Triple Triad Tournament... no longer worth the time

[Matrinka]

Every week it is available, I participate in the Triple Triad tournament. For various reasons, I usually just stick to the NPCs in the Gold Saucer. I'm not very competitive and don't feel like hunting around for people to play. It was fun playing the NPCs and the rewards were very good. I hit 60 cards by winning platinum packs. I never expected to be in the leaderboards, but 10k MGP and a card or two made the events fun for me.

I know I'm whining, but still, this new payout system seems like it is letting the cheaters who either play alts or pay people to lose on purpose take home the bigger prizes just feels like a slap in the face.

[Moonleg]

On my server, someone managed to get 17th place with 0 wins and something like 2700 points IIRC. That just looked crazy.

The old system WORKED, dammit.

[HaelseMikiro]

On my server, someone managed to get 17th place with 0 wins and something like 2700 points IIRC. That just looked crazy.

I got you beat this week. 10th place on the board with 0 wins/35 losses. SE needs to completely abolish the bonus points awarded based on your opponents tournament rank. Right now players who cheat early in the week still get more points for intentionally LOSING to someone in the top 20 then you get for BEATING an NPC.
At this point, anything SE hasn't tried to fix the tournaments, is better than everything they have tried

[Atamos]

It's totally broken right now, usually I get 20K MGP and 3 platinum cards with NPC's and today I got like 4K and no cards, that's ridiculous.

[Priya]

It's totally broken right now, usually I get 20K MGP and 3 platinum cards with NPC's and today I got like 4K and no cards, that's ridiculous.

Well... Guess I won't be playing it anymore. I only played NPCs because I just wanted MGP. It was the only reliable way to get consistently decent MGP without wanting to tear my eyeballs out.

Guess I'll never get my Golden Saucer toys (lolJumboCactpot).

[Chek]

Its not so much that the wintraders are getting more rewards than the people doing it the "legit" way, but its that they're getting ALL of the rewards and now the people not wintrading are getting pretty much nothing at all. Really shouldn't be like this.

[Antanias]

Its not so much that the wintraders are getting more rewards than the people doing it the "legit" way, but its that they're getting ALL of the rewards and now the people not wintrading are getting pretty much nothing at all. Really shouldn't be like this.

Why can't I like your post more than once? :O

[Azurymber]

I know for a fact a lot of ppl on the board cheated. so honestly I've pretty well lost all desire to play triple triad or participate in these tournaments.

[Edyth]

I know for a fact a lot of ppl on the board cheated. so honestly I've pretty well lost all desire to play triple triad or participate in these tournaments.

After spending a long time doing 40 Triple Triad matches and winning 36 against the NPC, is sucks to see people who won zero matches in the top 10 and my name pushed off the list completely. And then to get 6K MGP and no platinum cards, when I did better than I ever have?

I'm done with Triple Triad. I'm done with Gold Saucer. And I logged out of the damn game without doing anything else today after checking my rewards. I'm disappointed. Those tournaments were the only reliable way to get MGP. Goddammit.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

If this is how things are now, then I might as well stop playing in the tourneys. I still can't get 60 cards and I can't even beat other players, so I just farm NPCs for the card packs and make at least 10K MGP each time.