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

[MerleSirlos]

I'm talking about the personal player rating, where you start off at 1500. You can start losing points right away. I got second once for 9 points to my rating, then I got third once for -9 points, and then fourth once for -29 points. I got lucky when I got second point, against 3 other people who had a similar level to me skill wise. But those other two games I had people who had 5th/6th ranking.

but that's normal and how personal ratings work. it just came out so everyone start at the same player rating, be it ultra novice, bad players and good players. unless you start as a good player yourself you need to let some time pass so that the good players get to higher personal ratings so you can avoid them until you reach their level.