Good for you too bad you are minority. Maybe in future you will get your solo game with bots but for now classic crowd clearly stated that they dont want lfg in the game so. Blizzard just listened their audience and nothing els.
A little biased comparison, if you will.
Without LFD:
- You look LFG Bulletin board for groups looking for your class or try to gather instance party yourself. You communicate with people trying getting invites, beyond /W inv, if your class slot is contested.
- Once you traveled to dungeon entrance and summoned everyone you might have to fight together vs opposing faction if odds are even. If not, you just brace the rush to entrance together. Thouse who don’t like the idea of fights near summoning stone should had played on PvE realm.
- Once inside you value your time and effort that took to gather together. You will do your best for this group to finish that run and if party you played with do the same you may even have new people accepting your invitation to friendlist, making looking for a good tank/healer or dps faster next time. Back in the past these friend lists could help you to reqruit into guild to form a society.
With LFD:
- You put automatcher on and continue to quest/farm/chat, do whatever solo activities you want.
- You are most likely to find a group within 2…30 seconds, if you are a tank, 2…5 minutes as a healer, 10…40 minutes as DPS.
- You get teleported inside, so you have no need to fight, especially if your faction is in minority.
- Once inside you don’t care about some randoms, since you probably won’t meet em ever again and it is easy to find another group if you tank is unskilled/ungeared, or your dps are ignorant and are ninja pulling. Any mistake will lead not to player trying to sharing experience, but rather insults and quitting the group or complete disbandment after first wipe. Same with other aspects of anti-social behaviour, such as ninja looting, sudden afks without warning anyone e.t.c. Players behave, like they are playing single player game with them being main character and other party members like noname NPCs.
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Since You seem to imply that it is LFD (or lack of it) that changes people’s behaviour, I changed Your post a bit and wish to ask: do You believe that Your behaviour will change that drastically because of LFD? Do You exect Yourself to start insulting people, quitting the group at the first sign of mistakes, ninja looting and so on?
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Go play a SOLO player game then… this is a Multiplayer game 
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But don’t you get it? Currently you have to spend 30 minutes to fill a group and that’s impossible to wait for if you only can play 5 minutes a day.
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Alright if you do everything in group from now on.
Questing? Group up.
Afking in shat? Group up.
Farming/gathering? Group up.
It’s a multiplayer game after all, go play single player games if you want to do things by yourself.
/s
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Kind of bad comparison since most of these are solo content while dungeons and raids are designed as group content.
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I imply that I am prone to misbehave if some random player triggers me to since LFD puts mindset that I only need to press one button for system to find me another party. Are other player morally stronger than me? Some maybe, but I’ve seen worse behaviour left and right once automated systems get involved replacing human interaction.
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Wow! I am seriously amazed that a thing like LFD can change a person so much!
Can You tell how much of a change You see in Yourself playing with and without automated systems? Is it like You described in the previous post, a drastic change from making friends straight to insulting and ninja looting? Or is it rather minor? What behaviour triggers You enough to ninja loot items for example? Do You really start seeing people as NPC’s, and not players? What would You say makes You change most? Ease of finding another group? Lack of consequences?
I am asking this because in my own, private, real world experience I’d rather say that most people change very little due to circumstances. They mostly behave the same in formal and informal meetings, with friends or with strangers. If someone is friendly, he will be in all this situations. If someone is provocative, he will be in all this situations. His tone may be more or less formal, but the intentions are mostly the same.
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Like nah… Even with LFD you want to behave… Like you can be kicked, and having a good atmosphere generally increases the chances of success… And even without LFD you are unlikely to see them again, we are on mega server with so many people, what delusional world do you live in? lol. Also, its common to re-queue with the same group if its a good one, so stop saying you can behave however you want just because its LFD…
If you have an issue playing with random people that you haven’t type “inv” to beforehand, maybe get some friends. Or go vanilla servers.
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Who’s soloing raids and dungeons?
I did, because that is what you will do with LFD as you can skip the lockouts.
Maybe you should listen to some devs from time to time? Because you have no clue what you are talking about. Go play Diablo immortal instead.
Do bots speak on voicechat? Maybe you should learn to read
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LFR made it so solo players could do raids.
If I had that kind of time every day I prolly wouldn’t be asking for it in the first place. And for the record, I have more than just a char that I play.
Why are you so obsessed with voice chat?
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I thought you cared about social interaction?
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Yes, but i can type. And i have typed a lot in dungeons. Mage you need to sheep X and when i pull Y we need to do Z. etc. etc.
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And that’s social interaction to you? Lol I can have better social interactions than that on Discord then.
Social interaction to me is actually having conversations with people. Complete sentences. Maybe some banter. And you can’t exactly type any of that in-game like you would on Discord or other chats because, in-game, your hands are already busy actually playing the game
It’s kinda hilarious that you actually accuse others of being pro solo play and then glorify that kind of botspeak as "social interaction ". I’ve seen actual bots on reddit having more interesting things to say than what you just wrote as examples.
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