"Content Finder" - Please be careful

[UmJammerSully]

The community of WoW and the community of FFXIV are very different and the stories you're telling us tell us more about what your average WoW player is like and not what the adverse effects of the dungeon finder are.

I party with random people all the time and 9 times out of 10 they are decent enough people. However, you are probably right about people not giving away drops they don't really need but that seems like a small price to pay to have a super quick partying system.

EDIT: For the record, I've never played WoW myself and I'm just going by what I've heard, which is probably unfair.

[Rhianu]

My personal experience with WOW's dungeon finder was the complete opposite. Aside from one out of every 40-50 groups, everyone was willing to both cooperate and talk if you were respectful and people were willing to work with me when I was new to a dungeon.

The trick, like anywhere else in life, is to be the first to be nice.

^This. If you're willing to just talk to people and listen, you'll find things will tend to go a lot smoother.

the stories you're telling us tell us more about what your average WoW player is like

Wow, way to discriminate. There are good and bad people in every community, and I'm honestly quite sick of everyone jumping on the "WoW players are all idiots" train. It's not true, and it never was. If everyone in WoW seemed like a jerk to you, it's probably because you were being a jerk to everyone else. Like Wolfie pointed out, people are willing to treat you with as much respect as you treat them. If you treat other people with respect, you will receive respect in return. It's that simple.