For me, my involvement is about the fun I have, hopefully with friends but solo is ok too as is meeting new people. Waiting for groups in Imp Fleet is just too boring. Sorry. Soloing through the quests with no chance of getting an instance group is also getting boring. I appreciate that some of you are different, either you love spamming, habitually hang around Imp Fleet doing nothing or have 5 bajillion friends the same level. But for me the lack of a LFD tool is significantly effecting the amount of fun I can have with this software. I've canceled, put lack of a LFD tool as the reason I canceled and probably won't play for at least 6 months. At that point if BW have introduced this functionality (which seems likely) I'll come back and play the game I want to play. I can wait. I'm patient. And if things don't work out my way that's fine too.

OK here's what I want to do: - indicate I'd like to play a particular Flashpoint. - play the game and forget about flashpoint-related admin until I get a message saying my group is ready. Here's what I don't want to do: - stand around Imp Fleet for an hour spamming - do /who for my level and send off fifty whispers - maintain a Friends list of tanks and healers. My friends list is for, duh, friends. Here are the arguments that don't persuade me: - chat spam improves community. It hasn't at all for me, apart from people in my guild I can't even name another player on my server off the top of my head. I've done a lot of flashpoints but it's mostly low level and it's mostly people's alts. Even if I friended them I wouldn't get to play with them tomorrow as they'd probably be on a different character. In a game where everyone is supposed to alt, Friends lists don't work. - LFD systems encourage worse behaviour. Now historically this might have been true but it isn't true now. Modern players pressurise you to speed up, whine about your gear, occasionally ninja and sometimes bail halfway. This happens all the time with the current system. WoW inherited players trained by EQ's forced grouping system to not be jerks. SWTOR is inheriting people trained by WoW and IT WONT CHANGE THEIR BEHAVIOUR in a month. It's just designers trying to play social engineer with the player base. It's egotistical and it won't work. Few of us care enough about this game to fundamentally change the way we interact with others online. We'll just go. - "I get on fine without a LFD system". Great. I'm happy for you. I hope you continue to have fun without a LFD system when the rest of us are gone. - "You can flag yourself as LFG". I do this and I have never got a whisper asking me to join a group in a month of playing.

It's standard functionality to anyone whose point of comparison is post-2008 WoW. Which is probably around 80% of players here.

These same old responses are getting awfully tired. Get a guild, find friends, re-spec or re-roll healer. In the end players will gravitate towards what works simplest for them and what I've done is cancel, to possibly come back when there's a LFD tool in the game. I could build up social contacts but I'm just not that enthusiastic. I could wait at the zone in spamming for hours but I don't enjoy that. I actually have re-rolled but it's just as bad. My friend and I did Black Talon as tank and healer with level 11s and we couldn't fill the group (on one of the heaviest populated servers). Also if you step back from individual solutions you'll see that the system is flawed. If the spread is 5% tanks, 5% healers, 90% dps then the best grouping outcome is that 20% of players can find groups and 80% of players can't even with perfect communication. Anyway I've canceled. SWTOR is a good massively single player game but I'm just not that into single player games any more.

Imo having to spam chat is about as much fun as having to queue for an hour to log in. If Bioware don't want to introduce a LFG Tool until the game "matures" they may find half the players have left by the time it's done.

I'm an old school gamer who's played for years and formed groups many times by /w people on the Who tool and frankly it's over-rated. I don't need to be educated in how to form a group. I know. I just can't be bothered, not least because the flashpoints I've done so far seem very short. I draw the line at spending more time building a group than I do playing with them. So please make a LFG tool a priority, launching without one was a mistake.