{"id":1398,"date":"2006-06-22T01:45:43","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T08:45:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-06-22T02:06:53","modified_gmt":"2006-06-22T09:06:53","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/node\/1398\/","title":{"rendered":"Clueless about mmorpgs (LFG global channel)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People all over the internet are ranting about the global LFG channel introduced with the latest patch (1.11.0. btw, I updated the <a href=\"\/drupalx\/wow-repository\">repository<\/a>) in WoW. For example <a href=\"http:\/\/tobolds.blogspot.com\/2006\/06\/how-not-to-improve-communication.html\">Tobold<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fohguild.org\/forums\/mmorpg-general-discussion\/23372-global-lfg-channel-what-deuce.html\">FoH<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As they say: <i>&#8220;the sacred cow of the retard rocks has been slaughtered&#8221;<\/i>. Referring to the previous clueless idea of the &#8220;meeting stones&#8221;. This one about creating a server-wide LFG channel surpassed its stupidity. After MONTHS passed saying that they were actively working on a better solution they definitely deserve some mockery if this is the result.<\/p>\n<p>Quite interesting because with all the praises that WoW&#8217;s design receives and deserves, they still cannot get right something as simple and trivial as a LFG system.<\/p>\n<p>My <a href=\"\/drupalx\/node\/1299\">previous article<\/a> on this topic couldn&#8217;t be more actual.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>In the past I wrote that you can guess the quality of the design in a mmorpg from its LFG system and I still believe there is some truth in that claim. I always considered these tools as the real core of these games and I think they should be the starting point from where you design a new game. Not a feature that you consider later on, but the very first one around which the rest of the game is built.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While the debate goes on about things belonging to the previous century, let me remind you the *essential*:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>It is fundamental for a LFG system to let you search specifically for groups already formed and active (both full or <acronym title=\"Looking For More\">LFM<\/acronym>)<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People all over the internet are ranting about the global LFG channel introduced with the latest patch (1.11.0. btw, I updated the repository) in WoW. For example Tobold and FoH. As they say: &#8220;the sacred cow of the retard rocks has been slaughtered&#8221;. Referring to the previous clueless idea of the &#8220;meeting stones&#8221;. This one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-1398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-wow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}