Quote Originally Posted by Jeeqbit View Post
Trying to ignore Discord is like trying to ignore YouTube, Google, Facebook and other super popular apps. I suppose you can but... you know they are there, and you'll keep hearing about them.
To be honest, I just see it as a necessary evil at this point. Personally I do not want to see SE add "their version of discord" in the game cause like you said, no one would use it. What I would like to see is better tools to organise content that requires a large amount of players.

I mentioned Rival Wings organising in my previous post. For the people that are unaware, this is a 48 man PvP mode that does not have a roulette or ranked mode attached to it. The only way to make it pop is having the community come together and organise specific times and dates to play this. The in game tools for this are absolutely horrendous. As someone who organised these for 5 years, I had to go around every populated area spamming shout macros while using the shitty teleport and world travel interfaces. It was also common for us to have to use the pvp tab in the party finder to advertise, something that is technically not allowed in the party finder I admit but what choice do we have? If it was not for discord supplementing these efforts, I am sure it would have never popped at all. I just want to see better in game features to let players organise these things more intuitively.

I do not organise large scale raids like the chaotic raid or BA/DRS but I am sure people that organise those have similair issues, which is why they resort to discord. Basically my point is that discord should stay a supplement to the game rather than a necessity, especially with large scale content (20+ people).