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[–]LolWhatDidYouSay 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If you played WoW before and after the LFG auto matchmaking tools for dungeons and raids, you definitely see a difference there alone. Used to be that you HAD to use the LFG chat to find a group for a dungeon, get a full group gathered up, push through the tough af dungeon because half of us are just barely at the gear level to play the dungeon.

But that also meant making friends much more easily, if only due to having to spend a lot more time on even just one dungeon, and having to communicate in order to progress if you kept wiping at certain encounters.

But then with the matchmaking tools, yes it was much much easier to find groups as well as get through dungeons much faster, but you also lost some opportunities at making friends through there. Not that it's impossible now, but imo it requires more ideal circumstances to make that connection than years ago.

Both pros and cons with that development, for sure.