permit FC queueing for Frontline

[Tridus1x]

I don't actually care about PVP. Just here to troll.

So you want a MMO that doesn't support you playing with your friends? It seems so.

How about in honor of your amazing input, we should put in the following in game features:
400k gil in order to play with anyone on friends list.
400k gil in order to play with anyone in your FC.
500k before entering coil with the same group.
You will have to be the same GC with your static in order to enter coil together. Why? "Lore"

Face it, people want to play with friends. Not sure what is so hard to understand. It's clear you have no interest in PVP, so you are of the mind of "Screw you, got mine." mentality. Asking them to jump leaps and bounds in order to play with friends, shouldn't be a thing in this game. When someone is rank 40 in PVP, it took quite a while to reach that part, because you dismiss it so easily shows that you never done PVP.

[Nestama]

I guess I'm one of the "weird ones" who would have more fun fighting against FC friends rather than with them. We'll be in Team Speak most likely and calling each other Sand People or Squid Faces.

[Baneus]

I guess I'm one of the "weird ones" who would have more fun fighting against FC friends rather than with them. We'll be in Team Speak most likely and calling each other Sand People or Squid Faces.

Pretty much. I actually know the slogans/catchphases of Storm and Flame members better than I know the ones for my own GC now.

[Vittorino]

I honestly couldn't agree with your more m8; it's a contradiction to the entirety of this system. I run a FC-COBRA on Cactuar it's "Immortal Flames" yet I'm Maelstrom- I shouldn't be allowed hold such a standing according to LORE wise.

SE, doesn't care until the carebear community starts crying about it. Just wait for the 99% to make a fuss and it will happen.

Just like the new Wolve's Den Finder LOL equalized Wolve's Den way to destroy competitive pvp more than it already is. There goes the 2hr ques to 5 days.

hopefully it changes soon

[Nabiri]

I would really like if FC members could queue together regardless of personal grand company affiliation. A few members of my FC are already switching GC so they can team up for Frontline together. I've been asked multiple times if I would switch, but my final decision was made ages ago when I joined the Twin Adder. I chose my favourite and don't intend to join one that I dislike.

I can't help but feel disappointed that I may not be able to play on my friends' team though. I sure hope that FC grand company affiliation can be used to team up.

[WellFooled]

I agree with Parz3val on this one. It might make sense from a lore perspective to keep it segregated by GCs, but from a gameplay perspective it doesn't and gameplay needs to come first. PvP in FFXIV is already hardly supported and Frontlines will have a hard time changing that if people can't freely play with their friends.

Square Enix has a habit of making really great content, but with weird and inconvenient restrictions. Sometimes they need us to tell them as much so the game can be improved.

[DenariusJay]

I agree with Parz3val on this one. It might make sense from a lore perspective to keep it segregated by GCs, but from a gameplay perspective it doesn't and gameplay needs to come first. PvP in FFXIV is already hardly supported and Frontlines will have a hard time changing that if people can't freely play with their friends.

Square Enix has a habit of making really great content, but with weird and inconvenient restrictions. Sometimes they need us to tell them as much so the game can be improved.

^^Pretty much this.

It's not like PVP is this game selling point anyways, so the fact they add all these little restrictions and annoyances just hurts it even more. I really hope the Dev's are reading this thread and giving it some though QUE times are atrocious and we can't even play with fellow FC members cause of GC restrictions, this is just really bad gameplay design, regardless if its fits the lore or not. Gameplay>lore.

[Edeline]

1) From previous experience on several games, faction based pvp is terrible, unbalanced and unenjoyable.
2) You're excluded to join your friends if they're in different GCs so you're bound to pug with random people and most likely get doomed to fail (lack of communication). Don't tell me you can change GCs because that's not a rational solution. Some people have cooldown on the GC switching, others might be doing certain GC achievements, others might lose their pvp ranks (following someone who made calcs on forums about it, would take nearly a year?).
3) For the above reasons, people will probably spam frontlines after update because it's something new, and will be ignored some time after that because people will be bored of losing and not enjoying frontlines while getting stomped by premades who were able to switch GC or already were in the same.

They should lower the cd to swtich GC drastically at least.

[Nestama]

Or if players have them on the same server, use your alts (if you were bored enough to level two different alts to 50 on the same server). Main on one GC and the other two on the other GC's. At least then you'd get to play with your friends (this is a bandage to something I have no issues with whatsoever as I'd rather fight against friends).

[Edeline]

Or if players have them on the same server, use your alts (if you were bored enough to level two different alts to 50 on the same server). Main on one GC and the other two on the other GC's. At least then you'd get to play with your friends (this is a bandage to something I have no issues with whatsoever as I'd rather fight against friends).

It's not about fighting against friends, it's about playing with them :]