Can FFXIV Executives/Devs/GMs start doing some work?

[Bureda]

Hello. I hope this post finds you all well?

There's rampant cheating going on in the scene
- https://x.com/Seyren/status/2054344395978068380

It's taking GMs weeks to act.

Can the Devs put some actual human beings behind managing PvP? You've neglected this mode with unlimited potential for over 5 years now.

- The PvP Balancing is done by AI, favouring jobs like BLM/PCT/MNK/BRD
- The PvP Patch Notes is done by AI because the changes do not match the intentions expressed
- There is too much crowd control
- Jobs like BLM/MNK/PCT do too much damage whilst being too tanky
- There's too many ways to break Guard
- You have actively pursued to make this mode unfun because you do not actively play it yourselves.

Can the executives sort out DIRECT COMMUNICATION with the Balance Team and active player base? It's the year 2026 and your Forums is segregated for no reason.

You're actively trying to supress your community instead of listen to feedback. Have you not learned anything from Blizzards stupidity?

Yours Sincerely,
Someone trying to make this game more fun for all.

[MisterNublet]

What is worse is that while this is obvious cheating, there is a ton of cheating going on in PvP. They're just smarter about being less obvious about it.

[MsMisato]

BLM is a literal glass cannon. it sounds like you got a player that knows how to play the job in PvP. they have a shield, 2 insta casts dmg/heal , then pots. I do agree guard shouldn't be interruptible once its up though should either by you enough time to delay your impending doom or allow to you turn the tables.

[Stormfur]

The guy is literally clipping out of bounds. If that doesn't get him punted out of rankings, I don't know what would. I was in a match with someone last night that had constant shield bash up. Bash bash bash every three seconds.

[ThreeBeastSmile]

I was in a match with someone last night that had constant shield bash up. Bash bash bash every three seconds.

Maybe he just misses HW PLD that much...

I dunno tbh, I've muttered it to myself whenever things reach a bit of an overwhelming pitch with regards to the observed corruption but... just delete ranked? Seriously, just delete ranked. Let the funni minigame live up to its rep in more relative peace, ye? Ranked never really had a place in this game anyway.

If somehow the population doing PvP exploded then at least there'd be the buffer of greater variety to be matched against to not run into that so much, burying the rot under the sheer amount of bodies queuing, but alas. It do be like this rn instead. A farce.

[Valence]

Reminder that the correct link to report cheating is to the Special Task Force with as much evidence as possible. GMs through normal reports, when not answering their usual copy pasta, will redirect you to it anyway.

They act at a glacial pace and it's inexcusable, but what can we do about it anyway...