Quote Originally Posted by viion View Post
It is all good saying "i wish more used it", and "just read this guide on how to do it". You should not need to read a guide to do use it, it should be self explanatory, it should be simple, with less options and less clutter. The Search in Party needs to be removed as its confusing having 2.
Well... no offense.. but I didn't require a guide to understand how to use both. People nowadays just stare at the screen for 1-2 seconds, say "I don't get it" and move on.

That's not the reason most people aren't using it though. At release, the recruiting system wasn't used because it was an unusual implementation, with people only having control over which classes can join, not who can join. So people resorted to shouts instead and invited manually.

Fast forward to the implementation of the party search system. People formed a habit of shouting, so even though now they got their LFG flags they whined about to SE, barely anyone uses it, because you can "just shout".

tl;dr: party search/recruit isn't useless, it's the community that chose not to use them. I do try to teach new players to first use search, then shout, but it's not changing much. I can imagine new servers will change that, in fact, when I tested Ragnarok, there were like 50 people seeking for party through it. On Hyperion, it's 0-5 most of the time.