Content Finder

[Jinko]

so getting people to the action fast is exactly why people didn't necessarily consider GW1 an MMO because it had that idea in mind, take out what made an MMO an MMO and just put players into the action.

Yes but GW2 is a proper open world MMO with content you can join at a click of a button.

Just like in Rift you run up to a group fighting a Rift and you can join the party at a click of a button, public quests are the future of MMO's.

Some of those huge Dragon bosses in GW2 look frikkin amazing, you just turn up and join a party and kick its ass.

[Zumi]

Zumi, that's because most established players are already done with everything or most everything or only does things with their LS. So a content finder won't change that honestly. XIV doesn't "need" it to be honest because it's still an MMO, taking out all work is the last thing they need to do lol.

They merely just need to add more content for all ranges or reasons to replay certain content. The merge will also help with this, so getting people to the action fast is exactly why people didn't necessarily consider GW1 an MMO because it had that idea in mind, take out what made an MMO an MMO and just put players into the action.

That doesn't fly with me. If I bought a game and paying for it I should be able to play it right? I don't get what people like you have agaisnt other people seeing and doing the content a game has to offer? Basically if I am paying for a game I want to play it. Having the game find people to play with isn't making it easy. The difficulty of a game should not be finding people to play with that is just silly. The difficult part should be killing fighting mob in dungeons and killing bosses.

This isn't 10 years ago queue systems and matchmaking are what is expecting in current gen games.

[Elexia]

I don't get what people like you have agaisnt other people seeing and doing the content a game has to offer?

Hmm, pretty sure I explicitly stated:

They merely just need to add more content for all ranges or reasons to replay certain content.

You can't be against doing content, if you specifically states a game need more content and a reason to redo previous content.

[Firon]

I still don't get the hate with content finder. If they don't let you choose what classes you want to join when you flag up then i would not use it, but weather you guys like it or not its gonna be here in 2.0.

[Jinko]

They way it normally works Firon is you select the role you want to play, So Tank, DD or Healer and then get stuck in a queue.

[Zumi]

I still don't get the hate with content finder. If they don't let you choose what classes you want to join when you flag up then i would not use it, but weather you guys like it or not its gonna be here in 2.0.

I never seen this feature work that way where you pick people you want. You can enter the queue with friends but not pick people out of it.

In most mmos that have this it almost always works like this. People pick the roles they can or want to do, tank, healer or damage dealer then enter the queue with a button on their UI. They are put into a pool of players across all servers. FFXIV's case the game could put a group together with 1 tank 5 damage dealers and 2 healers for example. They have a match making server that matchs people in that pool with others. The game tells you when a group is formed a prompt pops up to tell inform you and you can hit enter then you are teleported to the instance on a instance server with the other people the matchmaking server has found for you.

You then proceeded to kill mobs and bosses in the dungeon with your new party members.

[Firon]

They way it normally works Firon is you select the role you want to play, So Tank, DD or Healer and then get stuck in a queue.

I mean the classes i'm looking for. You know the first party search we had i like that one but no one would use it. The old search i could say i wanted 3 Pgl 4 THMs and a Gla to join my pt and only those classes join, no more than 3 pgl and 4 thm's and 1 gla.

[Firon]

I never seen this feature work that why where you pick people you want. You can enter the queue with friends but not pick people out of it.

In most mmos that have this it almost always works like this. People pick the roles they can or want to do, tank, healer or damage dealer then enter the queue with a button on their UI. They are put into a pool of players across all servers. FFXIV's case the game could put a group together with 1 tank 5 damage dealers and 2 healers for example. They have a match making server that matchs people in that pool with others. The game tells you when a group is formed a prompt pops up to tell inform you and you can hit enter then you are teleported to the instance on a instance server with the other people the matchmaking server has found for you.

You then proceeded to kill mobs and bosses in the dungeon with your new party members.

Yeah but we had this feature but no one used See above post.

[Jinko]

I mean the classes i'm looking for. You know the first party search we had i like that one but no one would use it. The old search i could say i wanted 3 Pgl 4 THMs and a Gla to join my pt and only those classes join, no more than 3 pgl and 4 thm's and 1 gla.

Yea I doubt it will work that way, I imagine they will keep it as roles so it makes it fair across the board.

It will probably mean less stacking of specific jobs, of course people can switch jobs once they are in the instance after some discussion.

Its not like what we had previously either.

You click a button > click the role(s) you want to play > everyone gets put in a queue > server matches up 1 tank, 5 DD and 2 healers > enter dungeon.

[Zumi]

I mean the classes i'm looking for. You know the first party search we had i like that one but no one would use it. The old search i could say i wanted 3 Pgl 4 THMs and a Gla to join my pt and only those classes join, no more than 3 pgl and 4 thm's and 1 gla.

Most likely they would not let you do that because of class discrimination and class stacking which they wouldn't want. The goal is to get everyone though the queue fast.