Quote Originally Posted by Thawed View Post
I completely see the validity of both these points, but I feel like Jinkos argument is probably more pertinent to the idea of necessity. Just like some one said the environments work, although bland--so do Linkshells. I feel a working party search feature would aid players more at the moment. It would make grouping so much more accessible, especially new players--who I hate to say are the target audience at this point. SE wants to get more people into the game and having an easy way to group with others would be a great way to get new players started and meeting people, which is the whole point of an MMO at the end of the day.
Well if more want Search system then that obviously is the more important one as its more demanded, and I always think that higher demand should be prioritized as it will make the masses happy. I just dislike that there is at least some option/subsidy for the party feature where as LS has nothing right now.

But if I look at it at a programming stand point, the party system needs a lot less work it would seem as they've at least got it half working and know exactly how to proceed when they mentioned doing something similar to XI, so hopefully it will not be a long, long task, and we may even see both PT search and LS fixes within the next major patch.

@Munba I hope so!