Mahjong is the most depressing mini game you've added to XIV

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Both, though mostly just NPCs.

Yeah, that's why you're having fun with it. It's a lot easier to play against NPCs with fixed difficulties. I've been queued up with random people who are actually at the point of them being ranked. I'm still at Novice. But this game is going to push a LOT of people away from playing with others, due to having to sit around for 40+ minutes when they could be doing more with their time, more so with achievements being out of their reach once only the 'good' players are left. That's what happens when you force achievements into a mini-game that takes an ungodly amount of time into a game that you can only get said achievements with other players.

You can enter TT tournaments with NPCs and still get achievements/rewards from it. Why the hell did this have to go against the grain?

Edit: You can ALSO play that terrible Lord of Verwhatever game against NPCs for rankings as well.