"Content Finder" - Please be careful

[Wolfie]

The obvious fallacy in this is that dicks exist with or without automated cross-server LFG. It's really only a convenient scapegoat for a bad community. In FFXI, supposedly the most mature and lovely community ever, people would get tossed out of groups for wearing gear that wasn't "optimal." People didn't get invites because of the job they chose to play. JP players would literally tell NA players, "JP only" despite there being a completely serviceable translator. People jacked items regularly. Most of the bad behavior in an MMO has nothing to do with a system like the Content Finder.

Rose tinted nostalgia glasses my friend. I bounced from MMO to MMO after having played FFXI for half a decade, and I found that almost all of the problems other MMOs' communities supposedly had were actually much milder. And FFXI, by comparison, was extremely cut-throat and people were extremely elitist and mean spirited, but they never let it show on the surface.

[Blarp]

Rose tinted nostalgia glasses my friend. I bounced from MMO to MMO after having played FFXI for half a decade, and I found that almost all of the problems other MMOs' communities supposedly had were actually much milder. And FFXI, by comparison, was extremely cut-throat and people were extremely elitist and mean spirited, but they never let it show on the surface.

Tossing players out of a group or berating them for wearing bad gear or, worse yet, not inviting them at all based on the "wrong" job is the exact same thing as tossing someone out of a group in WoW for doing terrible DPS, and it happened pretty regularly in XI. LS leaders and officers jacked LS banks and transferred. If a merit group was going bad, people would bitch and moan and point fingers or simply leave without saying a word. I think it's you who wears the rose tinted glasses.

Those type of people will exist with or without a Content Finder.

[Answa]

Tossing players out of a group or berating them for wearing bad gear or, worse yet, not inviting them at all based on the "wrong" job is the exact same thing as tossing someone out of a group in WoW for doing terrible DPS, and it happened pretty regularly in XI. LS leaders and officers jacked LS banks and transferred. If a merit group was going bad, people would bitch and moan and point fingers or simply leave without saying a word. I think it's you who wears the rose tinted glasses.

Those type of people will exist with or without a Content Finder.

I may be totally wrong here, but I think both of you are saying the same thing...