Is there any way to report/avoid players who intentionally throw?

I just got into CC and I've been having a pretty good time with it, but I just had my first match where a teammate sat down in the spawn area and did nothing for the match. Is there a way to make sure I'm never teamed up with this player again?

Edit: I did blacklist the player, but I'm not sure if that makes them unable to pvp with me.

Nope, blacklist won't do anything. You're pretty much stuck with them.

You can try to report them but that doesn't seem to do anything. There's been plenty of reports sent about people who AFK and throw games and there is absolutely nothing done about them. That's why me and a lot of people are extremely skeptical about the validity of reporting. SE either doesn't care, takes too long to address reports or just can't do anything about those players. It's a plague on queues right now on Aether.

They would probably just make new accounts but at least it would slow their process.

They have a small few person task force handling the pvp reports, so it takes forever for them to get things done. Some more obvious stuff like wintrading to #1 has bee dealt with in the past though.

Since they react slow your best bet is to check wheter those people are already in a match or queuing up and try to either dodge them or pick the same Job and snipe them.

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Originally Posted by Claustrum

I just got into CC and I\\'ve been having a pretty good time with it, but I just had my first match where a teammate sat down in the spawn area and did nothing for the match. Is there a way to make sure I\\'m never teamed up with this player again?

Edit: I did blacklist the player, but I\\'m not sure if that makes them unable to pvp with me.

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Yes, you are stuck. I honestly believe that there is a ton of win-trading going on right now, and that is being the most generous as to what I am seeing. You see the same names pop up, and on one side they are unlikable death gods who have 2+ on the Crystal, 500k healing done and 10+ assists (so you know they are helping to focus targets). Then on your team, they have 4 deaths, less than 30 seconds on the Crystal and no assists. Somehow there is a group that always seems to show up together and magically forget how to play all of a sudden. There is no escape and it is REALLY bad right now

I've seen it happen, experienced it, I know RNG plays a role in getting teammates and all... But, I've also heard that you can sometimes nail the same group teams by joining all at once. But I don't know if that is a myth or not. I've tried reporting once or twice because of this very same reason. People will AFK, or just sit there for a spell and wait it out so we all rush in and get hammered hard. It can get ridiculous but the occurrence has been rare for me thus far in ranked. In casual it happens more than I would be comfortable with. So I've been avoiding CC for the last day or so.

It's not really so much direct wintrading people do but instead they play until they have reached their desired rank, then troll the absolute shit out of CC games on their smurf, that includes playing totally new roles or sniping people that could endanger their rank. So brace yourself because the hard trolling is not even here.

If you just get trolled by one person, find him, look when he is gone otherwise if he was on your game wait 5 minutes and queue again. The chance that you line up again will take so many games.

Sadly there is no "Avoid being teamed with this player" option.

Just had a run where a GNB intentionally throwing the match. Going in, getting ko'd, then spamming the chat...try to blame the others, then get ko'd some more, costing the team the win. I just stop playing for an hr or 2...or the next day. The person was on Crystal rank at that.

Find out where they live and PvP them irl.

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Originally Posted by Nikoto

Find out where they live and PvP them irl.

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And then spawn camp them at the hospital.

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Originally Posted by Claustrum

I just got into CC and I\\'ve been having a pretty good time with it, but I just had my first match where a teammate sat down in the spawn area and did nothing for the match. Is there a way to make sure I\\'m never teamed up with this player again?

Edit: I did blacklist the player, but I\\'m not sure if that makes them unable to pvp with me.

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I mean I have a group of idiots who will just sit in the back of the start area and AFK when they are on my team. Like 2 or 3 of them. Don’t known them, they are very stupid, but since we communicate in CC, I can’t ask them what their damage is or call them out. I don’t know what is wrong with these people, but they can’t be avoided

That should read “can’t” communicate

This is the trend for me since few days.. i do CC "casual" (cause ranked doen't start anymore) and i found a LOT, like a lot of.. "letargic" (?) players.. they doen't do anything from start or they start not doing anything just after first attack on middle cristal..
example:

https://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acc...2500291774.jpg

I wanted to complete the 200 victories for the mount (i need only a few more) but i guess i'll wait till next season >_>

I just had this happen to me twice in a row. I managed to take screenshots of the second person and reported them. This is the first time I've encountered this problem and it's pretty frustrating. I can handle it when people just don't know what they're doing or get glory-thirsty for kills and forget it's a team game. I can even handle it when people spam nice job and good match at moments where people have made mistakes.

But people just outright standing still and doing nothing on purpose or stay in the spawn area and walk around... it's not fun getting hammered 4 v 5.

Edit: Got a reply from the GM's, really really fast response actually. I'm grateful for that at least!

https://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acc...6335bc4970.jpg

I'm pretty sure all my teammates are throwing. I'm getting the same people in every match who play like masters when they're on the other team and suddenly become mush brained when they get on my team.

