Down with gc restrictions!!!

[Vandril]

Then don't do it. lol. I hated Alex farming and Atma grinding in 2.1 but I did it anyway because it needed to be done. No one is forcing anyone to do anything, but if you choose to go higher in the Ranks, be prepared to deal with it.

No, see, people won't have the option to deal with it or just not do it, since this change will never be made to begin with. Let's be real, here. Square will never do this due to the inevitable backlash from PvEers who want nothing to do with PvP.

Also, if GC ranks were a PvE system then why lock the petty officers then? what's the point? It's like "Oh look, King Moogle gets Savage mode." big frigging whoopy doo. Go beat it up so you can go up one rank and grind more F.A.T.E.S for seals. Boring.

What are you even going on about? Regarding your first sentence in the quote above: that makes literally zero sense, so I have no idea what you mean.

Regardless, it's not "if GC ranks were a PvE system". GC ranks are a PvE system. The GC rank system currently involves only PvE content.

You kill two birds with one stone, you get a universal pool of players for GC's to soften queue times, you get the people who WANT to grind it queueing up,

No. What you'll end up with is maybe a handful of new people queuing for PvP that weren't already and the rest of the PvEers complaining on the forum until the system is changed and a PvE method of obtaining the new GC ranks is implemented. At which point the new queuers for PvP stop queueing, Square ends up having wasted time changing the system to appease the (rightful) complainers, and nobody is the better off from where it all started.

if they hate it. Tough crap, don't do it, no one is forcing you.

No offense, but you'd make a truly terrible game designer with a philosophy like this.