So you showed me one guy who started out by whining that his 10-man raid was "downgraded" to a 5-man heroic and then after asking that it be reinstated as a 10-man he asked for a LFD feature to go with it. What's you've neglected to point out is the nine "NO!!!" posts that immediately followed it. Here are the highlights from each of these posts:
- how do you expect that will happen in raids. lets say nefarian 10 man i dont see a plate dps volunteer for kiting adds. or ascedant council i dont see randoms quit dps on 27% to wait till the other mob is at the same %. if this comes treu i think it would be a verry big mess.
- Just no. If you put LFD on raids you will get random people from all levels of the game who feel entitled to completing the raid they enter. Therefore will be asking for nerfs, because PuG-s can't handle the complexity of raid encounters at this time due to the lack of organization and the very very diverse skill and preparation of the people you meet already in LFD...
- THE worst idea of all time.
- 0/10
- There are people in this game who would not be able to beat 5 man content without being carried through it EG; DPS who can only deal 5-6k damage with a 15% buff while in full 346 gear. These are the people who you would be raiding with.
- The chances of you getting at least 2 random retards who can't see the supergiant star that's going to hit them in 30 seconds is pretty high when you random 9 other people. You simply will fail the vast majority of any random 10 man raid, in my opinion.
- PUGs do not have Ventrillo. Hence they will fail raids.
- It'd be a massive mess given the co-ordination the fights need being beyond most puglings, i may have worked for WotLK but for cata it isnt possible.
- LFD for raids? no. not atleast this way.
Then there was one guy who was trying to argue that PvP gear was just as good as raiding gear so you can't even take him seriously. Even back then people warned that it would be a crappy idea. If Blizzard was really taking their queues from the forums they wouldn't have bothered with LFR. Let me also point out that as stupid as the idea was, it was still better than the actual implementation in that he was calling for a 10-man instance, not the 25-man zergfest that they implemented.