On my hands and knees begging!

[Veonix]

Please reconsider implementing a dungeon finding tool. It cripples communities and gives no reason for exploration. We will find the majority of the player base sitting in the towns queuing for dungeons and that's it. Just take a gander at what majority of players do at max level in Rift and WoW. I know because i have been there in both games. Why make such a beautiful game basically lobby based. The reason i play and love FFXIV is because its unique to today's mainstream standards of a mmorpg.

But this is me saying if you do decide to put in such a horrible system you will not have my support.

[Sephrick]

Please reconsider implementing a dungeon finding tool. It cripples communities and gives no reason for exploration. We will find the majority of the player base sitting in the towns queuing for dungeons and that's it. Just take a gander at what majority of players do at max level in Rift and WoW. I know because i have been there in both games. Why make such a beautiful game basically lobby based. The reason i play and love FFXIV is because its unique to today's mainstream standards of a mmorpg.

But this is me saying if you do decide to put in such a horrible system you will not have my support.

As opposed to sitting in town spamming /sh?

[Veonix]

Can you really sit there and tell me that dungeon finding tools are good for communities? How about hoping onto your chocobo and running to dungeons/popular farm spots/beastmen camps. Seeing if current parties have any room get to know the people that are active on your server and making new friendships. Isn't that what made us fall in love with MMORPG's to begin with. I don't know if it was for you but surely for me.

[Sephrick]

Can you really sit there and tell me that dungeon finding tools are good for communities? How about hoping onto your chocobo and running to dungeons/popular farm spots/beastmen camps. Seeing if current parties have any room get to know the people that are active on your server and making new friendships. Isn't that what made us fall in love with MMORPG's to begin with. I don't know if it was for you but surely for me.

I have a linkshell. Don't need to do either of those.

In XI and XIV the standard has been that you don't leave town till you have a full party. So riding where ever and shouting there for a group will likely net you few invites than staying in town and shouting.

I think you're over thinking this whole thing. Why can't you talk to people with which you get auto-grouped?

[Veonix]

How are you going to keep friendships in game when the people you get grouped with are cross servers. Correct me if i am wrong but they did say it would be cross server no? And let me ask you have you done dungeon finder in WoW recently? People rarely talk in them let alone everyone is from a different server. Most of my parties i have been in FFXIV have been in the open world. I don't even recall joining a party formed with in city walls.

[Zenaku]

I have to agree with the OP in WoW i want to keep playing with friend i meet in dungeon finder but they not in the same world so we have to make a char on there world which is not bad because you know it's wow but this is not wow. I can't make other char just to level up with them i have thing to do within my own char.

Why can't dungeon finder be just for your world? not other worlds i think that better then allow us to party with other worlds.

[Physic]

the intention is a little different in that, he implied there will be a lot more cross server activity, so it wont just be a dude you can never see again, it will actually be a dude you can do multiple things with.

Of course at this point its only his plans, we dont know if he can really build that type of archtechture.

his key phrase is worldless, if it works, it will probably be really good

[Claire_Pendragon]

This has been beaten to death. (in other threads)
INSTEAD of removing a feature...
why not IMPROVE previous areas with new features?
this way we have both.

(Aka a world system that encourages playing outside of dungeons, but leaving dungeons as an option to those with less time to play.)

[Reliquia]

A dungeon finder would make it a lot easier to get content done, but I have to agree with the OP here, it cripples the community. Worst part is making friends cross servers, that's pretty much a slap in the face from SE.

[Sephrick]

Why not then make the suggestion that you can invite specific people from other servers instead of crying foul and trying to shut it down?

That way, your friendships aren't limited to just your server?