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Theres no friendship being made when you can't find 5 people to actually do the instance.
diaf.

Also, the rest of us who don't have an emotional, sacred bond with the rest of our group members will welcome the change.

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i concur

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So not only do you want them to remove a feature they already spent the resources coding, you also want them to force other players to transfer to new realms because you don't like the new feature?

It's optional. Don't like it? Don't use it.

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Saying "Don't use it" is unrealistic. Everyone will be using it, forcing me to untilize it as well.

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I think that this change will cause me to get divorced, to lose my job, to start doing drugs, and to beat my kids. The stress of having to pug once per day is just too much for me to handle. My eye is already starting to twitch just thinking about it. Sure, you guys say that these pugs are optional, but you get specific badges for them! This is crazy, just crazy. This change will absolutely destroy this game. I'm sure that people will just abandon their guilds because guilds will no longer be necessary.

The end of WoW is near. :(

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No, the reward is for doing random dungeon, not pugging for them.

Only the money reward is for pugging, not the emblems.

Cross-Realm Instances are an excellent new option. If you don't want to do it, you are not forced to do so.

If your entire server agrees with you and is amazing and wonderful and happy and full of rainbows and hugs, then you won't need to use this option. Be happy you live in the wonderful land of Oz.

As clearly demonstrated by most of the posters in this thread, a lot of other people welcome this option.

I don't play the game to make lasting e-friendships.

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I think that this change will cause me to get divorced, to lose my job, to start doing drugs, and to beat my kids. The stress of having to pug once per day is just too much for me to handle. My eye is already starting to twitch just thinking about it. Sure, you guys say that these pugs are optional, but you get specific badges for them! This is crazy, just crazy. This change will absolutely destroy this game. I'm sure that people will just abandon their guilds because guilds will no longer be necessary.

The end of WoW is near. :(

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haha. Best post of the day.

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No, the reward is for doing random dungeon, not pugging for them.

Only the money reward is for pugging, not the emblems.

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Don't try to combat my ridiculous whining with reason. I won't listen to it. The sky is falling, I tell you!

Didn't you just see someone say that the PTR urinated on his dog? This cross-server thing is getting really serious. We need Glenn Beck and Keith Olberman to team up to rid this world of impending doom.

"Hell no we won't cross! Hell no we won't cross! Hell no we won't cr..."

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Theres no friendship being made when you can't find 5 people to actually do the instance.
diaf.

Also, the rest of us who don't have an emotional, sacred bond with the rest of our group members will welcome the change.

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Win.

I cannot WAIT for this.

*I'll join the LFG queue while doing my dailies. Probably do 2 or 3 quick heroics while doing my dailies. I finish my dailies in about double or triple the time. (So about 2 hours to 3 hours). But I finish with 2 Emblems of frost, and like 4 Emblems of Triumph. Then, I can exchange them ALL for Emblems of Heroism to finish my BoA collection! Muwahahahahahaahahaha!*

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"Hell no we won't cross! Hell no we won't cross! Hell no we won't cr..."

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Damn, good point. Just think how hard it will be to organize CR with a cross-server pug. What if they just log before helping you fight to get your corpse back? That happened to me once on an Efreeti raid in 1999. You need to be on the same server as your group mates to pressure them into helping you (even if they have to stay up till 4 in the morning to do so).

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Saying "Don't use it" is unrealistic. Everyone will be using it, forcing me to untilize it as well.

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So your argument is that although they worked hard to develop it and everyone is going to use it, you have a problem with it so they should eighty-six it.

That's a really compelling argument, right there. I can't imagine how they could possibly not see things your way.

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It's optional. Don't like it? Don't use it.

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This, I suppose.

I xferred to a new server recently. Started tanking regular pugs. Met people. Joined a guild. It's a great guild.




If all instances were cross-realm, i could not have done this. But they're not. It's fine. Don't like it? Don't do it. All is right with the world.

The biggest benefit for this, which shouldn't suprise anyone after Blizzard stated they were doing things to help new players will be new players. People who otherwise would have zero chance to see RFC, WC, RFK and so on. This will allow them to find groups and it works similar to how the bg queues work now. You sign up and continue to quest when you get a group you are teleported to the instance and then you get to go back after you finish. For low level PvP it created battlegrounds with people in it because you didn't have to leave and go to your major city in order to queue.

I'll still personally run with my guild and most people on my server. But for those days when I need a group or want to run something and can't find any people running this could be a great tool. Stop looking at the negative of it all.

My parole officer says I can't cross realm because I am not permitted to socialize with anyone from the state of Texas under my parole terms.

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Cross Realm instancing is a terrible idea.

The current system, limited to your server, creates friendships, forges bonds, and allows people to know who and who not to group up with. If this is taken out of the game, people will be unable to make new friendships that will be able to be carried out of the instance portal.

So what if it allows groups to form faster? It will destroy a Realm's Identity, and prevents people from forming lasting friendships. Keep (almost) everything else, but remove this.

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People who care about community and realm identity don't play this game anymore.

I think cross realm instancing will speed up my PUGs considerably.
And with the laptop issues I have that prevent me from spending an hour waiting for instances, this actually might give me a chance to gear up.

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The Looking For Group channel will return in patch 3.3. If you wish to run dungeons with players on your realm, you can use the Looking For Group channel in any major city to create the party.

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oh hello floating skull of wisdom. How are you today?

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Cross Realm instancing is a terrible idea.

The current system, limited to your server, creates friendships, forges bonds, and allows people to know who and who not to group up with. If this is taken out of the game, people will be unable to make new friendships that will be able to be carried out of the instance portal.

So what if it allows groups to form faster? It will destroy a Realm's Identity, and prevents people from forming lasting friendships. Keep (almost) everything else, but remove this.

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And what if your "realm's identity" is that of a sociopath?

The community on my server is, for the most part, the most unfriendly, humourless bunch I've come across on the handful of realms I've tried. I stay because my RL friends are here and picking up and moving elsewhere would be far too costly. I'm looking forward to PuG-ing instances again where there's the off chance that the folks I'm playing with are capable of managing a simple greeting, let alone having a chuckle while we go through the run.

Sure, there's no guarantee that the people I get matched up with will be any more interesting or enjoyable to be around, but the odds are in my favor that cross-realm random groups will turn out to be an improvement.

Two thumbs up.

(Apologies to you folks on my realm that aren't two-dimensional grindbots with a chip the size of Rhode Island on your shoulder and an ego to match. I know you're out there but you probably keep a low profile like myself.)

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The Looking For Group channel will return in patch 3.3. If you wish to run dungeons with players on your realm, you can use the Looking For Group channel in any major city to create the party.

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Will there be any way to join the channel when NOT in a city? I know I prefer to go out and mine or something rather than sit around twiddling my thumbs while waiting for a group,