Originally Posted by
Alhanelem
I disagree. While things are somewhat easier than they once were with /yell, something that will quickly bring players together would be a boon to FFXI, as long as it just makes the parties beforehand so you can change something before entry (unlike how it works in FFXIV). Then you just have your party and you can do whatever with it, and can continue to do multiple things with that same group if you want, which is the core flaw of the duty finder system where you're stuck with who you get and if you liked the people you played with there's no easy way to do more with the same party.
Technically we've had the "autogroup" feature forever, but it is literally never used because it is unintuitive, only works within an area, and doesn't let you specify what you intend to do. And telling people to "go play FFXIV" for wanting a convenient method of grouping is rather a jerky thing to say, for lack of better words. After all, it has little to do with the gameplay itself and maybe they like FFXI's gameplay even if they like some of the supporting systems that were developed in FFXIV. I'm subbed to both and love both for different reasons.