Grouping Tool Still Useless

Teiji

This LFG tool should be incredible, I mean - megaserver. Everyone on one server should make it so much more efficient.

But it doesn't even work, sad. Then you're forced to use /zone chat and because of all the trade guilds and whatever-guilds you're in, you're stuck in one, maybe two different phases if you're lucky. If you're even more lucky, most of those players know how to play the game.

If you're not, they grinded to VR14 and never paid attention during the tutorial and they're all stuck in your phase, forever. Ten minute dungeon runs turn into three hours. Friends become foe and your experience is nothing but infinite woe.

I'd love to spam VR Wayrest Sewers with the LFG tool, hopefully it's fixed soon, it's only been several years or so, can't be much longer.

daolar

ZOS_TristanK wrote: »

Just a quick update on this, folks. We are still working on a fix for the Grouping Tools. The problem is a bit complex from the back end, but rest assured the fix is still a high priority. We'll be sure to give you all more information as it becomes available.

no offence, but dont seem like it, several months later, and its still completely broken.

wafcatb14_ESO

daolar wrote: »

ZOS_TristanK wrote: »

Just a quick update on this, folks. We are still working on a fix for the Grouping Tools. The problem is a bit complex from the back end, but rest assured the fix is still a high priority. We'll be sure to give you all more information as it becomes available.

no offence, but dont seem like it, several months later, and its still completely broken.

of course not , just like we are working on the lag, crashes in Cryodill etc , same as the bugs that were in game on the closed PTS server back in dec 2013 that are still in the game now .

All they did was string you along, so we kept paying our sub to fund their devlopment of the Consel and cash store very little if anything went to fix bugs etc. Thats why it took them over a month to try and fix the cryodill lag/crashes the first time which while better is no where near as good as it was in beta and at launch .

Which is why i will never buy another ZOS game/product again .

Cody

wafcatb14_ESO wrote: »

Lol same useless responses from ZOS. honestly the game for the most part is nothing more than a single player game from 1-50 , with the group dungeon option in each zone.

The entire game all the quests, content etc other than the 1 group dungeon per zone and craglorn, the game is designed as a solo game experience, the crap phase questing they have in game should have made it obvious, that and how no matter what race, class or faction the main story, fighters and mage guilds quests are the same .= no real replay value.

If you actually want to group up , you should do like MMO gamers did for years, long before they made a LFG tool . and that is ask in zone chat for a group [ gasp but that`ll break my solo immersion game exp ] lol .

gasp: most of the time that does not work either:/

Jogi1

I got to level 45 with my 4th alt and got the mail from the Undaunted, an invite to do some daily pledges. I knew finding a group to help me in the quest would be hard, but it turned to be impossible.

Using the grouping tool is really frustrating. You don't know if it works, there's no feedback of others who are looking for groups, no indication of other players of same level. I start to wonder if all zones are as dead as it seems, because shouting in zone does not help either.

I would really like to go to dungeons, do Undaunted pledges, but it is impossible. There are no ways to get a group. May all eight Divines be with you that changing the game B2P helps and grouping will be easier.

anitajoneb17_ESO

joukomalkakorpieb17_ESO wrote: »

There are no ways to get a group.

There is : join a nice guild.

Razzak

According to PTS 1.6 patch notes, they've made a change:
"Grouping Tools
Fixed an issue if you selected a role at the same time a group search started, the icon to toggle roles could not be used.".

If that is going to improve the chances of actually getting in a group is yet to be seen.
@Gina and Co refuse to answer any questions regarding the overall performance or other fixes they might have made to it.

Razzak

ZOS_TristanK wrote: »

Just a quick update on this, folks. We are still working on a fix for the Grouping Tools. The problem is a bit complex from the back end, but rest assured the fix is still a high priority. We'll be sure to give you all more information as it becomes available.

This was in November.

NewBlacksmurf

This needs to work now on PTS for 1.6 as if not they are going to fail on console release. There is not text on consoles and I left when this broke along with another big error now fixed.

It's been since October but wow it's 100% non functional now. I expect to be able to quest while queued. If not...this may as well be single player with friendly co-op quests.

Gidorick

NewBlacksmurf wrote: »

This needs to work now on PTS for 1.6 as if not they are going to fail on console release. There is not text on consoles and I left when this broke along with another big error now fixed.

It's been since October but wow it's 100% non functional now. I expect to be able to quest while queued. If not...this may as well be single player with friendly co-op quests.

The thing about consoles is there is already an established community. With PC games there really isn't that kind of existing group. On ESO I have a friends list that I built within ESO. On the PS4, my friends list exists separately (kind of like steam on PC).

wafcatb14_ESO

Gidorick wrote: »

NewBlacksmurf wrote: »

This needs to work now on PTS for 1.6 as if not they are going to fail on console release. There is not text on consoles and I left when this broke along with another big error now fixed.

It's been since October but wow it's 100% non functional now. I expect to be able to quest while queued. If not...this may as well be single player with friendly co-op quests.

The thing about consoles is there is already an established community. With PC games there really isn't that kind of existing group. On ESO I have a friends list that I built within ESO. On the PS4, my friends list exists separately (kind of like steam on PC).

