Guild Wars 2

I feel that the lack of custom created chat channels really hurts this game.
Currently, I am running around in Queensdale because I’m looking for a CM group. But I’d also go TA or AC if I had the opportunity. However, I can’t really switch between the zones for those instances to call LFG because the cost would be too high. Sitting around in lion’s arch wouldn’t work either because then I’d miss out on the people LFGing in the zones.

Now, this game isn’t the first MMO without a proper lfg/dungeon tool. I only got first hand experience from WoW and Rift, both of which didn’t have a lfg tool for quite some time.
On many servers, the players’ solution was to create a custom chat channel to organize groups. It would normally be called LFG or something like that and although it didn’t reach the whole population, the more people joined it, the better it worked.

So why can’t we create custom chat channels? It would really be a great help and surely it would be less hassle for them than creating a lfg tool (that people will complain about anyways).
AN wouldn’t even have to implement the ability to create chat channels, they could just open up an official chat channel that people can join/display or ignore if they chose to. This probably would be even less work and it could maybe even be cross-server (like the overflow chat) for a few servers or maybe even a whole language area (enUS, enGB, de, fr, sp…).

Either solutions/features would be great while we surely surely will be waiting for the lfg tool for some more time.

Wouldn´t surprise me one bit that it´s because they had to hardcode chat channels into the map instances to make it to the launch deadline.

So a server-wide chat channel probably isn´t even possible.
Hope ANet eventually proves my worst case scenario wrong.