There is no reward for playing well.

[Curisu]

The reward for playing well is the increase of your rank and more currency.

[Claustrum]

The reward for playing well is the increase of your rank and more currency.

Okay, but what about matches where it's obvious that your team will not win? Why still play well? You get nothing for being the best player on the losing team.

[Iscah]

Okay, but what about matches where it's obvious that your team will not win? Why still play well? You get nothing for being the best player on the losing team.

You still keep trying.

It won't happen all the time, but I have seen CC matches clawed back from having the crystal halfway into the team's goal circle.

[Claustrum]

You still keep trying.

It won't happen all the time, but I have seen CC matches clawed back from having the crystal halfway into the team's goal circle.

Okay. I have a teammate who is afk in the base after dying once from rushing past the point before it unlocks. Why should I keep trying? The afk teammate gets no punishment. I get no reward.

Edit: In fact, if the 4 of us DO manage to claw a victory out of that, it rewards the afk teammate as well. That doesn't seem fair.

[Curisu]

Okay. I have a teammate who is afk in the base after dying once from rushing past the point before it unlocks. Why should I keep trying? The afk teammate gets no punishment. I get no reward.

Edit: In fact, if the 4 of us DO manage to claw a victory out of that, it rewards the afk teammate as well. That doesn't seem fair.

When you stop trying because it looks like a lost round, then you are one of the main reasons for the lose.
Never surrender and always try to win.

Report AFKs and griefer, when they do it regularly then they will get penalised.

But I would not be surprised to see you complaining about having a temp ban in a few weeks.

[Claustrum]

When you stop trying because it looks like a lost round, then you are one of the main reasons for the lose.
Never surrender and always try to win.

Report AFKs and griefer, when they do it regularly then they will get penalised.

But I would not be surprised to see you complaining about having a temp ban in a few weeks.

They don't get banned when I report them, and you should be surprised if I get banned, because I am one of the tryhards. I try so hard that I try to convince people that my hard tries deserve more reward than the afkers and true-heroes-who-can-solo-the-whole-enemy-team that I keep getting teamed with.

Edit: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...86#post6024086 My initial complaint about the fact. I still get into matches with the first person I ever saw afk in a match.

[RikkCavalier]

You still keep trying.

It won't happen all the time, but I have seen CC matches clawed back from having the crystal halfway into the team's goal circle.

↑ this 100%. I've seen the Crystal at 99.9% and we've turned it around and won. Dont just give up. And I personally, report the sore losers who just 'sit' out bc they're losing. It's up to square to follow-up and investigate and hopefully discipline those players with a timeout or whatever.

[Claustrum]

Or more accurately, my biggest complaint is that the worst player on the winning team gets infinitely more rewarded than the best player on the losing team, and the game frequently picks VERY unfair teams.

[Curisu]

Or more accurately, my biggest complaint is that the worst player on the winning team gets infinitely more rewarded than the best player on the losing team, and the game frequently picks VERY unfair teams.

That's how competitive team PvP is. You have that in every PvP game and you can't "fix" that issue.

Sometimes you lose and sometimes the other team wins.

You have to play many round's to make statistics work in your favour.
But when you really play better then everyone else then eventually you will rank higher and win more.

[Claustrum]

That's how competitive team PvP is. You have that in every PvP game and you can't "fix" that issue.

Sometimes you lose and sometimes the other team wins.

You have to play many round's to make statistics work in your favour.
But when you really play better then everyone else then eventually you will rank higher and win more.

Okay. But why attempt to play well when things are going badly?