Laziness or Problem? Only shouting rather than using /lfp and player search.

[Pence]

Perhaps a...LFG board would fix it ?

[DracotheDragon]

wait /lfg ... i didnt even know that was in this game o...o i saw all the people shouting and thought that was how we get into groups ^w^;

[NoctisCaelus]

I don't know if you know this but they're going to add a board to find parties eventually. So just wait it out.

[King_Reux]

The looking for party function is hidden and there no clear visable sign like ffxi that shows people looking, and there search function is to far hidden also. Most modern day mmo do not even got that outdated function anymore. It just a waste of memory and storage and bandwith. Now if they can just get there duty finder to modern day usage be great. It just like in FFXI in the later years it faster to do a shouts in the right zones. Then to try and do the searches.

A green Diamond like icon appears beside your name. It is very visible, not enough people use it for people to just know what it means. Also the player search tab is in the Social Lists tab. It's in a very reasonable location. Not hidden at all.

" Most modern day mmo do not even got that outdated function anymore. It just a waste of memory and storage and bandwith."

This makes absolutely no sense by the way. Considering "Most modern day mmo..." are solo based and have no need for parties. /lfp and a player search tool should be native to any mmo. So you can find EXACTLY what you are looking for. Instead of "Hey I need a party" 20 times in shout by 20 different people. Cluttering chat to the fullest. If anything shout searching is an "outdated function", "It just a waste of" time and effort. "Now if they can just get there duty finder to" have a specific Players LFP button that brought up the player search; only showing players lfp also after queuing automatically setting you to lfp. Rather than just queuing up and looking for players, so you can have both options of finding party members right in front of your face. So no one can be ignorant to the fact of the options to find parties, thus solving a lot of problems almost effortlessly.

[King_Reux]

They have an lfg board already. It's Player Search. You use the search option icon that represents players looking for group. It pulls up 200 names at a time in a "Board" or list. Noone uses it though. Thanks to mmo's not adopting FFXI's lfg board (Not saying it was the 1st ever, it was the first I came across.).

[Oextra]

Most modern day mmo do not even got that outdated function anymore. It just a waste of memory and storage and bandwith.

Lol, ok so how is this outdated and yet SHOUTING is more up to date? Oh man I've seen some funny stuff said before but this one cracks me up the most.

[Eekiki]

They said somewhere they're going to make LFP more useful.

The fact that almost everyone uses /shout is kind of a remnant from 1.0, where the player search was so awful it was completely useless.

[Soukyuu]

The fact that almost everyone uses /shout is kind of a remnant from 1.0, where the player search was so awful it was completely useless.

I agree on the first part, but not on the last. The other system wasn't a player search, it was a party offer system. The only difference was that you, the player, had to become active and look for a party for the content you wanted to do. The leader just set the party composition (e.g. x tanks, y dps, z healers) and you could join if you fit the criteria.

The player search they added later, and what we have now, is the other way around, the leader has to actively search for any people willing to join. The Japanese were using the recruiting function all the time, and that's what the devs said they would bring back to 2.0 later on. Rest of the world ignored it out of ignorance - just like the player search system.

Actually, the amount of people using it now is even less now than it was in 1.0

[EmSix]

It is not laziness, or a remnant from 1.0, or whatever.
Let's say everyone starts using the LFP tool and shouting goes away. What now?
I search, get the first 200 people on the list that meet my criteria. Great. Does this person want FATE? Do they want Praetorium? AK? Primals?
There is no separation for what the player is looking for party for, and it's hardly reasonable to expect the party leader to read every search comment and send a tell to every player that is LFP.
This is why shouting is currently the most efficient way to form a group. Until we have a way for people to flag themselves as searching for single (or multiple) forms of content, the LFP feature is useless.

[Warlyx]

It is not laziness, or a remnant from 1.0, or whatever.
Let's say everyone starts using the LFP tool and shouting goes away. What now?
I search, get the first 200 people on the list that meet my criteria. Great. Does this person want FATE? Do they want Praetorium? AK? Primals?
There is no separation for what the player is looking for party for, and it's hardly reasonable to expect the party leader to read every search comment and send a tell to every player that is LFP.
This is why shouting is currently the most efficient way to form a group. Until we have a way for people to flag themselves as searching for single (or multiple) forms of content, the LFP feature is useless.

u can add a comment in your search

LFP AK / CASTRUM / TITAN HM for example

it works like FFXI or other old LFG :P

and if u are looking for a lvl 50 TANK , i guess only 3-5 will be LFP at any given time , and reading 5 search comments is hard?

the LFP in FFXIV it works but ppl prefer to shout , because its instant message to the whole zone , u dont need to navigate menus....