Throwers in ranked

[Krolja]

You've just stated the entire reason I've stopped trying to play Triple Triad or even consider Lord of Verminion. It's the same 3 people in the top 3 of every tourney. Not worth trying to even compete.

But, according to their data no one is cheating! Lol. Probably the funniest quote of 2017 so far.

[Cynric]

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That's actually why I never bothered playing Triple Triad or collecting the cards despite loving TCG and CCG's and playing many of them in real life. There's really no point if people are just gonna trade wins.

But Triple Triad was never advertised as "possible e-sport", so I would expect a bit better of them for Feast, I expected wrong, and honestly once this season is up, unless they plan to pay me handsomely I'm not participating again. Despite being able to keep my rank up there's really no sportsmanship or feeling of true "competitive" style with Feast.

It'd be like if I went to a boxing match and three dudes were undefeated because they did only below the belt hits and no one cared enough to call them on it.

What's the point in fighting fair if people can cheat with no repercussions?

[Magic-Mal]

What's the point in fighting fair if people can cheat with no repercussions?

One of the reasons why I'm not participating this season myself. The whole Top 100 thing is just.. so bad. With people never getting punished it's almost like "Why am I even playing fair? I could just cheat and win right now". It feels like the key to winning is to play dirty or to abuse an exploit in the system or take the easy way of winning(Play healer = Top 5). Nothing felt worse than knowing you're working really hard to climb the ranks and then there's this person who gets to just cheat all day, either during the whole season or black week, and be higher than you. Or knowing that you won't be able to win because healers or tanks can decide to not queue meaning you can't win, meaning you can't go up in ranks.

All the things that are frustrating with tournament-type activities in FFXIV it kinda just shows me that SE isn't ready to have the game modes because they don't put care into them. And people will cheat when you allow them too. That's why I'd be happy if rewards were just gone if SE can't give them only to people who deserve them.

Now tanks/healers not queuing doesn't go into the cheating category. Thats just taking advantage of the ranking system etc. All the issues could easily be solved if ranking was decided through public Feast events. Fixed timing. Monitoring.