Dungeon Finder System - Whats the problem?

[Wolfie]

If people wanted to play with others on their server following the party finder being implemented, why would they want a party finder? Surely using a party finder is a method to party with people of other servers rather than their own? Sorry, a little confused, and perhaps a little naiive. xD

The dungeon finder in WOW helped fill out the last 1-2 party slots with random people, and choosing the "random dungeon" option offered you a minor reward.

[Starlord]

You know what I think? I think everyone is overreacting over the very very very very VERY Little info we have...

Dungeons and Primals are Instanced... THEY SHOULD BE IN A MMO!

Do we know anything else?

We have Open World.. whats going to be in the Open world? I'm sure they aren't just going to leave it there in the dust to rot... :/ I'm sure there's going to be a lot of questing involved, Grand Company missions, Free Company Missions, Frontline PvP.

Just refer to my Long post to see the details as to why I believe this is more than just an Instanced game!

Again all were doing is Over speculating, in which a lot of it is getting blown out of proportion!.. But that's the forums for ya right? :O

[Ruri]

Again all were doing is Over speculating, in which a lot of it is getting blown out of proportion!.. But that's the forums for ya right? :O

I haven't seen anyone blow anything out of proportion ever on these forums. /sarcasm

[Starlord]

I haven't seen anyone blow anything out of proportion ever on these forums. /sarcasm

Haha! "Color:White" You think I wouldn't Notice! :P hehe

[Cendres]

It really does hurt the community. Though I'm not going to cry too much because our community is pretty worthless as it is.

Everytime I've ever used a content finder in an MMO I never ever have spoken with the other party members. Also the social aspect of forming the party is removed. It also pushes MMOs closer to a First person shooter feel where all you do is sign up for a fight, Fight, win/lose, next fight. I thought MMOs were more than that.

Seem like you didn't need content finder to form an opinion of your community...........

[Excer]

Yes but theres nothing wrong with speculation, SE is showing us this info for a reason - to find out the playerbase's opinion. At least that's what I think, otherwise why only provide us with such a small amount of information?

There is nothing, from what I can remember reading, about any open world end game content. When I say this I mean zones like Sky, NMs, Besieged etc - with content finder we don't know to what extent it will be used which is where my concerns come from. As long as there is a fair balance between open/instanced and same-server/cross-server I will be fine with the implementation.

[Dianic]

I recently returned to FFXIV a couple weeks ago; started with a fresh character. Needless to say, I'm far behind my new linkshell friends who are downing Ifrit and the King on a regular basis.

My highest class right now is 39, and I can't recall a time where I've seen someone shout for an instance grp. This would be helpful for me in tracking down players w/ the same current goals.

Standing in Uldah (where everyone seems to cluster up on Durandal) and shouting is not my idea of "immersion." Biggest recent example of this same Failure = SWTOR.

[Vaer]

I say just deal with the dungeon finder. Whenever a "new MMO" released there are the exact same arguments as being said right now against AND for dungeon finder. This sounds like something YoshiP will not change his mind on. It benefits low population servers and non-peak server time activity. The benefits must outweigh the risks in YoshiP's mind.

All they have to do to promote community is add something like Blizzard's RealID (You don't have to show your full name anymore, battletags allows a username now) party. Say what you want about WoW, but that is an example of a great feature. It allows you to party with people on other servers of the same faction (no factions on FFXIV currently so this limitation doesn't exist at the moment) if you have them on your RealID list and queue for battlegrounds/dungeons/previous raid tiers together. You can still talk to them if they are the opposite faction. Made friends with someone doing a dungeon run? Ask them for their "RealID" details/authorization.

Besides, from what the community reps are saying, this is just for "instanced raids," this game won't completely turn into a lobby and queue game. Need more clarification on this feature.

[Cendres]

Standing in Uldah (where everyone seems to cluster up on Durandal) and shouting is not my idea of "immersion." Biggest recent example of this same Failure = SWTOR.

Hilariously enough there are people fighting in the SWTOR forums against group search because it would also 'ruin' the community... We all know it does not and we're all okay with it so far as to expect it because it was in XI.... Same thing with this dungeon/content finder thing. It's not the end of any universe.