LFR was added to allow more people access to the end game raids. To see the content. It, of course, was immediately hijacked by raiders who were after fill-in pieces for gear. They started acting poorly (taking half their guild on LFR runs so they could make sure everyone got the gear they were after, rolling need for items to sell or just to spite those outside of their guild, etc). The playerbase followed suit. The tool is just the means; blame the players for their douchenozzle attitudes, not the tool.

Blizzard's developers have said no such thing. Their xserver tool is wildly popular among its playerbase. The only thing that I am aware of them stating they wish they hadn't added was arena. If they thought xserver was such a bad idea, they wouldn't be expanding it in their next expansion. I will, however, accept proof via a link where Blizzard has explicitly stated their xserver tool was bad and should not have been implemented.

As an addendum, I'd like to warn people to make sure someone is actually a ninja before you brand them as a ninja. Someone winning a single roll over you does not make them a ninja. The word gets applied to liberally. Not that it really matters anyway; no one cares much for someone else's blacklist. In my opinion, you are more likely to be ignored for trying to tell everyone about a ninja than the person you are claiming ninjaed your loot.

I had a comment on your "just blacklist the baddies and everything will be hunky dory" but I can only say "no one cares about your blacklist, and you are more likely to get added to someones ignore list for trying to tell everyone about ninjas than the ninjas are" so many times. So, I'll just not comment on it. The cries about long queues will continue. Once cross server warzones are running smoothly, the tech will be added to the LFG tool. It is inevitable. What everyone should be fighting for is to ensure that a same server toggle is included in the cross server tool. That way, everyone gets what they want. If you don't fight for it now, you will be upset when the cross server tool is implemented and cross server is the only option there is.

Incorrect. Not sure why you think this; it would only be accurate if, by adding cross-server, only the numbers of DPS specced players increased while tank numbers remained the same. This is a ridiculous statement.

When it does happen (and it will), what are you going to say then?

No they won't. No one cares about your blacklist outside the small list of people you play with. Go spamming chat channels about ninja looters and what-not and guess who gets ignored (it isn't the ninja-looter, in case you can't figure it out). Xserver is the next step. Argue all you want about whether or not it is needed; it will come. Everyone should be fighting to make sure that when it does come, the same server toggle is part of it. No reason to not have the best of both worlds.

The argument was whether or not they counted free trials. Not how they charge players in Asia (which is well known by just about everyone). They don't count free trials. Bioware will, most likely, not count them either.

Maybe. But the people that Galactic was referring to are not your average whiners. They post in every thread the same garbage, real or imagined (usually imagined, or at the very least, embellished beyond reality). So much so that their names become so synonymous with whining/mudslinging that few people can take them seriously anymore. Not everyone who states a dislike of the game is a "hater". But not everyone who posts that they like the game is a "blind fanboi" either; these labels are thrown around way to nonchalantly.

They usually are. If their subset of the community was as large as they think it was, there would be a plethora of successful PvP based MMOs on the market right now. There aren't, because they don't.

So, what you are saying is you are one of those who thinks it is cool to "Rail Against THE MAN" for any reason, in a poor attempt to make you better than those who disagree? I find the whole "stick it to the man" post as ignorant and self-serving as the "the company can do no wrong" posts, personally.

Actually, they won't call it a server merge, because it won't be a server merge. Servers will most likely be closed. Transfers are not mergers. Closing servers is not merging them. You clearly do not understand what a merger is. But, since nothing has been said what is going to be done about those dead servers, you know exactly as much as I do about the whole situation: Nothing.

Allowing a few guilds at the top of the food chain to determine what content the rest of a server's playerbase gets to do is completely and totally ignorant on Bioware's part. If you want to know the "community" that people are so scared of getting ruined by a cross server LFG, this is it. It removes the ability of players/guilds to control the rest of the playerbase. When Cross Server comes, and it will, this kind of ridiculous stuff will be over; it is the sole reason why some are so opposed to it, even though they would never admit it.

Such BS. Your blacklist (if you carry one) has no bearing on whether or not someone gets a group. It's one of those misconceptions people have about how much influence they exert over a server/players. Call someone a ninja/bad, add them to your blacklist. Let everyone know about it. That person will still get groups, because no one cares about your blacklist.

They are NOT going to run dead servers for a handful of people. It is cost prohibitive to do so. Now, I don't know what they are going to do, but my money is on forcing transfers and closing the dead servers, and risk angering the few people left on these dead servers.