PvP Community

[Gundammeister]

Wondering what your PvP experience has been--

When I play an MMO I typically play all facets of the game: PvE, Crafting, PvP, etc. I have to say that the FFXIV PvP community is honestly the worst I've seen, and that's saying a lot. PvPers are always going to be a different class of player, but holy cow is it bad in this game. I haven't played a single match where some poor person, or myself, gets berated in a very rude fashion. It's sad because I was actually looking forward to PvP and I think today I'm going to call it quits because I simply cannot surround myself with that kind of vibe. It's not even an attempt to be helpful, just mean spirited brutal attempts to hurt people. What a shame... and a surprise coming from the FF community.

[Imapooonu]

Sorry to hear that bud :/

I don't normally care about the given "state of the community" I'm pvping in. I'm there for the thrill/challenge that's it. Some people just don't know how to trash talk lol. But ya pvp communities can be annoying and disheartening for sure.

Imo, some of the vented frustrations could be directly related to the gameplay environment of ff14 pvp. Forget sleeps, binds, dots, bunnyhops....what about the "race track" lol.

I know it's new and has problems, but I've never run around in circles this much in pvp...ever

[astrobearthe2nd]

really?


you think that ff14 is the worst pvp community on the net?



if so..


clearly you never played pvp in any other mmo if you think this.

go play LoL and 1st shooters then come back.

[Ryuko]

I don't think FFXIV's PvP community is terrible. I do, however, think there is something VERY WRONG with the fact that there is no matchmaking system. A team fresh out of the gate could be pitted against a rank 30 team with the best pvp gear.

I consider myself a decent PvPer. I know how to LoS/hide, I know how to mark, I know how to hard switch, I know how to CC... I like to communicate in voice chat when I can. And yet... people will still find a way to 'blame' you for something. I've only been treated rudely once -- and it was when the opposite team CC-locked me and mauled me very quickly, then downed our healer, and then our tank, and finally our melee DD. After the fight was over, the melee DD on my team verbally tore me apart for having horrible DPS because I'm a summoner and should (obviously) top the charts. He mentioned that he waaaaay out-dpsed me, which would be a no-brainer if he realized I was killed early on.

Some people take their frustration for PvP in general out on other people, and that just isn't right. Buuuuut.. I don't think FFXIV has the 'worst' PvP community. Far from it. Most people are nice, but perhaps a bit too quiet. I try to strategize and people are weirdly quiet... I prefer to play with people on voicechat for this reason.

[LongNu]

It's pretty light in my experiences amongst other, far more hardcore communities. People in this one tend to wound easily and they lash out more often. That being said, it could be better.

[TaneshimaPopura]

MoBA game community is the worst really. But I do understand the frustration people have to deal with when you get teammates who do not want to invest in Basic iLVl 55 Wolf gear. It's like expecting to land a job without credentials or going for an interview. It is almost the end of the 3rd week and you still see people who queue with such gear it is disheartening.

[Dauneth]

It doesn't have the worst PvP community, that would imply players are angry and vocal about bad things. That isn't how it plays out here.

However, it has one of the more.. what's the word - "New" PvP communities, in which a lot of people who are pvping have likely never PvPed before, and then you'll also have a lot of players who have PvPed a LOT. As a result, the skill level difference between teams and individual players is shockingly huge, where you basically have Gladiator teams against 4 solo queue players, and the results are pretty silly sometimes.

[Dauneth]

It certainly feels weird to have it set up this way, because new players get pounded in the face by seasoned vets (not just people with PvP gear, but people who've played PvP games before, whereas new players probably haven't even done that) and there's no real threshold that it stops happening at. In WoW for instance, if you were new or sucked or did poorly, you dropped down and got queued with people in a similar situation.

I don't think I've had many people rage in my games at all, unless someone is doing something totally wrong (BLM with 0 damage, anyone?) or comes in with level 30 gear on, which IMO you deserve to get harassed over, because that's just irritating and offensive to your team. One guy in a game I had just now was wearing a meteor survivor ring and a Aetherite ring as a Paladin, come on. If you're not there to PvP seriously, don't queue, you're not going to have fun and neither is your team.

[AldricBranchais]

I haven't PVP'd since a few weeks after it's launch, but judging from the game's forum PVP, the community as a whole isn't too bad. You still have a few 'tards tho.

[KoujiGeki]

Still can believe people actually thought that SE, already know for their horrible Pvp ideas, thought that 14 pvp would be "Good". lol