CC ranked que times

[brancinaed]

Why don't you just ask they remove Crystal Conflict then?
Last thing every PvP need is reward for participation.

I like Crystalline Conflict and I hate to see it ruined the same way by much of the same people who ruined the last PvP mode. I am suggesting they do remove ranked game mode, by the way, because it's corrupt at the top by cheating for rewards. I know it's a drastic and difficult thing to talk about, but I don't want people to quit this game because of competition with others. Especially if the competition is unfair with one side cheating and lying to scam others.

[Mistress_Irika]

I like Crystalline Conflict and I hate to see it ruined the same way by much of the same people who ruined the last PvP mode. I am suggesting they do remove ranked game mode, by the way, because it's corrupt at the top by cheating for rewards. I know it's a drastic and difficult thing to talk about, but I don't want people to quit this game because of competition with others. Especially if the competition is unfair with one side cheating and lying to scam others.

Some form of cheating will always exist when it comes to competitive rank games. That'll be up to the community to help fix. If you see signs of cheating report it. Of course, I can probably see how difficult it will be to get an immediate response seemingly that most of the player base don't care about pvp to begin with.

If you're wondering, the other pvp modes wasn't safe from cheaters. Stormblood there was a ton of bots running only shatter games. 2nd half of last expansion you had movement speed hackers if frontlines. Heck, even in Rival Wings you had an untargettable hacker in an oppressor at one point in time (I think RW was just a JP thing. Don't rely on me for that info however.). Not much you can do but to annoy the devs about it until it gets addressed.

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Look at my Join Date. I've played The Wolves' Den, The Fold, Slaughter, The Feast, Frontline, Rival Wings, Crystal Conflict. Trust me I have the experience.
I agree with all of your opinions. I feel really bad annoying the GMs, because this sort of is a thing the community has to help moderate.

[maximesan514]

I typically don't make forum posts but I didn't see a thread about the current state of CC que times. Maybe its just this DC? Even though its pretty active in terms of player base.

I thought I would share a grievance I spot at the moment. it seems like CC has declined sharply just due to the que times being so long (10-15 minutes 4-11 PM EST and usually with the same 10-13 people. this is plat+ for context).

During seasons one and two you could get a tons of games going prior to prime hours. Now you need to wait until those prime hours and sometimes those prime hours don't even trigger a single game. Yes I understand the game mode was new so its popularity rose sharply as endgame content but the dramatic fall is really what I wanted to point out here.

I understand with how the rank system works that it might deter people from participating, one might argue if you want to PvP, just play a PvP game since the PvE system is more robust. However, I cant help but wonder given that the ff team has clearly focused on PvP attention since the start of Endwalker, the current state of CC, at least to me, just feels like a massive let down in terms of reward structure and a systematic approach.

If I was to purpose for a fix, I would remove the ladder system or heavily revamp it. an example of a revamp would be, decay for top 100 and no de-ranking for crystal and below. Also allow people to travel to other DCs to que up for ranked. These near-term fixes would be a dramatic improvement for those who are active in PvP and would increase the PvP participation by the more casual base again.

game is bad, filled with cheaters, nobody wants to play that