You do not have the PVP population to support such an ambitious ranking system

[Exira]

Queues are already increasing in time and the hype is fading.

You have two options:
Remove data centers and have 3 pvp regions (NA, EU, JP) for JUST pvp and let your pvp thrive somewhat.

Or

Dumb down the ranking system to a viable complexity to match your somewhat seperated and sporadic pvp community.

Personally I prefer the first and know the game launched without data centers so I assume its somewhat possible. It would also fix queue times across all the pvp game types if all of the regions shared their own queues instead of 3-4. The system you currently have in place is reminiscent of League of Legends THE MOST POPULAR GAME. You need to swallow your pride and accept that you don't have the players to fill this as it stands.

Also today I learned that team's in solo queue are matched based on average point totals. AKA higher ranks are balanced with lower ranks on the same team. That gave me a good chuckle ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Isala]

Also today I learned that team's in solo queue are matched based on average point totals. AKA higher ranks are balanced with lower ranks on the same team. That gave me a good chuckle ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Is that how that works? Good lord. So it's not just my imagination that I'm getting players that have no idea how to PvP. They actually are new to PvP.

[DukeGr]

Since PvP was first introduced i had a feeling that it doesn't make any sense. After trying the feast for a few days that feeling has become even stronger. This game just has no PvP bases to build upon, it all feels like an afterthought. The Feast is already dead before it even began. The only way PvP can be salvaged in this game is if they make radical changes to streamline PvP into the actual game and not just have a stupid circle Arena or random Zerg map.

The OP does make a point tho, if you want to keep this sub-par system as it is at least make some changes to make it viable, you can't have queue times upto 15-20 minutes for content that just launched, or a 2 hour queue to enter older PvP content. Who on their right mind would sit through that queue beats me.

1)Make a global PvP Duty Finder
2)Remove GC restrictions and randomly distribute people based on needs
3)Stop removing all the fun and PvP customization, gear/materia
4)Incorporate more PvE rewards into PvP roulettes, encourage people that wouldn't PvP to do so (tomestones,exp). you don't have enough of a PvP crowd to make it viable in the long run.
5)You can easily balance classes for PvP with the PvP skill tree. Work it out, add new passives that convert skill functionality for PvP usage. You can make all the classes fun.

[Spawnie]

awesome since feast is dieing means hopefully frontlines queues will improve once again :3

[Shurrikhan]

Alternatively though, you already have people occasionally running wildly or in circles at what appear to be sprint speeds even while heavied because the server's trying to show where they will be by the time you can interact with them or animations going off with no effect, damage, or GCD because the enemy's already moved out of melee range, despite appearing to be in overlap with your hitbox. I'm not sure I want to face that worsened when pairing European and Japanese players against each other. If there's some sort of ping- or proximity- matching possible, I'd love to see the data centers together--that would itself be a far better guarantee of what little merit data center splits have to offer--but without this, I can't see that as having much benefit, personally.

[Dumbledoremd]

Maybe its the attitude from players ingame towards others killing pvp

[Exira]

Alternatively though, you already have people occasionally running wildly or in circles at what appear to be sprint speeds even while heavied because the server's trying to show where they will be by the time you can interact with them or animations going off with no effect, damage, or GCD because the enemy's already moved out of melee range, despite appearing to be in overlap with your hitbox. I'm not sure I want to face that worsened when pairing European and Japanese players against each other. If there's some sort of ping- or proximity- matching possible, I'd love to see the data centers together--that would itself be a far better guarantee of what little merit data center splits have to offer--but without this, I can't see that as having much benefit, personally.

I just want one single pool each for NA, EU and JP not all together. The NA playerbase is shattered and broken across 3 strong data centers that actually pvp...it doesn't make sense

[Spawnie]

Maybe its the attitude from players ingame towards others killing pvp

attitude from alot of elitists is horrible in feast has been since day 1 we won a match by 200 ish.... yet the tank was abusing the healer non stop since the 1st 30 secs of the match :P i could mention more but lazy ._.

[Dumbledoremd]

Yep and who Would want to que if thats what you get i know i dont

[Spawnie]

Yep and who Would want to que if thats what you get i know i dont

only a small minority are like that tho.. its worse in raids/dungeons in my opinion