Hello IMC and ToS fans,
The one topic I’m really interested in that I haven’t heard about is dungeon matchmaking.
I feel that auto-matchmaking which teleports you to the dungeon with your group then sends you back to where you were after the dungeon is completed is a bad game design in relation to having more social interaction in an MMO.
Tera is an example of this style of matchmaking and in turn nobody talks before the dungeon, during the dungeon or after then dungeon.
However in games which require you to find a group by talking to others and then going to the dungeon together people will talk about simple things like where they currently are, how long they will be and then the first few to get to the dungeon will make idle chat while waiting for the others, this might be small interactions but it’s how most friendships in MMOs start out.
I think it’s important for an MMO to have lots of community interaction so I hope they will think really hard about whether or not dungeon Matchmaking is a good mechanism to have in ToS.
I’d also like to hear other people thoughts on this.
Thanks