Commendations after 500

[Majidah]

So last night I finally hit 500 commendations and got my magitek, but as a friend told me, once you hit 500 ... there's really no incentive to give or recieve commendations. Are there any plans to add new commendation related achivements?

[Cyrus-Wallace]

I might refer you to this thread: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...dation-Rewards

I don't know why you wouldn't give commendations if you reached the 500 already. Maybe they didn't get their 500 com yet. Also, it's a way you have to tell them that they did a great job or you enjoyed running with them.

[Majidah]

I might refer you to this thread: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...dation-Rewards

I don't know why you wouldn't give commendations if you reached the 500 already. Maybe they didn't get their 500 com yet. Also, it's a way you tell them that they did a great job or you enjoyed running with them.

Oh thanks, I'll go check it out now. Well, I give and recieve my commendations from PVP mostly, so standing there after the match is over with such long queues for such small amount of play time when the others might not even bother giving them is a bit of a waste of time specially now that I don't need them lol I think people who complain about giving them being a hassle aren't going about them the right way (and by this I mean harvesting them at pvp. 3 commends in less than 5 min? that's the way to get them).

That's not the main problem though, it's more of a personal wish, like, I see them commend me and it doesn't mean anything in the bigger picture anymore

[Archadius]

So last night I finally hit 500 commendations and got my magitek, but as a friend told me, once you hit 500 ... there's really no incentive to give or recieve commendations. Are there any plans to add new commendation related achivements?

No incentive to give or receive? Maybe to receive there is little point, but you can still give commendations to any player who left a positive impact on you (as you should). Maybe someone else would like to get that Gold Magitek as well...

[Cspr_Answrth]

There is incentive to GIVE commendations - there is a challenge log that gives scaling experience point returns depending on your current level.

[Majidah]

There is incentive to GIVE commendations - there is a challenge log that gives scaling experience point returns depending on your current level.

All my DoW and DoW are 50 :x

[Ecks007]

All my DoW and DoW are 50 :x

Hey, that's an extra free 1k gil every week just for clicking a button 5 times in one week. Why pass up free money?

Not to mention it completes a challenge in your challenge log, possibly completing a secondary challenge in the process for even more free gil.

It's not much, but it takes literally no effort and adds up..... and it's easy free gil.

[NyneAlexander]

You could just continue to give comms to, oh i dunno, be a good person.

[Majidah]

You could just continue to give comms to, oh i dunno, be a good person.

I'll just quote one person, cause... well, I'm seeing this argument a lot.

And it's extremely flawed. It wouldn't surprise me if none of the people who have bringing this up have not obtained their achievement at all.

A lot, in fact, most of the time when doing short repeatable content, there is no one worthy of mention. And no chatting is done either.

And runs like these actually occupy the biggest part of venturing. So people who say "oh what an asshole, he isn't handing out commendations" are IMO being extremely short sighted, seeing most of the time no one merits a commendation.

[Welsper59]

I'll just quote one person, cause... well, I'm seeing this argument a lot.

And it's extremely flawed. It wouldn't surprise me if none of the people who have bringing this up have not obtained their achievement at all.

A lot, in fact, most of the time when doing short repeatable content, there is no one worthy of mention. And no chatting is done either.

And runs like these actually occupy the biggest part of venturing. So people who say "oh what an asshole, he isn't handing out commendations" are IMO being extremely short sighted, seeing most of the time no one merits a commendation.

You know, there's something wrong about essentially getting praised (commendation) and expecting to get a reward out of it lol. I mean, I'd hope people don't expect money or something if we're part of a team working on a project IRL, when someone on the team says "good job" to them. Heck, I'd hope people ingame don't expect something out of someone saying "GG" to them after a run. When I'm saying something nice, or even giving out a commendation, I see it as just fluff. You don't need to be rewarded for being nice (or trying to be). You don't need to be rewarded for helping someone else. It doesn't have to be meaningful to give or receive with something like this. Or do people need to be sincere in taking the second or two to type out "GJ" or "nice job" in party chat before they actually do it?