People abusing party in progress option

[Sephirah]

Care to give us ANY details as what is being fixed or address as far as other "high priority tasks" go? Cause as of lately you guys seem to fail at communicating with the community. (✖╭╮✖)

They are hard at work judging our doppelganger screenshots! :P

[Bloodwillow]

Greetings,

The development team is aware of the fact that there are some players who will constantly withdraw when you are being matched with players via the Duty Finder. They plan on implementing countermeasures for this to decrease the frequency in which this happens; however, they will not be able to address this right away as there are other wrapped up with other high priority tasks. On another note regarding this, we do not plan on giving penalties to these players who withdraw when you are getting ready to commence due to the fact that there is a possibility that players who do not have malicious intent could be penalized.

We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.

Total BS. So they screw people over but don't get penalized for it? *slow clap* You are just leaving in an exploit that people can use .. if not that then a damn sure way to get what they want.

Why I REFUSE to use the DF anymore.

[Selkie]

Total BS. So they screw people over but don't get penalized for it? *slow clap* You are just leaving in an exploit that people can use .. if not that then a damn sure way to get what they want.

Why I REFUSE to use the DF anymore.

You don't even have a single class leveled to 50 so you obviously don't play the game so of course you don't use DF. *slow clap*

[Kat_Manx]

Couldn't you apply the penalty to a player that withdraws like... 10 times within 2 minutes or something? That doesn't happen "accidentally."

[Losian]

Couldn't you apply the penalty to a player that withdraws like... 10 times within 2 minutes or something? That doesn't happen "accidentally."

It does when you have to wait 40 minutes for a dungeon and happen to suddenly be in the middle of something else/dinner/etc. that you had to do while you were sitting in a game doing nothing otherwise.

[Kat_Manx]

It does when you have to wait 40 minutes for a dungeon and happen to suddenly be in the middle of something else/dinner/etc. that you had to do while you were sitting in a game doing nothing otherwise.

You misunderstood. If that happened to you, you would withdraw only once. Not 10 times within a 2 minute span. You'd be safe.

[TheRac25]

Couldn't you apply the penalty to a player that withdraws like... 10 times within 2 minutes or something? That doesn't happen "accidentally."

they could but then the universe would impolde if SE did anything that made sense

[Hobo]

Shame they won't be able to act faster on this. A large population of tanks out there is aware of this "free lunch" which makes the queues pop 10-20 times before you actually find a tank willing to do a full run.

[Zumi]

In WoW tanks did the same thing fished for a group that was in progress so they could get their Valor Points done fast. DPS complained about it. So Blizzard eventually took out the feature that showed how many bosses were killed when the queue popped. When I played WoW I was a tank I would also fish for a group that was almost done just because it kind of saved me time. You can't blame people for wanting to get their points done fast.

Its kind of weird now the same thing is happening in FFXIV.

[BlackShroudMercs]

Manipulating the system because you feel the need to be lazy should most definitely be a violation.

Its a shame they won't institute lock timers for these people. If you really have to back out of 3 or more different Q's in a row you should probably get offline and settle your business.

"I don't feel like doing the whole thing so I will waste other peoples time until I get what I want."

Awesome ...