Really sick of this. I need to have the ability to refuse to team with people who pull crap like that.

Yes, thats an issue. I saw entire groups (that are officilly known as group) in the same match but also hi rank players that either thrown by standing afk or just played like a first timer.

The process to report them needs to be simplified. I have had WHM who did 0 healing and ran in physically attacking like a melee dps. That's pretty obvious that they want to lose. I've seen team members just stand around (0 deaths) and the entire enemy team attacks one or two people who didn't get the memo that we're supposed to lose. Add that to the rampant cheat bots in pvp and it's going to kill pvp again. It'll soon go back to "almost nobody pvps in ffxiv." Devs, if you actually read this, it's past time to do something.

been playing ffxiv sence arr and did one season with pvp got my mount and walked away from it good luck with the new pvp.

There are 2 reasons why blacklist doesnt block the blacklisted person from duties:

- Your blacklist would always had to be send and updated to duty server. Something something "server stress". If it was only send once per log in, youd have to log out for new list to udpate..

- It could be abused in a way that people would pile on someone, whether real reason or not, making them unable to do duty finder content until they change DC or server.

Here is example: In Overwatch there used to be option that let others "avoid matching with this person". Worked out fine, but there was also sadly those that abused it so now we cant have nice things. How was it abused? There was story used as example why it was removed: there was really good sniper player who basically carried the teams.

So enemy players would get pissed and use the "avoid matching" function so they wouldnt be matched against this good player. Player now has 2 hour queues because of their skill, despite the game being at its most popular and usual match queue would last under 5 mins.


It would be used same way in XIV. Someone gets pissed because they think you didnt stand in crystal enough? Blocked. Someone gets pissed they think you are doing esports level sweaty kills? Blocked. Someone thinks you threw game because you picked bard for CC? Blocked.
And tadah, now you cant do CC anymore.

I wish there was easy way for this rather than relying on GM reports.

By the same measure, before afking folks should be allowed to report the feeders that run in 1v5, they aren't playing PVP the way I want, so they must be dealt with!

I really wish there was a way to chastise people that throw but bad words are worse than going out of your way to ruin other people's experience apparently :)

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Originally Posted by CamuiKushi

I just had this happen to me twice in a row. I managed to take screenshots of the second person and reported them. This is the first time I've encountered this problem and it's pretty frustrating. I can handle it when people just don't know what they're doing or get glory-thirsty for kills and forget it's a team game. I can even handle it when people spam nice job and good match at moments where people have made mistakes.

But people just outright standing still and doing nothing on purpose or stay in the spawn area and walk around... it's not fun getting hammered 4 v 5.

Edit: Got a reply from the GM's, really really fast response actually. I'm grateful for that at least!

https://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acc...6335bc4970.jpg

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Oh it's even more rage inducing when you get into Plat, Diamond, and Crystal. You won't even have the 0 damage and 0 healing output obvious one's, you'll have what others describe as the "hit-a-switch" win-trading. I've seen:
- monks/sam's/reapers getting doubled/tripled in damage output by a healer/tank
- diamond blm's doing same damage I am on bard
- going 1v5 and getting 1-2 skills off before death, ignoring several retreat and regroup pings
- whm walking around and not casting in a 2v1 instead of helping to kill someone who got caught out, but after that person escapes, joins the group to act like they want to help again
- feeding the entire match and botching important LB's like PLD to hold a crystal for respawn timers in overtime/near the end of the match
- ppl legitimately playing worse than bronze 3, but then come back 2-3 games later to be unkillable tanks running through people and the funny part is that you can't get to Plat, especially Diamond without being somewhat consistent. You may have an off game, but you never go straight garbage even as an off-role, let alone your main job you come back to dominate on. These jobs aren't complicated enough for you to completely swing that wide. You may go down to Gold-skill on an off-role, but not Bronze-tier.

I normally give people the benefit of the doubt given the fact that sometimes when I stream and I have enough devices running, I've been hit with lag spikes in the middle of a pvp match for 20-30s that left me frozen/no1 on my screen is updating and then it catches up later and im dead, so I normally give it like 2-3 matches and im watching them the entire match to see the consistency of that bad performance not only in the match but later on as well.

GMs do respond quickly but it's just a canned response saying they'll "Look into it". There's a PVP "task force" that's made up of I think, one person and his cat, and they have to deal with the log of research for more important things like what they're having for dinner. Only if there's a LOT of complaining and a lot of evidence do they actually do something about the problem. But it's weird because video evidence isn't accepted (can be spoofed, as if someone would go to the trouble...it's not like photoshop, folks).

don't hold your breath waiting for something happen its not going to.