Dear Yoshi & Team: About Current TT Tournament Model

[Aikaal]

It really hurts to see something that valuable thrown away. It's probably a message directed toward SE. "I'd rather not use something I cheated/cheesed for or anyone get it. That's not the point of of TT. The point is to collect all the cards and throwing Lightning Card away is probably not one of them. I'm honestly pretty mad I,m gonna cheese to get Cecil next week. I really want the cards, I'm not the only one in this boat.

Can you fix the tournament rules? Like.... make it so we don't choose our opponents at least?

[Latarma]

with pvp win trading and no TT win trading and countless other in game exploate being used you think SE would fix some of the problems but as far as i know people still win trade in pvp so ten to one they'll still win trade in the TT tournament. it's not liek SE has a great track record of fix huge issues just my 2 cents

[ChocoFeru]

Yeah, people will still cheat it even having the cards to get that huge extra MGP.

[ChocoFeru]

Any news about the "Tournament"?

[RobinRethiel]

Any news about the "Tournament"?

No, they will change some things with Patch 2.55, but no infos yet.

[Grekumah]

Any news about the "Tournament"?

Apologies for the delay for providing an update regarding adjustments to the Triple Triad Tournament, as we understand many of you have been looking forward to participating in them.

First off, we are not going to be making adjustments to the current tournament for the following reasons:

1. If we were to make adjustments to the active tournament it would affect the development of Patch 2.55 and Heavensward.

2. Since this tournament uses a system that follows a set rotation schedule, if we were to stop a tournament midway through, it wouldn't be possible to obtain the rare cards that are available from the current tournament until much later, and this would disappoint many players who were looking forward to trying to obtain those cards.

We are, however, planning to make adjustments to the tournament rules in Patch 2.55. After this, we will also make additional minor adjustments moving forward. We're still in the process of making final adjustments, and we will announce the specific details at a later date.

[Shake0615]

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Thanks for the reply, Greg. But can you address the concern that people who win tournaments (fairly or not) will wind up with a permanent advantage (the rare card), thus creating an uneven playing field and still incentivizing cheating? As I have understood it from the community, awarding powerful cards in TCGs is not standard practice for the above reasons and I'd hate to see something like that hurt TT.

[Omegakiyohime]

Thanks for the reply, Greg. But can you address the concern that people who win tournaments (fairly or not) will wind up with a permanent advantage (the rare card), thus creating an uneven playing field and still incentivizing cheating?

The tournament rewards are no more powerful than the other FF protagonist cards available through other methods. It has certain side advantages and certain side weaknesses. Now if it had As on every side that would be an issue, but it doesn't and like most 5 star cards can be great or bad depending on the situation, the placement, and the rules in place.

[BlaiseArath]

Grekaleken

The only people looking forward to obtaining those rare cards are the very same abusing the system so much that it needs to be changed >_>...

But i understand why you're holding off until the next patch instead of a Hotfix. I'm grateful you're changing it, and hopefully it works out for the better. Hopefully someday in the future I can look forward to obtaining these cards. Cause as it stands now, literally the day of the tournament, theres already someone (even with random) sitting at 20/20 wins... My only hope at this point is to maybe place high enough to get a decent amount of MGP.

I'd make a recommendation... even with fixing the tournament, can i recommend adding new ways to get these Tournament cards? Or at least distribute them to the top 20 instead of just the top 3?

[Aeyis]

2. Since this tournament uses a system that follows a set rotation schedule, if we were to stop a tournament midway through, it wouldn't be possible to obtain the rare cards that are available from the current tournament until much later, and this would disappoint many players who were looking forward to trying to obtain those cards.

Currently the only ones who look forward to obtaining those cards are those that win-trade.
As someone who legimately won a Lightning card I can say that anyone that doesn't win-trade just won't stand a chance to get 1th-3rd place in the tournaments. It's completely impossible with the random rule that the current tournament has, in fact.