality.

What exactly does your intelligence have to do with anything, and why should ANet appreciate it? They are allowing groups to skip a step. Rather than having to break up one group in order to get everyone into another group and, worse, possibly have someone sneak in and steal a spot from one of those that were merging, the groups can simply combine. I would like to assume that the joining group still has to be accepted by the joined group, so they should be able to decline. If they can’t then that’s a feature that should be fixed.

The tool feels very rushed and poorly thought out to say the least. If the group merge functionality could be turned off for now it’d raise the quality-of-life in-game at the moment by a factor of around nine billion.

Nine billion? Really? Not allowing someone to bring himself and his friend into a group without breaking their group first would improve everyone’s life nine times ten to the ninth? Wow…

shimmerless.4560:

Wasn’t sure whether to put this in General or here…

It’s been my experience so far that the LFG tool is deeply flawed. Players repeatedly join groups without reading the description as to what the group’s looking for and wait until entering an instance before asking basic questions like which path we’re doing and so on. To compound on matters, the description script (which we’ve already established no one really bothers to read anyway) appears to be tied into the chat system and you can easily end up being suppressed just for trying to update it.

This kind of thing is endemic and it’d be painful enough without the abysmal “group merge” feature. I am curious as to what the thought was behind introducing this function? I would trust ArenaNet would appreciate my intelligence enough so that if I wanted to bring another group into my own PUG, I could just send them a /tell and ask. I really cannot see any purpose behind the group merge feature and I feel it is contributing in a major way to the drastic drop in group quality.

The tool feels very rushed and poorly thought out to say the least. If the group merge functionality could be turned off for now it’d raise the quality-of-life in-game at the moment by a factor of around nine billion.

- players join group “without reading the description” …. how is that the fault of the LFG tool? thats the players fault! it is ok, eventually ppl will catch up with it.

oh and that other thing u said “drop in group quality”??? yeah that comes with the pug so suck it up, but its only a problem when more than 2 ppl dont know what to do at a given stage of a dungeon or whatever, eventually those players learn and catch up just fiiiine!, but obviously not thxs to ppl like you though who expect every random player to be a well seasoned veteran .

shame on u shimmerless Im pretty sure u didnt start this game knowing what to do and where to go without some guidance from more experienced players even if they were just a couple of hours ahead of you .

“Well aren’t we touchy…

I call it awful because personally, I thought it was awful. I mostly used map chat to fill up the last few slots in our party that guild members didn’t fill. I didn’t moan about anything, and I’m not moaning about the in-game tool either. OP asked for opinions and I gave it, which is clearly more than you’re doing for this thread. Did you come here to voice your opinion or just moan about others’ opinions and do nothing?"

Actually I did voice it to a Anet employee who was playing a few months back, there was one in our Teq organized raidcall channel as well, they said there was a LFG in the works.

In my Opinion you are Ungrateful, unappreciative, and moaning, Im describing it how I see it.

They put up a website that the whole community could use for our benefit, now we have the ingame one. A moment to say farewell to gw2lfg. you were there when we needed you Thanks.

I havent personally used the new LFG yet because Im from a large guild that constantly runs various events and dungeons.

But I appreciate that its there. Not sure how user friendly it is, I mite test it out for the new TA path.