Originally Posted by
muchtoohigh
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Im not questioning that some players shy away from the responsibility, im saying that it might be unwise to cater the game to such players.
What criteria do you use to define LFD tools as a "smash success"? The fact that people use them? Of course they use them, they are easy. Easy is not always good. I hated the LFD tool in WoW, but I used it rather then look for people in trade for the simple reason that no one was interested in forming a manual group anymore, in large part because people wanted the free teleport to the dungeon rather then having to fly there. I was a user of the LFD tool and contributor to their statistical popularity, yet I was strongly opposed to it.
Popularity is a dangerous tool to use to evaluate a system that doesn't have any real competitor. Players will always take the path of least resistance, and the LFD tool is most definitely that. But I think this is a case where players need to be saved from themselves; the fast, easy convenience is so destructive to the community that its simply not worth it, imo.