Is it just me, or does nobody use meeting stones?

[MongoJerry]

It is the 'if it ain't broken' mentality crossed with business cost/benefit. They could have a much better system in place pretty easily, but they'd actually have to spend time and money on it. If someone could convince them they'd increase player revenue from people staying in the game longer due to a marketable player-matching system for grouping, it'd likely be done within two patches.

But since no one has convinced them otherwise this initiative would generate revenue, not just suck up cost and resources, it'll never get done as players have their own crude methods to do what Blizzard doesn't have to.

Basically, nothing gets done unless someone with power and initiative steps up to plate.
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Yes, but they thought the current system was flawed enough that they put resources into it twice now. First, they developed the meeting stone system, including all of its mechanics and the artwork involved. Then, when people didn't use the meeting stones, Blizzard made the meeting stone system available at every inn. If only they had made a good system in the first place, that would've been great.