Abolish 3 way PVP

[Pence]

Title pretty much says it all. I get that it's a cool idea....But it's not fun when your GC is on the receiving end of 2 v 1.

I've had amazingly fun PVP matches where no GCs teamed up, but they are few and far between.

Abolish 1 v 1 v 1 and GC requirements. Red v Blue would make everyone happier.

Side bar: Anyone else feeling like Yoshi saying that he likes to PVP meaning 'I like to PVP in X game, why would I create some here?'

[Morbid]

I have yet to try the 3 way PvP here in FFXIV but I think it's something that will more than likely stick. In other games with 3 way faction warfare there will always be a time where 1 side feels (and very well may be) it is getting the shaft by the other two.

Examples of games I myself played in recent memory being Planetside 1/2 and also The Secret World had heavy emphasis on 3 way battles. Honestly though even if it were just 2 sides here in FFXIV you would still have a bunch of bandwagon players jumping over to the winning faction. In 3 way battles the powerhouse has a chance of bullying too much and having the other 2 sides team up for their demise.

When players take actual strategy into consideration and not just trying to be on the easy win side opens up opportunities for awesome interplay between them. Takes players though. Not something SE can just fix.

[Lori]

Personally, I don't want it abolished. I love the hectic and crazy battles. There will always be times when you're getting teamed up on but that's the fun part in it, especially if you're team is good, then dealing with both of the other teams on you isn't that bad.

But I would also like some 1v1 team pvp.

[Chibilidawg]

3 way pvp is far more fun & even if there are times where two GC's gang up against 1... usually turning the tide is far better in this system than 1 faction completely dominating over another without aid in a 1v1 scenario.

More team v team options would be nice in the future though if they fixed pvp's glaring issues.

[Zensho]

Not sure if srs...

[Wulfyn]

It will more than likely not get abolished. There are 3 main nations, therefore 3 way pvp. You cant just up and merc for any nation you want. That doesn't make sense. In FFXI the pvp was always nation against nation, the exception being the one where you could duel with another player.

[RobinRethiel]

The whole war of the three city states against each other makes no sense. It feels very forced. Would be okay if it is training. But otherwise something like this would kill an alliance.

The whole 1vs1vs1 ist just imbalanced. Even worse in Slaughter than Secure. And guilds can just have groups in 2 of the GCs and coordinate over team speak, as one example.

Let them wintrade 1vs1, who cares. But not 2vs1 with the 1 as involuntary victim.

[Morbid]

The whole war of the three city states against each other makes no sense. It feels very forced. Would be okay if it is training. But otherwise something like this would kill an alliance.

The whole 1vs1vs1 ist just imbalanced. Even worse in Slaughter than Secure. And guilds can just have groups in 2 of the GCs and coordinate over team speak, as one example.

Let them wintrade 1vs1, who cares. But not 2vs1 with the 1 as involuntary victim.

The problem there is not the 3 way faction but players being lame and taking the paths of least resistance.

[Lorielle]

The problem that I've seen is people do just feed off the ones getting shafted. Team A us winning and pushing out Team C but Team B decides to try and go along with Team A. Why? It makes no sense

[Atreus]

In FFXI the pvp was always nation against nation, the exception being the one where you could duel with another player.

Not true. Even in the public nation-based matches, XI placed people on the teams that needed players. You could play for other nations all the time.