Hello forum the following was what i posted in reply to someones thread.
About what he thought were reasons for lost subs in wow, this is one of the ideas i stick by to this day.
As it pertains to Swtor, i wanted to know what the current mmo champ swtor fans think about the dungeon finder.
What do you think about the Random Dungeon finder mmo's eventually come up with now?
What ive noticed is before the game gets a system if the game is multi server people have to find a common area or channel (swtor lacks a trade chat) and find ppl to run the dungeon with on the same server.
When the group does a good run people add the tank and healer to friendslist etc, sometimes even invite them to guilds.
Later people will use the friendslist to find people who like doing the same activity dungeons pvp etc.
Guilds were jokingly called the extended friendslist or friend channel.
After you add the Random system, initially its all good people talk chat get to know each other, till they realise they cant ever play again.
And then you go silent ignoring whats said /quit if you die too much or outright being insulting to people over your countless wipes.
Random Dungeon finder is now killing rift, I quit after the first month it was not in game, dungeons were /trade groups.
But then during the 6 month half birthday free week, I tried the random dungeon and just like in wow they are already at the silent stage.
SwTor currently has no /trade that links major worlds.
And in /who has a comment you use to say your looking for a group, and an icon by your name flagging you as looking for a group.
Is it perfect hell no, but you play with people on your server people you can play with again chat trade with and play the game together.
/cheer to bioware for knowing whats good whats bad and not caving in to the vocal minority.