Garo event a COMPLETE success!

[RhaegarFFXIFenrir]

I'm both aggravated by the loss of feast chat and support it. I know, strange. I'm aggravated because, of course, I can't communicate with my team when we need to communicate. Otherwise, it's great that I don't have to see all the abuse and rage that I'm sure was in the chat (and why SE just disabled it completely as a result). And so, we need a few more premade messages to get our point across. For example, a message like "focus targets" to tell your dps to attack one person (instead of everyone picking a different target and, as a result, killing no one). We also need messages asking for help from teammates. I'm sure there are others I'm not thinking of at the moment, but adding in additional messages is the way to go to let us at least somewhat formulate strategy while keeping the jerks at bay.

[Hamayumi]

We also need messages asking for help from teammates. I'm sure there are others I'm not thinking of at the moment, but adding in additional messages is the way to go to let us at least somewhat formulate strategy while keeping the jerks at bay.

Agree with the additional messages. I can think of these right off the bat:

"We need 1 more medal to win."

"We need to let the timer run out, don't die, play defense."

"Marked target with huge amount of stacks/medals."

Here's to hoping that SE adds a few more helpful ones that compliment strategy.

[Pyrali]

Nothing in XIV has ever been said that's worse than your average Overwatch Comp match tbh. Y'all got bones of glass and paper skin if ti really bothers you that much.

It's really hard to take people who rage seriously, and if you do, the problem is with you tbh. I learned to find it funny when someone was reacting disproportionately to a minor screwup.

But completely muzzling everyone is riduculous.

No room for teaching, no room for learning, and no room for strat in a team based competitive game.

[Pence]

I'm loving the event. If this event is lasting 6 months, i think it'd be sufficient time to prepare another PVP 6 month event and a continual cycle. I don't think it's too much to ask.

The chat restriction is stupid AF. They could have atleast gave as a disabled by default chat, with an opt-in option with a message reading 'Chat is unfiltered and may be toxic AF. By joining you accept these terms etc etc'....

But....SE. So.

[Zojha]

I'm loving the event. If this event is lasting 6 months, i think it'd be sufficient time to prepare another PVP 6 month event and a continual cycle.

That was kinda the idea behind Feast Seasons, except on a shorter cycle (0.05 patch to 0.05 patch). It failed because it catered to the more hardcore PvPers, rather than the average PvE joe.

[Culfinrandir]

And then there're people still laughing that glamour is the true endgame - the event is the proof that it really is haha!
But the freelancer status surely helped at least for me being in Maelstrom, the queues were unbearable

Likewise, I've been able to PVP every day, something I couldn't do since 3.1 on Primal Maelstrom. To show just how imbalanced the GCs must be in Frontlines - I haven't been in a Maelstrom team since Freelance was introduced & Mael has always had a full Alliance whereas the other teams can be short. Seems the old rumours of Badders & Flamers transferring to Maelstrong was true. ;P

[loreleidiangelo]

Likewise, I've been able to PVP every day, something I couldn't do since 3.1 on Primal Maelstrom. To show just how imbalanced the GCs must be in Frontlines - I haven't been in a Maelstrom team since Freelance was introduced & Mael has always had a full Alliance whereas the other teams can be short. Seems the old rumours of Badders & Flamers transferring to Maelstrong was true. ;P

I was in more Failstrom teams than Adders yesterday. Mostly I got Flames though. Either way, my entire alliance was filled with names I didn't know, and nobody directed so we mostly lost horribly. Trying to learn a bit more about the nuances of the game mode before I make some macros for callouts.

[Chevronone]

I feel like there needs to be some sort of player monitored "policing" in Feast, since the Dev/GM team clearly do not want to deal with the insurmountable harassment tickets they must be receiving.

Something akin to the Commendation system we have, but rather it's an Unsportsmanlike Conduct mark you can hand out at the end of the match. This would be on maybe a 2 hour CD, so use it sparingly. If a player receives X amount of marks in a time period, their ability to chat in Feast is TEMPORARILY restricted.

Could this be abused? Sure, no more than the vote dismissed system we already have.

[Culfinrandir]

I was in more Failstrom teams than Adders yesterday. Mostly I got Flames though. Either way, my entire alliance was filled with names I didn't know, and nobody directed so we mostly lost horribly. Trying to learn a bit more about the nuances of the game mode before I make some macros for callouts.

Don't worry, I've been helping your Adders get wins. XD