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The first thing I thought when I saw the new LFG interface coming in patch 3.3 was what I said on last week"s podcast: that"s cool, but where"s the LFG channel? If you remember way back during patch 2.0.1, when Blizzard originally released the LFG system, there was quite a clamor raised when they took away the LFG channel then, so much so that they eventually had to resurrect it. And so, when I saw in the latest patch notes that the LFG was set to return as a citywide channel, it didn"t come as a surprise at all -- even in the new era of cross-realm LFG, there"s still a place for just talking about which groups you can join.

But citywide still isn"t enough for a lot of players -- some are saying that they want the channel to be worldwide. Ghostcrawler himself shows up in that thread and says a worldwide LFG channel would be nuts. And he"s right: way back in the day when it was worldwide, it was "mass chaos," like a Barrens from everywhere. So why are people so tied to it? Blizzard seems to be missing a major way people used the LFG channel.

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The indomitable LFG chat channel originally appeared on WoW.com on Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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