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The arguments supporting ArenaNet’s decision to forgo a raid finder are merely repeating the fact that there is no raid finder. Not one argument holds water or even offers an opinion. I’ve read “if you are not in a large guild then your play style is not supported”. Really now? Well on Tarnished Coast from what I gather with my 3+ years of playing the VAST majority of people are in very small guilds if any at all, very few guilds dominate. Then I’ve read things like “It’s not supposed to be pug-ed”. Really again? How come then on the first night with 4 first timers and one guy who new the raid we got over 60% done on the third phase of the last boss? Also what about all that training and pug-ing we did in the dungeons and fractals? They are merely a smaller version of a raid. Oh here’s one: you need to find 10 friends. You actually know 10 people in your life that play GW2? Well lucky you. GW2 is a game with almost zero random social interaction. There is simply NO chatter on the chat channels. People rarely chat even locally. Arena Net didn’t even give us a global LFG chat channel. Furthermore get real, even kids don’t have 10 friends that all play the same games. My 12 year old son has a ton of friends and they all play games but it’s all very fragmented. Me living in a obscure place called the West coast, I am already past prime play time as the rest of the country logs off and then there is not much activity until Australia kids get home from school in the early AM my time. So I can hang around the portal, which worked on day 1, but now at day 3 no one hangs out there. This entire game community is based on pug-ing. We do it in the open world, we do it in dungeons. We’ve even done it in raids if we’re lucky. I am open minded and would love to hear a logical argument on why no type of LFR functionality exist. Cause the only good argument I can see is this: Arena Net wants to step into raiding slowly, give it a chance to develop a bit, see how it goes and then in the future open it up with tools that help people group up. Also give the community time to learn the raid. Remind me, didn’t this happen with the original release? Wasn’t the LFG tool added after the fact?
Thanks for the recommendation Einstein!
The reason this is so confusing is because Anet had no plans on creating a raidfinder. People are simply using the LFG for it because there is no other way.
I strongly recommend to play this kind of content with a guild or friends though.
My friend and I were unable to access the game for over an hour yesterday. the details …
On 10/28/2015 at around 6:30 PM PST after logging in I was at the load screen for Lion’s Arch for kittenual amount of time. A few minutes into my session I got a message in chat saying a new build was being install and my session would restart in an hour. However after just a few minutes I ported to the capital city in Asura, again long load times.
I finally got in but when I ported again after long load screen I would get a client disconnect error. This lasted for about 90 minutes. Finally got in. When I went to the new zone (from Brisban) the game was not very responsive. I would hit a command and my character would react about 2 seconds later making combat not possible.
After about 3 total hours I gave up.
Both my friend and I had a similar experience. He’s on the east coast (with a new high performance PC) I’m on the west coast. We even tried to guest on another server with no better result.
Worst part was there was no communication from Arena Net that I could find.
My friend and I were unable to access the game for over an hour yesterday. the details …
On 10/28/2015 at around 6:30 PM PST after logging in I was at the load screen for Lion’s Arch for kittenual amount of time. A few minutes into my session I got a message in chat saying a new build was being install and my session would restart in an hour. However after just a few minutes I ported to the capital city in Asura, again long load times.
I finally got in but when I ported again after long load screen I would get a client disconnect error. This lasted for about 90 minutes. Finally got in. When I went to the new zone (from Brisban) the game was not very responsive. I would hit a command and my character would react about 2 seconds later making combat not possible.
After about 3 total hours I gave up.
Both my friend and I had a similar experience. He’s on the east coast (with a new high performance PC) I’m on the west coast. We even tried to guest on another server with no better result.
Worst part was there was no communication from Arena Net that I could find.