Petition to remove GC restrictions from Frontlines.

[MinervaV]

Yes - it's really time to remove the GC restriction, it was never needed in the first place. There's no reason not to allow players from different GCs to play together, no reason to force friends to switch to the same GC just to play together, and it doesn't benefit the queue times, regardless of what you have to say.

The benefits are obvious - queue matching is easier, teams are more randomized allowing more diverse victory outcomes, friends can play together across GCs...

And as someone mentioned earlier, if multi-member teams of any sort are prioritized over solo queue players, you need to alter that matchmaking to force them to wait until solo players with a longer queue time are served. This premade party queue issue is one that existed in other MMOs and was already resolved by doing this for the exact reasons that were called out.

[Vaeria]

signed for what its worth. Too much of a nobrainer. Any random 24 people sign up...bam..match goes...vs having 89 ppl on mael, 76 ppl on adders and 4 people on flames all twiddeling their fingers for 90 minutes. To be honest, being the spiteful individual I am..Id gain some twisted pleasure outta seeing pvp die completely then throwing it back in the dev's face as to the reason why. I mean how many more times and how many different ways to we have to ask in? No one gives a crap about the lore of pvp..we simply wanna fight. Thats all.

[Rose-Wild]

Please remove it.

[Sicks]

Please remove GC Restrictions. I agree with pretty much all of the reasons others have stated, and it has been asked for time and time again, and with each patch that passes it becomes more and more sad to not see the removal of GC restrictions in the patch notes.

Frontline roulette queues tend to take over an hour to pop, which is all i really queue for these days PvP wise because it takes so long to get a game, but I'd love to be able to play multiple games a night, or whenever. Give up the lore aspect, let us play PvP, no one cares about the lore for PvP, especially when there is no GC restriction in the Feast, it makes no sense for it to still be attached to frontline. Wise up! Especially since Feast queues are terrible now too. I have to resort to playing other games to get my fill of PvP and I'd rather play this game but you give me no choice.

[Kisama]

I have absolutely no faith in Square to fix this issue, but here's me signing the petition. Waiting hours for a pvp match is really making me consider cancelling my subscription.

[Koltik]

Good Luck.

In the stream on Friday the community devs were bragging about how they love the "competition" that GC splits bring. They love "seeing players get held up on the Lore and defending their GC, or saying that their GC the best".

Clueless.

[NovaLevossida]

Good Luck.

In the stream on Friday the community devs were bragging about how they love the "competition" that GC splits bring. They love "seeing players get held up in the Lore and defending their GC, or saying that their GC the best".

Clueless.

Absolutely.

Signed.

[Nalien]

Good Luck.

In the stream on Friday the community devs were bragging about how they love the "competition" that GC splits bring. They love "seeing players get held up on the Lore and defending their GC, or saying that their GC the best".

Clueless.

See, I would agree with them, but Grand Companies are a complete non-entity in XIV and their addition to PvP adds literally nothing... If they insist on keeping this, they damn well better do something with it... Like... Take the Feast party leaderboard, apply that to each Grand Company, and replace the Frontlines Roulette with a Ranked Frontlines option. We'd have the top 30 for each Grand Company, then tally up the overall rating for each Grand Company and rank the Grand Companies... That gives the restriction some damned purpose at least... That gives us a reason to actually defend and brag about our Grand Company...

In theory, I'm totally with them on those comments... Tying in Grand Companies can make things more interesting by engaging players with the lore, and I'd certainly enjoy that... The problem is they simply haven't bothered to tie Grand Companies into PvP... It's just a restriction that serves no greater purpose... There isn't a single game play purpose for it... They want a strong faction versus faction fell with Frontlines, fine. Great even, so do I. Slapping factions onto it and calling it a day doesn't achieve that though... There needs to be a reason for the restriction beyond "Because we said so"...

I really don't think this development team has a single clue what to do with Grand Companies... Even in PvE they might as well not exist... It's almost like they just went down a checklist of things an MMO should have and put no more thought or effort into things beyond "We need factions", "We need faction based PvP", and they've completely missed the point of having factions as a result... You could remove Grand Companies from the game almost completely and there would be no real difference... Who knows though, 3.4 is meant to be a Grand Company heavy update, maybe they'll finally get around to doing something with them... Doubt they'll do anything for Frontlines as well though...

[Stormrider]

Good Luck.

In the stream on Friday the community devs were bragging about how they love the "competition" that GC splits bring. They love "seeing players get held up on the Lore and defending their GC, or saying that their GC the best".

Clueless.

Glad I didn't watch this. I am sure they have been told to polish the "expletive" that is GC and call it a diamond. Maybe 2017 will bring a change but 3.X will have no GC fix. To go along with the inventory(cash shop) or housing(lol apartments).

[CyrilLucifer]

Also signing. The queue arguments are obvious and don't need to be restated, but GC grudges are actually a thing on Primal.

It's not a good thing, it's not "competition," it's obnoxious.