Verminion Tournament unable to complete - nobody playing

[Dyvid]

I'm thinking of trying out a PF this weekend and see if I can't get more people to bite.

[Bebekurenai]

The controls for PS3/4 really are horrible XD And I'm not going to buy a mouse specifically for this, since it seems I'll just have to borrow my bf and get the 10 wins for the minion and never attempt it again :/

:goes to the corner and cries:

[Kalinas]

All I want from LoV are the new minions, then I'm done with it. If I could actually win 10 matches in one tournament it would be one thing, but everytime I try it I get stomped. Controller mode is unplayable and way disadvantaged compared to mice/keyboard. Managed to get 10 wins once out of the 4 tournaments we've had and that was with a friend late at night. All in all, it's just not fun.

[Alberel]

They would have more people playing LoV if it didn't have the stupid requirement of being in the area in order to queue for multiplayer matches.

People simply don't want to hang around in that room for their entire play session waiting for a match. If someone wants to play they go in, see the room empty and promptly leave again because there's no one to play against. The only real way to get more people in matches is to allow people to queue from anywhere just like anything else in the DF.

[Bloodb]

Sunday prime time I sit in queue for an hour from 6pm-7pm just playing the mining/botany mini game...

I love Lords of Verminion and it feels like a waste of development time to make something no one can play.


Please let us queue from anywhere and make it data-center based.

[BlatantPyre]

While I get that letting us queue from anywhere kind of breaks the immersion factor, which I'm usually against...I actually enjoy playing LoVM too, but right now it's just impossible. Every tourney, I queue up and chill while I read the forum or do other stuff online (instead of FFXIV) and wait for the win-traders to come and yell at me and then play "who-can-wait-the-longest" with them...for hours...

DF is a must at this point. As for queue from anywhere...I'll take it. I don't want to, but if it helps fix this problem, I say do it.

[AstralKaos]

I'm just going to get the RP and tournament match minions for collection sake and be done with it, I did the 24 challenges for Twintania only... it's literally the only incentive I had to even bother with LoV, out of all them challenges only the last one was remotely good, that's 1/24, and it really just ended up being a burn-the-boss fight again.

Due to how empty and uninterested people are in this, I'll likely have to wintrade for them... Not that I was likely to enjoy doing it, it's not like the mode is actually interesting, and is on the bottom echelon of fun, but at least I'd have felt I am earning the minions.

Such a great use of resources there, dev's*, could have used them for something actually useful, maybe expand on something else... or perhaps, something people actually wanted?

*Yes, sarcasm.

[BlatantPyre]

Has anyone heard about any possible time-frame from SE on when they're going to fix this? I know there's people who want to get into LoVM, but with the way things are we just can't, and it's getting worse...last tourney in Jenova had the fewest participants I've seen yet, and today, being the first day of the current "tournament", no one's even tried...I'm just sitting here waiting like usual, and I'm not going to for much longer, I shouldn't have to.

SE isn't going to abandon LoVM, are they? If that's the case, they should just take it out...not that I want that, I enjoy it! It's not the game itself that's the problem, it was how it was implemented...it's just like someone said, Minion square is always abandoned because the first person to enter the square will leave because no one else is there, then the next person will do the same, and the next...and now people have just given up, since it's pointless even trying.

I've spoken to people who want to play this game, SE! People are not playing because it's almost impossible to do so, not because they don't want to!

[JeSuisR]

The reason I cant play Verminion Tourney is because I cannot get past the Tutorial, I'm a PS4 player... the first part asks me to press R1 if I remember correctly and I did pressed whatever command it asked me, NOTHING happened. I used R3/L3 to drag the cursor to GATE and press the command button nothing happened, I tried pressing all the buttons and still nothing, stayed in the tutorial trying to get pass the first step for more than 15min, then i just exited the tutorial and gave up

[Fluffya]

If you got stuck at the same place that i did, you need to press the joystick. The icone they show look alot like a shoulder trigger.

But yes, the PS controls for it suck, they could have simply go with a point and click like the mouse. We just need one button to switch between the minions bar and the battlefield. No need for hold x, press y etc...

The main turn off is you can't just go play it when you want, you need to redo the tutorial everytime because the controls are so not intuitives. I try it today and i wasnt even able to remember how to move my minions out of the starting point >.>