No ‘Good Match!’ Until match end

[Vandi]

I know I should let this slide, but it’s another way of the devs throwing a blanket on deficiencies created directly by them.

Saying ‘Good Match’ at the start of a Crystal match is a passive aggressive way of saying ‘Aah, we’re screwed, goodbye cruel world.’ This directly falls out of line with Yoshi’s plan for match/player positivity and his goal of perfect world pvp, where eeeeveryone is respectful, works so well together like on the jp servers (I’m assuming?)

But here’s the thing. You see, you devs have it set up so that 5 of us (and I’ve used this analogy before) are sailors shackled to a ship on verrry stormy waters. All our ankles chained to the mast. That means ALLLLL 5 of us gotta row like our stupid little LIVES depend on it. Was it ALWAYS like this? No. Before, just one or two of us could go Super Saiyan and CARRY everyone. But because you devs are soooooooo insistent on driving the ‘team’ aspect of pvp to the point it’s just stifling, the individual damage ceiling is capped. That means, if I hit every burst perfectly, soak up every hit for other team mates my body can endure, blow up every person at low Hp I can get my hands on, I’m STILL going underwater to the depths below. . .because I’m shackled with George Blowhard who for the last 5 matches has landed on my team who has no CLUE how to play his job but REFUSES to stop queueing, making it a 4 vs 5 match.

There’s also the fact certain jobs just have no synergy stacked against other jobs. When I see a rpr, brd, pct, and dnc against a drg, mch, blm, smn, Sam etc, I’ve been in enough fights to know typically that doesn’t end well. At the moment, 9/10 pcts have no CLUE what they’re doing. Reaper. . .needs help with its dps to get to max, and the above jobs aren’t known for racking up kills. And sure, I know, I’m supposed to think positive. But when George Blowhard lands on my team in that setup, I know I’m on borrowed time when that gate opens. Hence, ‘Good Match!’ A warning to my fellow crew mates that they’re about to realistically die horribly. But. . .

. . .you took that away now too.


. . .just like you took away chat.
Just like you took away crits.
Just like you took away auto attack
Just like you replace every spammable ability with a slower weapon skill
Just like you gave monk 6k fireballs. 6k fireballs.
Just like you ruined blackmage
Just like you took out gear bonuses
Just like you took away 24-man frontlines.
Just like you make NO effort to make a damage check/test before beginners enter matches to show they at LEAST grasp the fundamentals, the bare buttcheek basics.

[Vandi]

And I know, iiiiiii know, you allllllways have some kind of justifiable excuse on the road to perfect world pvp, but jezuz Christ, heaven forbid we express ANY kind of distress. No marking. No chat. No sending tells after matches to tell a person who can’t break 60k to just go to the damn wolves den. Just smile, do a lil respectable bowing, and enjoy the fights.

I keep saying there’s nothing left to water down the pvp experience even further but. . .my god man.

[Volfe]

I hope they don't remove others it's funny seeing people rage in quick chat

[Burmecia]

"nise job" still works for passive aggressive moments, right?
just move onto use that

[IDontPetLalas]

"No "Good match" until match end- yes, thank you OP, for reminding us that sometimes Square gets something right.

[Exmo]

Good match.

[Mawlzy]

"No "Good match" until match end- yes, thank you OP, for reminding us that sometimes Square gets something right.

Agreed, but what does it say about the player base that they felt they had to.

[Sinstrel]

Just work with your team instead of RP'ing as the Warrior of Light.

Instead if trying to go "super saiyan" doing 1M damage alone into an AST, pump 50k dmg onto a stun while thier purify is on cooldown. Teamwork. You cant make your team do what you want but you can watch what they are doing and increase thier effectiveness by adding onto whatever they are doing.

[Alyko]

(Toxic Toxicson) Nice job!
(Toxic Toxicson) Nice job!
(Toxic Toxicson) Nice job!
(Toxic Toxicson) Nice job!
Toxic Toxicson marks you as "Target to Ignore 1".

[VictorSpoils]

The entire mode is vapid, designed to bring out the worst in people. Every match has win-traders/griefers, causing an avalanche effect of griefing since there's no point in trying to win when the teams are imbalanced.

They removed conventional chatting to prevent BM...only to reprimand people for BMing with the chat commands. Why not have a cooldown on the chat commands to mitigate spam? Why bother limiting "Good Match!" to the end of matches when 1) it's still used passive aggressively there too, 2) "Hello" and "Nice Job!" are also misused, and 3) all three of these commands are worthless in terms of gameplay, which happen to be the only three commands most people use, passive aggressively or otherwise? Why not have a "Focus Fire!" command, since people not KOing anyone is the reason most matches are a waste of time?

All you routinely see are a few hollow "Hello"s at the start followed by an immediate deathfest, closing out with someone dropping a "Good Match!" before re-queuing and doing it again with the same teammates. Speaking of which...