Frontlines

[Talaquen]

"With the Allagan ruins in the Carteneau Flats all but destroyed in conflict between the three Grand Companies, Alphinaud's new organization (whatever they're called) has taken the initiative to broker new cooperation between the city-states. In order to allow adventurers of all walks and allegiances to polish their skills to defend Eorzea, war games will continue in Carteneau without Grand Company restriction."

Oh how one paragraph of exposition could let me play with my friends whenever we want, and without treading on the all important story.

[DividedSky]

No thanks. I have a linkshell with 124 members and a free company solely based on being adders that would disagree. There are also many people with achievements on each GC that would disagree. Many of us who PvP regularly like seeing familiar faces. When you teach people it feels like an investment BC you know theyre on your team. If you are close enough friends someone will switch.

[Kassiekane]

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How closed-minded of you. In one statement you just disregarded everyone who is unhappy with their current GC, who are unable to play with friends that do not want to lose their PvP progress, and most of all you disregarded everyone who wants freedom to que with whoever they want to - because your linkshell and free company are more important than the PvP majority.

Oh and here's the best part: the removal of GC restrictions will not prevent you from queuing with the people you recruited.

[Iagainsti]

Removing the GC restriction would not be great. Gives us regular pvp'ers that patriotic pride, on Zalera at least, we do have countless pvp'ers from the different factions who love the bragging rights. I say leave it as is and just give us more maps/pvp options.

[kpxmanifesto]

Removing the GC restriction would not be great. Gives us regular pvp'ers that patriotic pride, on Zalera at least, we do have countless pvp'ers from the different factions who love the bragging rights. I say leave it as is and just give us more maps/pvp options.

Are you ok with the current queue times???

[Iagainsti]

Are you ok with the current queue times???

It does bite when the wait time is over 15 minutes, but that would be solved more or less by more people getting into pvp, not removing the faction system. If people were as interested in Wolf marks as they are Poetry, we wouldn't have the half those wait times. Another option would be for FL to give 30 poetry per match, up from 20, to make it a more viable farm, but I believe they're going that route with Roulette.

[Talaquen]

I don't see how removing restrictions on who you can queue with would result in you not seeing familiar faces. It'd increase the familiarity amongst your own server's PvP population by letting them queue together whenever they want.

[DividedSky]

Because I'll be playing with 3x as many people..... I'll have 1/3 of the chance to be qued with those same people. Statistically its probably less than that..... either way what you are asking for won't happen ...sorry

[Atreus]

As happy as I am to see the same faces on the Flame side on a good night, I'd love to mix the bag up. My team and I have made good friends on opposing GC's just by Frontlining. Would be lovely to end up fighting with them every now and then just as much as against.

I'm surprised no one's ever brought up those three factions from 1.0. Brotherhood of the Broken Blade, etc. (don't remember the others), since lore is a factor.

[Blubbers]

Would be lovely to end up fighting with them every now and then just as much as against.

Oh my god if we ended up in the same alliance as you guys that would be like fishing with dyanmite