Dear Yoshi & Team: About Current TT Tournament Model

[ServerCollaps]

The thing that irritates me the most is that SE knows that people are exploiting and cheating. Even some of the posts are showing this as well as SE can monitor account activity. But they won't do anything about it, even if shown proof. It's like how they don't do anything about RMTs until they need to show the monthly quota of how many banned accounts and RMT activity they've dealt with. So these people instead of being punished by having their cards rolled back, or the tourney card taken from them, instead are rewarded with it and even more MGP. SE will continue to do nothing about it except promise us it will be "fixed" later in the future.

what they do isnt against any rule, so noone can blame or ban them

[Zanarken]

what they do isnt against any rule, so noone can blame or ban them

Is it really necessary for Square Enix to set rules of morality?

[Malakai]

what they do isnt against any rule, so noone can blame or ban them

What they are doing is clearly exploiting a flaw in SE's design. Sure they are not using a 3rd party program to do so but what you are saying that it's okay for them to be taking advantage of such a flaw. That would be the same as justifying someone who encountered a flaw in gathering to where they could gather more than the required amount, or someone who found a flaw where a NPC actually bought junk items for a high exchange of gil, and so forth. But you know SE would be instantly banning/rerolling characters who abused such an exploit because it would give them an "unfair advantage" or cause "imbalance" in the games economy and so forth. It's the same exact thing here. People found a flaw in design and are exploiting it causing an unfair advantage which causes an imbalance to everyone else who isn't taking advantage of the flaw.

[Zanarken]

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Exactly. Which is what I don't understand. If this impacted the raid community, as in a new raid was circumvented somehow...players would be banned within hours. Why has this been permitted? We have players running around with hundreds of thousands of MGP they did not earn legitimately. How is this ok?

[ServerCollaps]

What they are doing is clearly exploiting a flaw in SE's design. Sure they are not using a 3rd party program to do so but what you are saying that it's okay for them to be taking advantage of such a flaw. That would be the same as justifying someone who encountered a flaw in gathering to where they could gather more than the required amount, or someone who found a flaw where a NPC actually bought junk items for a high exchange of gil, and so forth. But you know SE would be instantly banning/rerolling characters who abused such an exploit because it would give them an "unfair advantage"

everyone has the same chances in the tournaments, some people just know how to use their ressources better than others, but everyone is equal

some people are just worse because they think of moral in the internet

[NJA]

some people are just worse because they think of moral in the internet

This in a nutshell encapsulates the absolute worst thing about the Internet. It is astonishing how people think basic concepts of human interaction do not apply if they are sitting at a computer screen.