The Lightfeather Proving Grounds

[Malzian]

You may be right on Triple Triad. At least with NPCs. I'm not sure if it was that way originally though. Also the idea of a Triple Triad tournament was really cool, but then people started abusing it and nothing was done and all incentive to continue playing was lost. Also, the idea behind Verminion was great, but the execution was really lacking. It's almost impossible to play on a controller. I never played FFXI, but Pankration sounds REALLY cool. Like the next-best-thing-to-being-a-blue-mage cool.

Give people a system with rewards and someone will find a way to abuse it, that's an unfortunate reality of these kinds of games. I agree that the execution of Verminion was lacking, they were working outside of their skillset when creating it and I feel like something similar to Pankration, while done with the best of intentions, is still in the same vein and likely to turn out just as poorly. I think something that flows with the mechanics of the game would be much easier for them to design though the new Diadem makes that look less likely as well. But I still feel that sticking with core XIV mechanics is probably more likely to work out than developing a whole new type of game within the game. But that's just my opinion on the matter.