Sure there is . my guild while it started out as just a guild 13 years ago is now a Gaming community with over 4k members world wide, that spans multiple games.

We started ESO with 1300 guild members . 6 months after launch as were down to 240 guild members, the guildes that left are still members of the guild they are just not playing ESO anymore.

Of the 1050 or so guildes that quit ESO only 3 stated they might come back and try after it goes B2p since they already own a copy of the game.

The rest stated they had no intrest in even trying it again even tho it is free. because the Devs have no clue wtf they are doing.

and instead of fixing the issues that were messed up in game, they lied and just used all the sub money for the last 10 months to fund the consel and cash store infrastructure, instead of fixing stuff like LFG tool, Guild functions, Traders, AVA lag, and crashes, multiple bugs etc.

And this is just one gaming community I know there are others that are in or were playing ESO.

NewBlacksmurf

ZOS_TristanK wrote: »

Just a quick update on this, folks. We are still working on a fix for the Grouping Tools. The problem is a bit complex from the back end, but rest assured the fix is still a high priority. We'll be sure to give you all more information as it becomes available.

Can you confirm that it should be fixed before, at release or after update 1.6?

BigM

NewBlacksmurf wrote: »

ZOS_TristanK wrote: »

Just a quick update on this, folks. We are still working on a fix for the Grouping Tools. The problem is a bit complex from the back end, but rest assured the fix is still a high priority. We'll be sure to give you all more information as it becomes available.

Can you confirm that it should be fixed before, at release or after update 1.6?

We have to live with it, believe me they don't care about us so they aren't going to answer you. All they care about is the console right now and to keep as many of us in the PC game to keep beta testing for them. We get screwed and they don't give a darn about us.

daolar

just wish the would be honest and say, we are removing it or something lol, since it worked badly at lauch, and been broken for several months now, and their reply is, we are working on it, its a priority issue since its a game system, tbh I can live without it, Im just sick of the bs

Akselmo

Instead of automated searching, it could provide a list of groups.

You make a group posting to LFG tool. "LFG Fungal Grotto" could be the name of your group, for example.

Then everyone else could just pick and choose what group they want to join in.

It would work better than automated search.

Bandras

Akselmo wrote: »

Instead of automated searching, it could provide a list of groups.

You make a group posting to LFG tool. "LFG Fungal Grotto" could be the name of your group, for example.

Then everyone else could just pick and choose what group they want to join in.

It would work better than automated search.

This might actually work...though most likely we would end up with hundreds of groups with 1 or two people in them refusing to merge with other groups.

On the other hand I still like the idea and if the devs are unable to fix their tools then they should come up with something else. This idea is as good as any other I have heard about the LFG tool and probably it would not take too much time to implement something like this.

I know that many people here say that you should find a good guild and grouping will not e an issue anymore but they are not quite right. You might be ina good guild but still, you may not find ppl torun these dungeons with.

The main issue, imo, is the dungeon scaling. Now, it is even more complicated to find ppl who fit in the level range. It is a bit easier to find groups for the pledges from lvl 45 but what if you like running these dungeons on a daily basis at lower levels as well?

The old system, at least, was a bit easier to cope with since you had a kind of a level range for all of these dungeons.

Hopefully, the tool will be fixed soon ( I, personally, do not believe this) or the console guys will have difficult times waiting for them.

Lord Xanhorn

At a minimum, put a bandaid on it and make a global LFG channel.

theschmids_ESO

ZOS_TristanK wrote: »

Just a quick update on this, folks. We are still working on a fix for the Grouping Tools. The problem is a bit complex from the back end, but rest assured the fix is still a high priority. We'll be sure to give you all more information as it becomes available.

Understand how long it takes. IDEA try adding a /pledge or a /undaunted bar in the chat box. That would work across zones. Someone then could hear about a Wayrest run without having to be near Daggerfall.

Anlaemar

Akselmo wrote: »

Instead of automated searching, it could provide a list of groups.

You make a group posting to LFG tool. "LFG Fungal Grotto" could be the name of your group, for example.

Then everyone else could just pick and choose what group they want to join in.

It would work better than automated search.

This. I would like this more than an automated search.

Rial

To add my own two peices of any arbitrary currency:

I started playing ESO again ten days ago, and since then I've been sorted into a total of three(!) groups despite being queued pretty much permanently. Add to that that the LFG tool doesn't always appreciate your role of choice. I queued as healer only, and today I got added to a group as DPS.

arqe

There shouldn't be any LFG tools anyway but nevermind ...
Game would be better. Like there is no Global Auction House , nobody can play the big rich guy and control the economy by waiting in same spot entire week refreshing "Search Item" tab.
Everybody just grinds NPC's and cries about there is no LFG Tool.
Just go and actually play the game , communicate with people and you'll find it easy to get a group for every occasion ...
Actually , what can you expect ? Most people complains about people chatting in Zone Chat and saying "use whisper" ...

Rial

arqe wrote: »

Just go and actually play the game , communicate with people and you'll find it easy to get a group for every occasion ...

Tried it, didn't work.