Dungeon Finder WHY NOT-

[Gukswar]

you forgot a TON of ones :P

like uhhh "gear swapping" which is this week

I think content finder was two weeks ago...this guy just missed the boat....


course we have our weekly anima one......and so on lol

funny thing is all these things the Devs already talked about and we already know what they are going to do.....I guess some ppl just don't like it and see how like....world merger was changed through b*tching and they hope this will change through b*itching

I'am not bitching i'am pointing out the reason why content finder is a bad idea- although a great idea on the same time-

[Frein]

Instead of theorizing, I'll recount the actual effects of cross-server interaction as it happened in WoW.

We had a fantastic community on the WoW EU Vashj server. There was lots of friendly rivalry, everyone knew everyone and people actually tried to their best to triumph because they had a sense of pride in their community. Then we got cross-server battlegrounds and the transformation of the server was as rapid as it was dramatic: Suddenly you rarely saw familiar faces on the battleground, suddenly there would be bots, and suddenly people would intentionally lose a tough looking match to get another one started sooner. There was a complete morale collapse in both factions. But hey, our queue times vanished! I didn't have to wait but now there was nothing worth waiting for, either.

The old rivalries eventually faded as it became increasingly difficult to face your old enemies in battle. People started losing touch with the server community as a whole and EU Vashj fell into a slump. All the top guilds broke down and the players scattered to other servers, searching for new top guilds.

These were just the effects of cross-realm battlegrounds. Once the Dungeon Finder was introduced, people stopped socializing altogether and withdrew to their guild cliques. Those who had no guild large and strong enough to support their grouping needs had to resort to mixed server groups that rarely spoke, at least not in a positive tone (why bother when you'll never see the other guys again?), and where you'd easily get away with bad behaviour. The largest MMO in history was transformed into something more closely resembling Diablo, Guild Wars or Phantasy Star Online, except with gameplay less suited for it.

[JakeRoon]

Instead of theorizing, I'll recount the actual effects of cross-server interaction as it happened in WoW.

We had a fantastic community on the WoW EU Vashj server...... TLDR.

Your points are invalid as...this is not WoW, and we are not talking about PvP .....you are off topic by like +2

I am sorry cross server pvp killed your WoW community, but the insight you gained from that experience is only mildly applicable to this instance....

PPSO was a completely instanced game, again don't apply here....BUT you are assuming that PPSO and guild wars and diablo had bad commnities, and they don't /didn't...I made many friends in all those games ^^

[Sfarzoso]

I want that feature. Am tired to not have a lot to do on week. There's only dungeons OR farming. I rather do dungeons over and over till I puke or knock out and drink to much redbull to say "OMG MY HEART GONNA DIE!"

[Rokien]

I want that feature. Am tired to not have a lot to do on week. There's only dungeons OR farming. I rather do dungeons over and over till I puke or knock out and drink to much redbull to say "OMG MY HEART GONNA DIE!"

You can do that without CF?

[Sfarzoso]

You can do that without CF?

Fuck that people too busy to craft in Ul'dah!

[Vain]

I think the anima teleport is cool because it is an advantage for the casual player. If you load up on leves and teleport/return/teleport/return like a crazy person, you're going to run out of anima soon enough and it's going to take awhile to regenerate. I think immersion is important, but I do not enjoy running marathons on my chocobo.

It's nice knowing that if I don't want to play this game every waking moment of my life, I can get up, have a coffee, enjoy a bar of rested exp, and spend a few hours running leves and have it be easy and efficient.

That said, I don't really know anything about the dungeon finder :/
This game has also gotten LOADS better in the last... 6 months? A lot of interesting and thoughtful changes have been implemented recently, so I will trust the dev teams judgment for now until I see how it pans out myself.

[indira]

content finder in FFXIV will end up being alot of failed attempts like a getting a pickup party for stuff now. unless they make easier content which i think they will by the time 2.0 comes out, people will cry about the game being too hard when the ps3 verson finally comes out then SE will gimp everything so everyone can get everything in no time.

[Nuinn]

I'm sure I won't be the only one wanting to socialize on my own server. Besides, I can't really make any bonds with people who don't want to bond right now either. I've done some parties with people after the merge, most of which have been 'mute' as people either don't care to respond or just chit-chat while waiting for the party to form. From my own experience, it's not like right now random people care much about the social aspect beside getting into the party, grinding levels or content, leaving the party - and at least 5 out of the 8 won't say anything besides (Hello!) and (Thank you!)(Party)(See you again!). There's exceptions of course, and those kind of people are the ones I'm interested in within the community. I'd like to think the same kind of people would be found on the server post-content finder, if we ever get one.

I don't really consider it to have an 'organic' feel if I know about someone who I partied with but who never spoke or interacted with any of the other 7 players in a party. Really have no use or benefit to me seeing that person day in - day out running around Ul'dah and if I happen to party with them again still say nothing. But that's perhaps just me. . . .

[Wevlum]

As someone who accepts pickup shouts a lot for content rather than having an ls...I don't care if the people are from another server. Although studies show content finder will cause dalamud to impact us faster and harder.

Content finder or no content finder, from my server or not from my server...ultimately I'm still glaring at you for waking up my slept mob with all the intensity of a thousand suns and yes I do loathe your inner being D: