"Dungeon Finder is intentionally disabled on Lordaeron. This is a design feature of the realm as we invite players to form groups, travel to instances making Lordaeron a memorable adventure for everyone."
It really irks me that the dev team has no problem axing one of the main, published, and advertised "design features" of the realm.
Now look, I'm not gonna go on a crusade with pitchforks and trash talk and stuff, but this really kinda is a bum move for all the people who CAME to Lordaeron for the sole reason that RDF was disabled. Again, this was one of its main selling points, and now its getting taken away.
I have 2 toons on Icecrown, a lock with a 5159 GS and a pally at 4623. Certainly not scores that are going to win me any awards, but you can see the level of time invested into them to acquire those numbers. I have little to no interest playing them because I haven't come across any guilds / players that would accept them / me. No, I'm not a rude a-hole or anything, but my time zone {and native language} apparently clash with the majority of Icecrown.
That is not an issue on Lordaeron.
Making groups for quests, meeting people out in the world, staying at a relatively even level with them over the weeks allowed me to forge friendships with many people and nestle in with several guilds. This is what Lordaeron was INTENDED to do with the omission of the RDF, and I know I am not the only one this benefited.
Now look, with RDF, is all of that going to go away? I have no idea. I'm luckily in a place where I play with good chill people in some nice guilds, but I can't say that new players down the road will have that same fate.
I fear it will be spam dungeons using RDF, stand in major cities, DPS yells "GO GO GO" to the tanks, all players who are not up to par of the elitists will be "crappy noobs" and we will see the downward spiral of subs and players just like retail WoW did all those years ago.
History does tend to repeat itself.
With a sad face,
-Lmno