Feast Party Win Trading / Primal

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its important to note that almost no one inflating their points setting up in-house games is actually win trading, because by and large they'd come out behind in points due to how they're granted and lost.

win trading has almost no effect on the ranked boards because win trading exists more or less so pve'ers could get their pvp rewards with a minimum of difficulty, especially given how little the vast majority of non-pvpers actually seem to care about their performance in pvp. this is an issue too, but not really one that has anything to do with people effectively fixing ranked matches.

regardless of whether or not win trading by definition is going on, this (the subject of the op) is something that needs to be addressed. regardless of intentions, these players have the ability to play their pre-made 4v4s to their hearts content - we have custom lobbies now. any plausible deniability they might have had before custom lobbies is gone. the only real fix is one thats been tossed around a lot, since i saw the feast introduced: only have ranked feast open at several windows during the day. ultimately, though, this is just an issue of population size - in a game the size of ffxiv, any remotely healthy pvp player base would temper the ability to set up things like this. instead, because some skilless carebear can be certain there's generally no one queueing at most points in the day, it's trivial to arrange queueing into each other.