Petition: Don't implement Content Finder!

[Nabiri]

If we have to have a content finder I wish it wouldn't be cross-server.
I would be interested to see something work only within the server.
I would rather make friends here. I won't bother talking to those from other servers who I may end up liking then won't get to be friends with. I would rather see our server community socializing and helping each other.

[Nabiri]

SE can alleviate content finder cons by actually restricting NEW content (defined as content in the past two patches) to be available to a content finder grouping via server residents only. After two patches pass, those dungeons/instances/content become available to cross-server grouping.

I've never thought of this and I think it's a pretty brilliant idea actually. :3
So we'd get to play with our communities.. and then when the content is perhaps less popular people still have an easy time finding others. I like it. Server first, then others for back up later.

[b0ats]

This is almost as bad as the anima removal NPC thread lololol

[CSLionheart]

It makes me feel so warm and fuzzy inside when someone makes one of those "petition against [x]" or "implement this now!!!1" threads, thinking they have a great idea, only to have the entire community make them look like a complete idiot, because in reality their idea is terrible. Seriously. It brightens up my day. Especially since I see it coming 99% of the time.

[Allcars]

If this is anything like the one in wow, FFXIV will become a lets sit in town and Queue, exploring the world and playing the game is to much work, so in town we craft and use it as a chat room while we wait for the game.

It is the stupiest thing in the world. Players never leave town in wow they don't do anything but sit on their mounts and fly back and forth from the AH to the bank. If there is going to be a Content search at least make people run out to the content. Thank you for reading.

[Jeffdogg]

If this is anything like the one in wow, FFXIV will become a lets sit in town and Queue, exploring the world and playing the game is to much work, so in town we craft and use it as a chat room while we wait for the game.

It is the stupiest thing in the world. Players never leave town in wow they don't do anything but sit on their mounts and fly back and forth from the AH to the bank. If there is going to be a Content search at least make people run out to the content. Thank you for reading.

What would be the difference between using the content finder and sitting in town /sh for "LFM <insert dungeon/raid here> need tanks/DD's/healers pst"? At least with the content finder you can leave town while searching or trying to find one to join. W/O it your grounded in town waiting.

[Allcars]

What would be the difference between using the content finder and sitting in town /sh for "LFM <insert dungeon/raid here> need tanks/DD's/healers pst"? At least with the content finder you can leave town while searching or trying to find one to join. W/O it your grounded in town waiting.

Part of the problem is, when you go and form parties with players on your server, it builds community, you know your players, you know their skill, you know who they are, you know if they are jerks or whatnot. When you group of with random players, a lot of players don't care how they act, are complete jerk because they figure they will never see you again. They vote kick if you question then and most of the time the vote is passed because people don't care they just want to hurry up and get it over with. You want to play with a good community, and to build this I would stick with players from my own server.

The immersion aspect is also important, it is kind of lame when your Queue pops and you just appear in the instance ready to fight and get gear. In wow so many people have no idea where instances are any more, they know if they just press the dungeon finder button they get easy loot. When you don't get auto teleported around players explore the world.
MMOs are like theme parks, and if they have an option that lazy players are willing to skip to save some time, the world becomes a lot smaller to them.

They are cheated themselves out of the MMO experience by not playing the game because they are "too lazy".


I hope that makes sense I do understand a content find is what a lot of mmos are moving toward, in theory it is good, but in practice it stagnates the world.

[Jeffdogg]

It does make sense and I do agree with you mostly on those aspects. But the FF community is not like WoW's, most of us tend to be more cultured and mature. Just because WoW content finder is how it is doesn't mean FFXIV's will be the same. There can be options to check to join a fresh raid or enter one thats already in progress. Maybe they can implement a sort of log to display that raids progress etc... WoW is the fast food of MMO's thats why it is how it is, but it doesnt mean FFXIV and other MMO's will be like that if they implement similar things such as the content finder.

[Jinko]

If we have to have a content finder I wish it wouldn't be cross-server.
I would be interested to see something work only within the server.
I would rather make friends here. I won't bother talking to those from other servers who I may end up liking then won't get to be friends with. I would rather see our server community socializing and helping each other.

If SE added something like realID we could chat cross server and party up again if we felt like it.

Technology is always moving forward and new cross server techniques are being found, its down to SE how far they want to take this idea.

[StateAlchemist]

Screw some stupid content finder. You know what content finder is? It's a tool for scrubs and losers who have no friends and are too anti social to join a decent linkshell to still be able to go on a dungeon run. If your life is that bad you need to fing do something besides play a game you obviously fail at.

Seriously I absolutely refuse to run dungeons with randoms. Why in the hell would I want a feature that pairs me up with randoms from another server? Add it to the game if you want, but don't be surprised if you get laughed at for using it. And defintely don't qq about all the scrub parties you get from it.