Quote Originally Posted by Igneous View Post
People trying to validate 8v8 as practice is unbelievable to me, that is no practice. You are learning nothing about PvP 8v8 and 4v4 are like night and day. Its liter 16 people running around like chickens with their heads cut off. The only way to learn 4v4 , is to play 4v4 , tough luck
This is true for the most part. You can still use 8 v 8 to familiarize yourself with your job PVP abilities and the crates, limit break and heavy medal mechanics of feast but for the most part 8 v 8 is a pretty useless mode in terms of preparing you for 4 v 4. There should have been an unranked 4 v 4 mode but I guess SE is afraid of further dividing the PVP playerbase. Regardless there's too many players to hide behind to be able to effectively gauge how you would fare in the transition from 8 v 8 to 4 v 4 and the two modes play too differently with 4 v 4 putting more emphasis on individual performance.