Dear Yoshi & Team: About Current TT Tournament Model

[Grekumah]

Any news about the "Tournament"?

Apologies for the delay for providing an update regarding adjustments to the Triple Triad Tournament, as we understand many of you have been looking forward to participating in them.

First off, we are not going to be making adjustments to the current tournament for the following reasons:

1. If we were to make adjustments to the active tournament it would affect the development of Patch 2.55 and Heavensward.

2. Since this tournament uses a system that follows a set rotation schedule, if we were to stop a tournament midway through, it wouldn't be possible to obtain the rare cards that are available from the current tournament until much later, and this would disappoint many players who were looking forward to trying to obtain those cards.

We are, however, planning to make adjustments to the tournament rules in Patch 2.55. After this, we will also make additional minor adjustments moving forward. We're still in the process of making final adjustments, and we will announce the specific details at a later date.

[Shake0615]

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Thanks for the reply, Greg. But can you address the concern that people who win tournaments (fairly or not) will wind up with a permanent advantage (the rare card), thus creating an uneven playing field and still incentivizing cheating? As I have understood it from the community, awarding powerful cards in TCGs is not standard practice for the above reasons and I'd hate to see something like that hurt TT.

[Omegakiyohime]

Thanks for the reply, Greg. But can you address the concern that people who win tournaments (fairly or not) will wind up with a permanent advantage (the rare card), thus creating an uneven playing field and still incentivizing cheating?

The tournament rewards are no more powerful than the other FF protagonist cards available through other methods. It has certain side advantages and certain side weaknesses. Now if it had As on every side that would be an issue, but it doesn't and like most 5 star cards can be great or bad depending on the situation, the placement, and the rules in place.

[BlaiseArath]

Grekaleken

The only people looking forward to obtaining those rare cards are the very same abusing the system so much that it needs to be changed >_>...

But i understand why you're holding off until the next patch instead of a Hotfix. I'm grateful you're changing it, and hopefully it works out for the better. Hopefully someday in the future I can look forward to obtaining these cards. Cause as it stands now, literally the day of the tournament, theres already someone (even with random) sitting at 20/20 wins... My only hope at this point is to maybe place high enough to get a decent amount of MGP.

I'd make a recommendation... even with fixing the tournament, can i recommend adding new ways to get these Tournament cards? Or at least distribute them to the top 20 instead of just the top 3?

[Aeyis]

2. Since this tournament uses a system that follows a set rotation schedule, if we were to stop a tournament midway through, it wouldn't be possible to obtain the rare cards that are available from the current tournament until much later, and this would disappoint many players who were looking forward to trying to obtain those cards.

Currently the only ones who look forward to obtaining those cards are those that win-trade.
As someone who legimately won a Lightning card I can say that anyone that doesn't win-trade just won't stand a chance to get 1th-3rd place in the tournaments. It's completely impossible with the random rule that the current tournament has, in fact.

[AryaSpark]

2. Since this tournament uses a system that follows a set rotation schedule, if we were to stop a tournament midway through, it wouldn't be possible to obtain the rare cards that are available from the current tournament until much later, and this would disappoint many players who were looking forward to trying to obtain those cards.

Yeah, 99.9% of the players aren't already disappointed about having no chance at those cards unless they game the system... /eyeroll

[Zanarken]

this would disappoint many players who were looking forward to trying to obtain those cards.

As opposed to the thousands of players amongst all servers that are left disappointed because there is no legitimate way they can win without match fixing/cheating for the second tournament in a row? I know your just the messenger Grekumah, so forgive my irritation but this has been a disaster. If this was raid content, it would be hotfixed within hours. This is the equivalent of the New Alexander raid coming out, first static to enter circumvents encounter & acquires exclusive loot that no one else on the server can obtain. Then are permitted to keep said loot. For many TT is an endgame in itself. There are people who are playing FFXIV right now solely for the GS update & addition of TT.

[AryaSpark]

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Nothing wrong with virtually shooting the messenger when the excuse he brings is the higher-ups pooping is his hands....'hey yeah guys, so this is the plan...we're going to leave the easily exploitable system in place so that we don't disappoint those that are going to expolit the system..." Cowards.

See where all your brilliant suggestions went, SnuggleButt?

[Utsu]

1. If we were to make adjustments to the active tournament it would affect the development of Patch 2.55 and Heavensward.

What about the useless hotfixes for dyes ? Please.

2. Since this tournament uses a system that follows a set rotation schedule, if we were to stop a tournament midway through, it wouldn't be possible to obtain the rare cards that are available from the current tournament until much later, and this would disappoint many players who were looking forward to trying to obtain those cards.

Is that a joke ? Please, tell me that's a joke...

[SongJoohee]

2. Since this tournament uses a system that follows a set rotation schedule, if we were to stop a tournament midway through, it wouldn't be possible to obtain the rare cards that are available from the current tournament until much later, and this would disappoint many players who were looking forward to trying to obtain those cards.

WHAT?!?!

The only players currently looking forward to "trying to obtain those cards" are the scummy win-traders who have nothing better to do with their time. Extremely poor reasoning. The tournament rewards should have been removed the moment mass win-trading became common in TT - aka straight away. Rewarding cheaters is the worse thing you can do.