tournament match fatigue

This is probably going to come across as pointless whining (because it is) but is anyone else tired of tournaments having 40-50 matches? Didn't the tournaments start out with only 16-20 matches?

I know that they've been increasing the number of matches as a deterrent to cheating (like that works), and it was originally a blessing in helping to get achievements for tournament wins.

But man, I log in just to do the tournament (I'm taking a break except for gold saucer) and the games just keep coming.

(edit) and finally done. 50 games in a little over an hour. I mean, I like card games and ice cream, but I don't like eating ice cream for an hour straight.

Yeah I agree. I outlined in a different thread on this sub-forum (quite lengthy, like I usually am... Edit: Was bored so I found the post.) how I feel that the increased amount of tourney matches actually made it tougher for legit players to place in the top 20 because the people using alts to work their way up the leaderboard are going to do it regardless of how many matches they need to boost. Back when it was 15 matches per tourney there was at least a remote hope that you could win all of your games. When you have to play 50, its basically impossible.

I just NPC mine now, and I can barely bring myself to do that. It's so time consuming.

I don't think the tourney length increased to deter cheating. I think the tourney length increased to better represent the grind the tournament became. No more exclusive rewards for placing, everyone gets the same or similar prize except for the top 3 (which you have no chance of making unless you log on as soon as the tourney starts and grind 50 wins against alts). It is a tournament now in name only.

50 is too much. I've actually stopped at 4,000 points as this will net me 4 platinum cards and there were not enough matches left to reach 5k.

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Originally Posted by SuperZay

50 is too much. I've actually stopped at 4,000 points as this will net me 4 platinum cards and there were not enough matches left to reach 5k.

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Yeah, I guess it's 1 platinum card for 1000 points? So long tournaments help you win more cards, but if that is all they are going for, just double the # of points per match. Anyway, I guess it isn't too big a deal, just strange to blow an hour and a half playing against the same npc over and over.

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Originally Posted by Gunspec

Yeah, I guess it's 1 platinum card for 1000 points?

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it isnt, atleast I didnt get a single pack with 1600 points once

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50 is too much. I've actually stopped at 4,000 points as this will net me 4 platinum cards and there were not enough matches left to reach 5k.

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it should give you some good gil if you are ranked and sell your left games :p

It's not just points for platinum cards. I think the number of wins is relevant as well.

It seems to be a different threshold for platinum packs with each tournament. It probably depends on how many matches are available.

15 was nothing ..50 is too much, they should just stick to 30 matches at maximum, i dont see any sense in different tournaments, having a different amount of matches to play anyways.

You were right, I got only 3 platinum cards for 4k+ points ;-_-;

I'd add my vote as well:

* 50 Matches is too much and too tiring.

It does nothing to deter the cheaters w/ alts, and makes it more painful for the regular players.

If ur grinding 50 matches on the same npc for an hour then u only got urself to blame for it being dull and tiresome. Try having abit of fun with it, u have a whole week! Play ppl in ur fc or linkshells or jus random ppl in the GS, u know, how its supposed to be played.

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Originally Posted by jack891

If ur grinding 50 matches on the same npc for an hour then u only got urself to blame for it being dull and tiresome. Try having abit of fun with it, u have a whole week! Play ppl in ur fc or linkshells or jus random ppl in the GS, u know, how its supposed to be played.

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Except this is hardly possible at all, because I stood around for an entire week on the last tournament I participated in challenging any and every person I saw that could accept a tournament invite and got about 20 matches out of the 45 I needed for that week. I was forced to NPC my final 25 wins because I would have forfeited them if I didn't.

Why, you may ask? Because the people kept declining the invite. And why may they do that? Because, they are either waiting until the last minute to boost their wins, don't care and NPC their wins for the guaranteed plat packs, or are going to be paid gil by someone to let them boost wins off of them.

Playing people in my FC or Linkshells doesn't help when most of the people I ask couldn't care less about Triple Triad. So how is that fun for me? To stomp a player with starter 5 cards to the ground when I have a pool of 75 to choose from? There is no "fun" in this for someone who wants to do as you say, and you know, play how it's supposed to be played.

The tournament is a damn joke. You could have a month to get your 50 wins and it isn't going to stop 95% of people from falling into one of the three aforementioned categories when they see reset day at 4am someone already has 6500 points. It deters people because, news flash, you can't attain that score yourself without doing the same thing that person did. Boost with alts. In fact, even if you did boost with alts it's almost guaranteed you won't be able to reach the point total that the first person did because their booster alts were in the top 10 giving the main bonus points for being an early bird.

But according to them, there are no rules against this so it's totally ok!! So, please tell me, exactly how is this tournament supposed to be played?!

Just got 4 packs for scoring 4.5k points after 50 matches on Guhtwint. Maybe it's time we keep track of this data.

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Originally Posted by JayCommon

Except this is hardly possible at all, because I stood around for an entire week on the last tournament I participated in challenging any and every person I saw that could accept a tournament invite and got about 20 matches out of the 45 I needed for that week.

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I feel sorry for ya, but I was originally only doing npc duels to get my 100 tournament wins achievement. And now that I've got that finished, I rarely even see people online to play with. Also, when you consider that getting more points = more card packs, two people grinding npcs will net more packs than two people fighting each other.

Maybe they should give a card pack for every 15 tournament games played, win or lose? Then you could fight your friends, or strangers, or whoever, and you get packs for time invested rather than how badly you whooped some npc dude.