Square: What happened with playing Triple Triad anywhere?

[WellFooled]

I think it would have been infinitely more awesome to walk around Housing Wards challenging various people at their Estates.

That sounds awesome, I agree, but in practice there are hundreds of estates. Allowing the matches there would only dilute the Triple Triad player base. Since there is no duty finder, I think the people that are looking for matches need to be consolidated into just a handful of locations.

[Nalien]

That sounds awesome, I agree, but in practice there are hundreds of estates. Allowing the matches there would only dilute the Triple Triad player base. Since there is no duty finder, I think the people that are looking for matches need to be consolidated into just a handful of locations.

Allowing matches anywhere wouldn't dilute the playerbase, it would simply mean you can play Triple Triad anywhere. People who are "farming" will still gravitate to the NPCs regardless. All this restriction does is prevent the community from enjoying the game anywhere. Rather than going "Hey, want to play Triple Triad?" and just playing Triple Triad, we have to go to a designated area for no conceivable reason. You can't challenge random people you meet while doing other content and you can't have private matches in your home, nor can you work on interesting community driven events. There are plenty of Estates, sure, but something like a Free Company Triple Triad Tournament is something you'd set up and get people interested in for a short time; I recall there being a Free Company that sets up a Maid Cafe around Valentines Day, it would be similar to that.