Content Finder

[Jinko]

LOL, you don't need to preserve a reputation on different servers!~

Why not are these forums not a community ?

Elexia if the person in question is a Lalafell I'm not guna accuse a Miqo'te, besides maybe we can ask them to show our server name in brackets next to our name when we cross server.

Doesn't WoW do this anyway ?

[Elexia]

It necessarily won't follow you unless they tag you with what server you're from, but if like some MMOs with the system they just dump you in a lobby and only your name is present, it can't follow you because chances are there's at least 2 people with a common name you'll end up partying with.

It'll create a witch hunt and like the real world salem trials, people who weren't witches will get caught in the crossfire.

[Nabiri]

I honestly wish they would just stick with an in-world content finder only.. No other servers.
I don't like the thought of partying with people I'll never see again. I'd run the risk of meeting someone I like and want to be friends with, then not being able to play the game with them. That's just depressing.

IF I used it I wouldn't really talk to anyone because of the reasons above.
But it's not likely I'd use such a thing, unless there was a "search my server only" option for finding members.

It would be a shame if they didn't allow it to work just within your own server if you choose.


Edit: I suppose what I really want is a convenient/automatic? group finder for my own server. I don't even want to be teleported automatically to the instance (sigheverythingisinstanced ; ; ), I'd rather have to travel there and enjoy the world as I head off to my adventure.)

[Estellios]

Myself and many others are eagerly awaiting content finder. Pooling from more than one server expands the available amount of people and I think being able to log in the game at my leisure and quickly find a group and actually play the game easily takes precedence over anything else. As was stated this helps out smaller groups more than anything, you will still want a group of people you can rely on for tougher fights and especially for any large-scale content that requires more than one party.

I do hope we get the ability to add cross-server people to our friend lists, linkshells, and maybe even invite them to transfer to our server at some point.

[Choyi]

Myself and many others are dreading the arrival of a content finder. Being forced to use a system because its the easy route which majority will take, reducing servers to barren dead wastelands where everyone just afk in town while in que.
Migth as well play a single player game since any interaction with other players is moot and once grouped up with randoms inside the dungeon you'd be lucky if anyone responds to a "Hello", social ethics and bahviour goes out the window for many players when you are grouped up with complete strangers who you are unlikely to ever see again.

If this is the route they plan to take, they might just as well remove any open world zones and replace it with lobbies and hubs and get pretty much the same result.
So I'm against cross server content finder, todays MMOs feels lifeless enough as is, we don't need even more reasons for players to become asocial and foster the forever alone guy soloing mentality, and this is any loot issues put aside.

[Jinko]

Myself and many others are dreading the arrival of a content finder. Being forced to use a system because its the easy route which majority will take, reducing servers to barren dead wastelands where everyone just afk in town while in que.

Isn't much different than we have right now, people AFK on bots or just crafting in general.

It's all about consequences. If I'm from another server and am tanking Baat with your dungeon finder group, and MPK everyone in the party right before he dies (with my best friend's assistance), leave you all dead, kick you from the party, pop the chests and leave, what are you gonna do? Get on the forums and complain? lulz. Maybe 10 people from my actual server will notice.

It's for SE to provide a system where the leader can't just kick someone on a whim then, as I mentioned above WoW requires a majority vote from all players in the party to kick someone.

I dunno what peoples problem is really, you can still make friends on your own server and do content in linkshell, I know this will be my prefered avenue when making a party, but in those times when you just can't find the 7th or 8th person or just want to log in and do something quick, content finder is awesome.

I don't see this any different that shouting for a random in Ul'dah, you could end up with a complete Ahole or someone nice, the only difference is perhaps you can't be friends afterwards but like I say plenty more people to be friends with on your own server.

[Choyi]

Isn't much different than we have right now, people AFK on bots or just crafting in general.

What we have now is about as far away from a healthy a thriving MMO with a larger playbase you can come though.
And one can assume the idea behind 2.0 relaunch aims to remedy that by rekindling the public intresst in the game and recruting alot of new players to populate the servers.

[Jinko]

What we have now is about as far away from a healthy a thriving MMO with a larger playbase you can come though.
And one can assume the idea behind 2.0 relaunch aims to remedy that by rekindling the public intresst in the game and recruting alot of new players to populate the servers.

Thats besides the point, chances are this game will never be huge like WoW so the chances of meeting the same person more than twice in a content finder would be much higher.

As Sylvari said above if SE have something like RealID players can keep in touch with one another even if they are on different servers, I'm sure they could programme it to even play with that person again if you wanted.

It's 2012 gaming and servers in general are a lot more open than they used to be.

It's innovative idea's like cross server content finders that blur the lines and will eventually allows all to play together regardless of server.

[Chardrizard]

- There is no different between strangers from other server and your current server, they are strangers.

- There is also no reason social ethics and behavious will goes out of the window for many players, people acts the way they do to strangers whether they are from other or your current server, if people were douches, they will stay douches. People don't just become a douche.


- How in the world does this foster the forever alone guy soloing mentality when the whole reason to queue for content finder is to play with another people because apparently this forever alone guy's server arent able to provide that? Nobody would be using cross server finder if there were plenty of things going on at the server, but that isn't the way it is.

[Mychael]

- There is no different between strangers from other server and your current server, they are strangers.

Disagree. FFXIV servers are like small towns. If you do something worthy of not in your small town, people will tell people, even if they don't know you personally. If you go one of the other ten small towns around the world and do something worthy of note, that small town might find out about it, but chances are no one you regularly speak to will ever know.

- There is also no reason social ethics and behavious will goes out of the window for many players, people acts the way they do to strangers whether they are from other or your current server, if people were douches, they will stay douches. People don't just become a douche.

It's all about consequences. If I'm from another server and am tanking Baat with your dungeon finder group, and MPK everyone in the party right before he dies (with my best friend's assistance), leave you all dead, kick you from the party, pop the chests and leave, what are you gonna do? Get on the forums and complain? lulz. Maybe 10 people from my actual server will notice.

- How in the world does this foster the forever alone guy soloing mentality when the whole reason to queue for content finder is to play with another people because apparently this forever alone guy's server arent able to provide that? Nobody would be using cross server finder if there were plenty of things going on at the server, but that isn't the way it is.

Agreed on this one, partially. It's not so much a result of there not being enough to do, imo. In fact, the more things there are, the less people will be doing the thing you need (as many will be doing the plethora ofother things). The problem is more that there's no reason for anyone to keep doing the limited number of things there are.