Dear Yoshi & Team: About Current TT Tournament Model

[Zanarken]

They will do it.
The "fix" will occur in the next patch which will be after the next tournament is played.
So the Cecil card goes to another cheat.

How is this acceptable? This would never be tolerated if it impacted the raiding community. Imagine if the new Alexander raid became available, the first static to enter found a way to circumvent it, then were rewarded with exclusive loot that no one else on the server could obtain. Then were allowed to keep said loot. That is exactly what is going on here. Seriously, just cancel the upcoming tournament SE. Its what you should have done with the first tournament on day 1, when reports from every server suggested match fixing/buying wins took place. Hosting a second tournament under the same conditions will only further damage the Triple Triad community. Anyone who possesses a Lightning Card is treated with disdain as there is a strong likelihood it was obtained through dishonorable means. Do not do the same with the Cecil card.

[Siyron]

How is this acceptable? This would never be tolerated if it impacted the raiding community. Imagine if the new Alexander raid became available, the first static to enter found a way to circumvent it, then were rewarded with exclusive loot that no one else on the server could obtain. Then were allowed to keep said loot. That is exactly what is going on here. Seriously, just cancel the upcoming tournament SE. Its what you should have done with the first tournament on day 1, when reports from every server suggested match fixing/buying wins took place. Hosting a second tournament under the same conditions will only further damage the Triple Triad community. Anyone who possesses a Lightning Card is treated with disdain as there is a strong likelihood it was obtained through dishonorable means. Do not do the same with the Cecil card.

It's already happening. Can't beat them, become them.

[Madigari]

Ready your friends, ready your alts, ready your gil. It's almost time again.

And the best part is that it's the Random rule! So legitimate players are even more screwed at the idea of getting a good score, while the people using the "exploits" are in an even more primed place to win yet again.

[Archadius]

In the words of Officer Michaels...

"I can't believe this is happening again..."

[Nyalia]

Yay. Time to win 10 times vs Elmer and sell whatever matches I have left over.

[Kiara]

To Grekumah and the Dev Team:

Besides the rampant cheating going on (and win-selling, etc.), can you at least pass along our feedback about the *fundamental problem* of Triple Triad Tournaments awarding Rare, Powerful Cards to ONLY the winners?

There have been multiple threads and posts on this, but looking at successful Trading Card Games and systems out there, there's a reason you don't award and give a major advantage of a Rare, Powerful Card ONLY to a few select people in the world. It wrecks the balance of the game.

That's like you saying, you're only giving away Dreadwyrm Weapons or Armor to the Winners of a [PVP Tournament] and no one else can earn them.

Inherently, the rewards should be something that won't break Balance, like a GLAMOUR version of a Card (same stats, but unique Art), or Big MGP payouts, etc. Or even Glamour Equipment. But not Rare, Powerful Cards.

Thanks.

[LineageRazor]

There have been multiple threads and posts on this, but looking at successful Trading Card Games and systems out there, there's a reason you don't award and give a major advantage of a Rare, Powerful Card ONLY to a few select people in the world. It wrecks the balance of the game.

Does obtaining a Lightning card, whether through fair means or foul, really create any sort of imbalance? Lightning is a five-star card, and while powerful is pretty much on-par with other five-star cards. And, AS a five-star card, you can have no more than one in your deck. If you include Lightning, you're giving up on any of the others. You can't even claim that her 9 1 7 A pattern makes her an unexpected attack vector - Onion Knight (8 2 8 A) and Raubahn (6 2 9 A) have similar strengths (weak right, powerful left, decent up and down).

I don't buy that having a Lightning card will make its owners any more or less difficult to beat than they would be without it. Now as card COLLECTORS, of course, having Lightning as a tournament reward is pretty awful since it makes it ridiculously difficult to complete your collection. (Especially if they ever retire it as a reward to make way for a new tournament reward, making it unobtainable for anyone that hasn't gotten it already.) For that, I definitely sympethize, and is a large part of why I'll likely never get serious about collecting cards.

[Javarr]

Well, here's a thought:

Players can only face a single person once per tournament. If they try to rematch them under tournament settings, it would simply count as a standard match. Apply this to both NPCs and PCs.

So if someone wants to do this "Win Selling" it's gonna be a lot harder sense they can only throw one match per person. So in order to "Buy" Your way into the higher ranks, you'd have to find ALL of the 15 top ranked, get them ALL to agree to throw (Which I'm pretty sure some would not). Problem solved.

[Aeyis]

Well, here's a thought:

Players can only face a single person once per tournament. If they try to rematch them under tournament settings, it would simply count as a standard match. Apply this to both NPCs and PCs.

So if someone wants to do this "Win Selling" it's gonna be a lot harder sense they can only throw one match per person. So in order to "Buy" Your way into the higher ranks, you'd have to find ALL of the 15 top ranked, get them ALL to agree to throw (Which I'm pretty sure some would not). Problem solved.

I'm not sure if you understand the problem. This is exactly the sort of win-trading that is already happening.

[Devils_Lawyer]

Cactuar.

2nd and 3rd place: 19 wins out of 20 matches with roughly 1900 points.

1st place: 9 wins out of 20 matches and 2000 points.

Why even bother making another tournament before fixing the issue cause now yet another cheater is going to walk away with a fancy card and tons of MGP.