Feast Seasons, They Need To Be Fixed! Ways How

[Magic-Mal]

Reading the thread on the General Discussion forum got a spark going in my mind thinking of all the issues in Feast Seasons. Glaring issues too. I recently made a thread asking about Feast because I was interested but a few days ago I lost all interest in season 3 but that's not the point of the thread.

Alt Characters Getting Rewards For Season 4:
I never even thought of or knew about this issue until reading on the General Discussion forums. When I think of it now, this IS an issue and it needs to be addressed. Whats the point of having separate seasons if the same people on alts are going to fill the leaderboards? They shouldn't be there. They are taking spots from people who aren't alts and want to get top 100. This needs to be nipped in the bud.

Solution:
Make all season rewards MogStation items that are received via item codes. Create 100 codes that will be given to the top 100 people by the Feast Quartermaster. Make the items account-bound(Or make the reward for 1 character but the effect account-bound). These people will will redeem their codes and done.

(Examples)
-Top 10 Feast Reward Pack
-Top 100 Feast Reward Pack

People who try to trade codes wont be able to trade because SE should keep track of who should own the items. So Johnny Rogers will be banned because he has rewards for top 100 yet none of his characters are there on the leaderboard. The seller will also be banned.




PvP Retirement:
This is a really bad issue. I feel certain that many players on the top 100 get their spot then retire from PvP. Making it very difficult for players to even get into matches, securing their spot on this list. If there are 100 people missing from PvP who are Platinum and Diamond, how would one go about fighting Platinums and Diamonds? I feel all of that is intentional by the players too by the way.

1. Get your spot.
2. Stop playing.
3. Newcomers get 1 hour queues.
4. Newcomers get discouraged.
5. New comers quit.
6. No one to take your spot.
7. Success!

It makes sense really. And it worked for me. Knowing 3.55 is right around the corner, I decided to quit season 3 because I was wasting my time. Queues take waaay to long to have such limited time. Then throw in bad players and trolls. You end up losing a match you waited a half an hour or more for and then lose your points. It seriously feels impossible. And I've been PvPing a bit now. As soon as I hit Silver rank, queues tanked.

Solution:
Add a degrading system. Simple. People who get up there on the top 100 should have to actually compete and stay fighting to hold their place instead of sitting around. That is fair. People who actually want to PvP would actually have a chance. Not PvPing? Your number degrades. So the person with 3,500 points the first week can't just quit.




Cheating:
Do I need to explain? People out there turning into manticores killing people getting wins. People running at impossible speeds. People going invincible for certain amounts of time(My entire BRD burst in my case. No shields either. It's like I missed them). And people wintrading. I look on the leaderboards and there are people with borderline 100% winrates with a low amount of matches compared to others. How is this allowed? For 3 seasons straight? I highly doubt there are teams legit getting 99% win rates for real..

Solution:
Take action SE? Get rid of these people. Look at the match records. If these people are winning against the same 4 people 100 times, obviously something is fishy. Take these people down, and listen to the community when they tell you players are running faster than mounts.




Feast Auto-Chat:
..... just change it please lol.

[TiaHariberux3]

1. I dont think alts are an issue and the rewards should be only 1char only imo.
2. yea we need rating decay even though on silver you should get matches
3. Ive never saw someone using pomander bug in 4vs4 (I think its not even possible anymore idk) and even if it got used they got banned if you reported them (no joke there with such stuff u get 100% banned). People with almost 100% winrate are either light party (normal if u are good) or alts/good ppl who just started playing this season. Alot of ppl with alts gets high winrates its not suspicious at all. Also I think you werent aware of smth (bard example) unless u proof that.

You obviously havent played enough. xd

[Magic-Mal]

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1. Why not? Why should one person be able to win more than once? Taking spots from actual different people to win?



I've been PvPing for over 2 years. 1 year for Feast because its only a year old. What is smth? Does that mean "something"? Dunno but I kill alot of people as BRD and I've seen people not take damage sometimes at point-blank range. Like No damage numbers stuff. These people have no shields and received no heals during the second. How is that possible? Personally the only *confirmed* cheat I've seen myself was the running speed cheat. People moving super fast.

[TiaHariberux3]

1. Why not? Why should one person be able to win more than once? Taking spots from actual different people to win?



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Because they put same effort in their alts as you on ur main its all fine imo if you cant compete with their alts then you simply dont deserve to be ranked. Why would you give someone a advantage just because they play a main and not a alt? Also some people have alts but have them on a different account so it wouldnt solve the problem (which isnt one imo) at all.


Again maybe you werent aware of something so much stuff happens all the time its hard to believe something like this unless you record matches and rewatch them to check if thats really the case.

Also the delay sometimes make it look like that ppl are fast especially lalas havent seen any speedhacker in a long time.

[Zojha]

I'd just finally abolish the farce that is ranked entirely. The community can't handle it (as evidenced by toxicity), the devs can't handle (as evidenced by their reaction to the toxicity, wintrading and other issues), it fails at making PvP considerably more popular, it fails to create quality matches due to too few players for a proper MMR system and it most certainly fails as entry point for FFXIV to the E-Sports scene.

Admittedly, it's very successful as a joke. A running gag even, with the chat restriction making the term somewhat ambiguous. But that's about all it's good for.

[Magic-Mal]

2. yea we need rating decay even though on silver you should get matches

T.T

[TiaHariberux3]

T.T

Happens when feast was active I had sometimes 60min wait time at prime time.

[Stormfur]

Yeah, 4v4 solo ranked is a goobue dungstorm. It's like waiting to be kicked in the teeth while simultaneously being dragged through the mud and not being able to scream.

8v8 however, is a BLAST. You don't know what you're going to get. And with GARO it seems enthusiasm is at an all time high. It's just people having fun slaughtering each other. Rankings like just bring out bad blood in everyone.