Quote Originally Posted by Ziyyigo-Tipyigo View Post
At any rate, my own two cents is that /yell is a band-aid measure, designed to treat the symptom rather than the disease. In this case, the disease is an ineffective /search and /seacom system. Yes, it's a bit of a Catch-22, but the reason people like to stand in one gathering place and /shout is that trying to find players with the same or similar interests is all but impossible with the /search feature, and people generally don't use /seacom to actually find a group because it's never actually worked for them in the past.
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Agreed. The system simply takes too much time away from playing the game to even begin to weed through each and every comment in the hopes of actually finding something worthy to invest your time in. Usually, after enough time has passed, the comment is outdated or the player is afk.