Quote Originally Posted by DallsBeep View Post
So a PVP mode needs people who can't and/or aren't interested in PVP to survive? If the population of PVPers is so small and irrelevant that a few small parties can completely dominate the matchmaking without anyone to oppose them, then they deserve the benefits of being dominant.
You seem to be under the mistaken belief that the ones dominating (or dictating rather, they make the rules for the mode and not Square-Enix) do so based on talent or skill when that's highly debatable for an untold amount of them, or that the key to making PVP "better" is to evolve it from toxic to downright radioactive.

All you're asking for is a different but equally awful clown fiesta where the premade and plugin use would remain rampant if not escalate because those groups don't want competition, they want to be spoon-fed, as evident by how they conduct themselves right now, including the part where they specifically came to Dynamis for quicker leveling (something you think they're not interested in using the mode for) because they're guaranteed to win against a data center full of people who are just now stepping into PVP for the first time to level as well (doubly so for the 4 new servers) because the queues before were so bad, most never bothered with it at all until Dawntrail (or in my case, I data center traveled when it was still allowed). Ironically, removing XP for the loser (which I assume includes 3rd *and* 2nd place) would see the newer folks clearing out and writing off the entire mode, and the exclusive club just win-trading with each other for the 1st place rewards until they hit 100 on everything (and then stay to max out their series rewards if they haven't already).

So the PVE folks don't even show up anymore, and the PVP folks don't even seriously fight (or fight at all). At that junction the mode might as well be removed entirely because it failed to provide any sort of meaningful content for anyone, and it's not even an outlandish idea either because they've patched out PVP modes before. At best, they leave it but abandon it entirely like they did Rival Wings, while likely removing maps and the roulette bonus from it, if not nerf rewards completely, to discourage exploitation. With little to gain and nobody to decimate, I doubt the queue for it would ever pop again outside of mogtomes events, assuming they bothered to include it much like how Crystaline Conflict is made to sit those out.