Competitive Integrity in Crystalline Conflict: PvP Promotion vs. Ranked Reality

[KENZD]

Nowadays i'm retirrd from EU and NA and i'll come back only if they implement the TOTAL RANK RESET every seasons and the CC RANKED allowed for ONE character per region/account but they will never do it so Sayonara everyone and good luck with this S**** mode and to all new players: "GOOD LUCK" climbing ranks if you don't have friends or boosters to play with but if you enjoy spending hours and days of your lifes in a non competitive mode GGs.

PS# LET THE SCRIPTERS, ALTERS AND WINTRADERS PLAY BETWEEN THEMSELVES CUZ THEY HAVE NO TALENTS & JOIN US ON THE ONLY SUPERIOR DC (JP) ❤️ CUZ I REPEAT TO ALL MY HATERS "THE JOB IS DONE"

[Gallus]

Ngl that sounds awful. I was aware of the infamous wintrading trio but I didn't know people were using hacks to hide behind walls or teleport in games (I feel like this is a little harder to notice in this game given how we've all grown so accostumed to seeing players slide all over the place because of how FFXIV handles movement in general). SE should not be lenient with all this stuff, just like how they are very fast in banning over harassment, they should protect their ranked queue too.

[Stormfur]

Good video talking about it

Yes that's right square enix, check out some of this footage. And your GMs are doing nothing about it, or way too glacially.

Post this on the JP forums too if you haven't already (I see that's where your home server is).

[Valence]

Post this on the JP forums too if you haven't already (I see that's where your home server is).

I'm on EU.

I could do this, but ultimately what would this change? This is going to be awkward because nobody in the JP playerbase will care about it, it doesn't happen on their datacenter. Why should they feel concerned about it? At best some may express curiosity but that's about it.

[KENZD]

Sadly the cheating is nothing compared to the wintrading and the numbers of alts in unranked and above

[Stormfur]

Ah, sorry, my mistake.

I mention it because as I recall, YoshiP and team were pretty oblivious at how bad RMT spam and the like were on NA (and maybe EU?) servers until many, many comments from the community imploring him to visit actually made him go "Oh wow this really is a big problem", and changes were made. It's not totally solved, of course but it's nowhere near what it was.

[Valence]

I truly think that Yoshida at this point either

1) Doesn't even know about anything that's not JP
2) Doesn't give a crap about the state of other regions

These two past seasons have been a total disaster EVERY FUCKING DAY and all the GMs will tell you is that "investigations take time." Yeah, until one offender gets temp banned 2 seasons later and comes back the next one anyway.

Like I have genuinely no clue how they can still think that leaving their ranked game mode in such a state is ok somehow.

[MayuAmakura]

You could always start an off site space, like a Facebook fan page or a Discord server.
The Primal PvP community discord used to be pretty aggressive about calling out hackers and cheaters and would even allow people to post their names.
These days, though, it feels like they’ve backed off from doing that.

They backed off because some people would go to such extent that they would actively pursue or stalk people in-game and talk about them 24/7 which led to some very troublesome behavior. Then we had examples of "best CC people" and players who come to square Crystaline Conflict tournament being toxic as well but they were hiding under fake smile all the time. So then a smaller group created another discord to continue provoking. Just check all of them who are actively going to tournaments to play CC. All of them look "happy and nice" on stream, but once they go on discord or in-game, they will harass players and tell ugly stuff. It's all a fake pretending smile thing.

[MayuAmakura]

While wintraders and cheaters might be a "small" portion, remember that CC alone has miserable amount of people, especially for EU. So this alone makes a huge damage. In many days when you fight same people over and over, you get the idea of how bad it will get.

As for teleportation, glitches and wall hacks, yes those are present and were present even before. Many people used a 3rd party tool to instantly teleport back to the entrance of frontline to escape and cheat death. Considering that now many classes can dash / glitch through walls (like astro), we can observe more and more players doing the same just with different classes. Do any of them get banned? Maybe, but square has backed off from doing that unless someone "popular" comes and tells them in face.

The entire mode is just pure garbage and deserves to be deleted since square doesn't care about anyone here and will continue to buff unnecessary things, won't fix ping and lag, will allow people to use 3rd party tools. How many of them have you seen to have perfect execution of barrier? Just right when they need to? How many players never use barrier despite being 1v4 unless a whm does an lb onto them? Even from far away they will do it if it can hit them. There's so much sus crap in this mode already and documented.

Sadly even players that you might think are good and nice, are actually very bad behaving and cursing on other players who aren't their friends. Thus why CC has this issue if you aren't friends of "popular" people.

[ChrysOCE]

I truly think that Yoshida at this point either

1) Doesn't even know about anything that's not JP
2) Doesn't give a crap about the state of other regions

Coming from a former OCE citizen, the answer is both.