I really hope this never, ever, happens here. For me, that would be a reason to unsubscribe and go play something else.
Yeah you're right... I really hope so, maybe I was just worrying too much. The official account of FFXIV Shanda ver. on Chinese social network posts their interactions with Yoshida regularly and even a recent visit to JP headquarter, giving me an impression that what they do are all permitted by SE. And many Chinese players see this as an experiment on their server before SE actually decide to apply it for all the servers.If it was, it would say so in the patch notes. This simply affects matchmaking based on the features we already have for it. The Chinese servers are hosted by Shanda and they made the call to remove the lvl sync, it wasn't SE's call.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm
From occasionally observing "Duty Status" i strongly believe the DF already assigns you to 1 of the any 5 duties the moment you join the que. I imagine the new algorithm will move your placing to different duties based on how soon it will be ready and how long you have been in the que.
Wait im giving too much credit.
Most likely we wont see silly party compositions in raids where we have 4 brds in party A and 4 blms in party B and 2 sch's in party C when both party A and B have all whm healers. An algorithm to make looting less competitive for dps and favor diversity for greater stat boosts across the board.
LOLWAT?
Last edited by KaedrianLiang; 03-31-2015 at 04:15 PM.
They are doing that also because they have to pay by the hour(?) minute(?) to connect to the internet over there. Would you want to pay to wait in a Q for 45 minutes? I didn't think so.If it was, it would say so in the patch notes. This simply affects matchmaking based on the features we already have for it. The Chinese servers are hosted by Shanda and they made the call to remove the lvl sync, it wasn't SE's call.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm
I have seen 8 WHMs do Titan HM. I believe in miracles. However, worse comes to worst, I will accept these derped queues for all the trial shenanigans.Most likely we wont see silly party compositions in raids where we have 4 brds in party A and 4 blms in party B and 2 sch's in party C when both party A and B have all whm healers. An algorithm to make looting less competitive for dps and favor diversity for greater stat boosts across the board.
Yes that's what they mean to "reduce difficulty for newbies": high lvl players steamroll contents to help newbies get drops and gils. However newbies will not be able to get any exp through the whole dungeon if there's someone with a lvl gap >11. And they even wrote this in preview version of patch note: if newbies really want to lvl through dungeons, they'd better use PF instead. I can see nothing but a newbies' nightmare...
That is communism.... Unacceptable if this system applied here, I will quit instantly.
my god...this sounds like trying to solve an ant infestation with C4...Yes that's what they mean to "reduce difficulty for newbies": high lvl players steamroll contents to help newbies get drops and gils. However newbies will not be able to get any exp through the whole dungeon if there's someone with a lvl gap >11. And they even wrote this in preview version of patch note: if newbies really want to lvl through dungeons, they'd better use PF instead. I can see nothing but a newbies' nightmare...
It's really funny because a lot of the critique for the game is that it's too easy, and the majority of chinese MMOs i've played use systems that they never fully explain to the players so Wiki Magician is practically a class choice in them.
My mind is boggling.
Yeah, there's definitely weird stuff going on sometimes. I quite often have the DF window up while I'm doing other stuff so I can guess how long I've got until it pops, and I'm always seeing already-queued roles drop off the list.From occasionally observing "Duty Status" i strongly believe the DF already assigns you to 1 of the any 5 duties the moment you join the que. I imagine the new algorithm will move your placing to different duties based on how soon it will be ready and how long you have been in the que.
I'm also guessing it doesn't do a very good job at pulling from the pool of available players based on what dungeons are actually unlocked for them, as I almost never get higher-level dungeons when randoming at 50, so I don't know where all the low-level players are ending up. And then there's times when you get randomed into a low-level dungeon where all four members are synced down but nobody actually specific queued for the place. That just seems wrong.
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