Comic for Friday 8/26 (Early High Res)
Added 2022-08-25 20:01:22 +0000 UTCI love Discord as an LFG tool for when I can't wrangle my friends for a game. In fact, some of my favorite people to game with are ones I originally met through LFG chat rooms for certain games.
But, I've seen the LFG sections go a little off the rails, too, in terms of what prerequisites people impose. Some of them I get, 18+, be casual or be sweaty, English or whatever; you want to let people know what sort of vibe you're looking for.
At some point I feel like it it starts getting silly though, like setting entry points in "number of hours played", as if that means anything.
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I swear it's like an arm's race. Mythic Plus had that issue in WoW, back when I still played it. You'd be a week into the season and and you'd already have people demanding rating scores that most players, even ones that take the content somewhat seriously, a month or two to hit. I feel like FFXIV solved it a bit, though. Rather than a group maker having the authority to admit or deny applicants directly, they create an advert with a given set of criteria, amongst the ones the game permits, and anyone that meets those criteria can join the group, with no approval necessary. And the most you can require even for quite hard content is that they person has cleared that content before (and then there are very regularly adverts for "prog" groups that are still working on clearing it for the first time). So to an extent, I think part of what leads to this is giving the person looking for peeps the ability to approve or deny applicants on whatever basis they want. In WoW, you'd put up an LFG advert and have 200+ applicants within a minute, many of whom were entirely unqualified for the group. And because you had the ability to admit whomever you wanted, you'd just pick amongst the list for whomever had the highest rating or itemlevel or w/e, meaning even if your advert didn't demand having ridiculous metrics, they'd be effectively enforced through shear mass anyway.
Kaedys
2022-08-25 20:29:18 +0000 UTCXD "Tell me you don't play online games without telling me you don't play online games"
Tim Buckley
2022-08-25 20:13:36 +0000 UTCBe Sweaty? Eh?
Shawn Spencer
2022-08-25 20:12:20 +0000 UTC
