Quote Originally Posted by Februs View Post
It is utterly mind numbing that SE is still insisting on keeping them around, even though there is literally no reason to do so.
I think it adds nice flavour to Frontlines, but they really need to make it less rigid... I see no reason why we cannot have a system that simply prioritizes putting you in your Grand Company, rather than locking us to them... If 72 people are queuing, start a match, if it's a 24A/21M/27F split, take some of the Flames and put them in Maelstrom, perhaps with some additional rewards involved to encourage not throwing matches for your true Grand Company...

Would be quite nice if PvP had a skirmish style lobby to play around in during queues... So rather than queuing and sitting on your ass, you queue and get put into a non-serious waiting room-style match, and as that fills up we get given options; 24 or 72? Seize or Shatter? Temporarily sign up with a different Grand Company for additional rewards to speed up queues? Would make waiting somewhat more entertaining, and provide us with options to speed up queues, win-win. We can't even get them to show us how the queue is filling like with every PvE queue though, so that's probably just a futile dream...

In general though, Grand Companies in this game are just pathetic... It really feels like they just went down a checklist of things a MMO needs, without actually justifying this faction system... "We need a faction system! Why? IDK"... I'd kill for something like XIs Conquest system, shame the development team seems pretty incapable of emulating good content from XI. Yes I'm talking about Hunts and Diadem... They could honestly just remove Grand Companies from the game entirely and I doubt it would have any real negative impact... They've done nothing with them, there's no nationalism in this game like there was with XI... It's a damn shame, and I'd like them to fix that since I think it really enhances the game in general, but right now it's just a means of restriction and nothing more... Be that for Frontlines or glamours...