Guild Wars 2

Why does it seem like every MMO release, there is a huge aversion from the developers to allow something like a wide-reaching LFG channel for people to find dungeon groups.

Instead, we get nothing, all while waiting for some mythical unicorn solution to the problem, and generally end up with something that is a colossal failure and unused like Meeting Stones in WoW. It took 5 years after that for Blizzard to introduce the dungeon finder.

For a while, GW2 had cross-server guilds that used guildchat to fill this function. Those have died off a bit, and now there is a website now trying to organize LFG’s outside of the game.

Why do we have to go to such lengths to do something that a simple LFG channel can fill?

Even city/map wide chats are full of trash chats in every MMO, think about the chats occuring in LA right now, if there is a server wide LFG channel, it will be even worse. A simple chat channel imo won’t solve the problem at all and won’t work well, I rather have a flag and filter system and allow more direct player/group communication.

But in any case, the devs have mentioned they are working on a new system, so we’ll just have to wait and see.

actually. goldspam has fallen pretty drastically since release. I don’t think at least TRYING a global LFG would hurt.

Because Arena Net still wants to hold on to the illusion that dungeons are not meant for pugs.

Gab Superstar.4059:

Because Arena Net still wants to hold on to the illusion that dungeons are not meant for pugs.

Lol dont tell me they actually stated that?. That sounds rather eh silly.

It’s terrible that there isn’t already an interface to find dungeon groups, and seems to be no plans for one. Particularly for story mode dungeons which most people have already done (with no real incentive to do again). I hate feeling like I have to spam chat to find a group.