Feast Rank (Ranked Match) Solo Queue Reoccurring Griefing Problem

[Ramesses]

This is a first for me but I don’t normally come to the official forums to make a post. In fact this is the first time I've a been here since 1.0 official forums. I apologize in advance that my English is not exactly good.

There has been an issue that is steadily growing each season. At this point where the game mode is no longer enjoyable. I just want someone from Square Enix to see what is going on because it feels like people who do the report on this don’t really see an impact despite it going on for several seasons. The people who grief in feast only seem to get more bold with their actions. There are some cases where people sit and do nothing. Other times the pretend like their playing but don’t commit to anything

It isn’t just people throwing matches. People are participating in the act of boosting as well. It has picked up rapidly up this season. From what it looks like any future seasons in feast is doom to griefing and people exploiting the system. I always try to report anything that is going on. I also encourage any players in the community to report if they witness anything. It is just really tough for me or anyone else to feel like it will do anything when we see the same person doing the same thing to grief.

As far as my feedback on what to do to combat issue is maybe remove the rank carry over system. (i.e. if you get diamond you start as gold next season) It will make it harder for people to boost and at the same time making the queues more active at unranked-silver at the start of a season. The people who obtained the rank of diamond don’t really need this system in place. Some others always suggest maybe rank decay or remove the highest rating. If a person already achieves the highest rating on the board they are almost free to grief as much as they want while still being on the leaderboard. It almost doesn’t seem fair to anyone else. By removing this it might help improve the quality of life of the game mode At this point, I will most likely not be playing in the future, but I want to at least do my part and post this here.

I completely have great empathy for this post Izumi... and thank you for posting this.

+1 to you as well... plus I thought your English was absolutely superb.

This issue right here is the core reason I have blatantly refused to invest my time into PvP anymore. Several times in the past, I have discussed with GMs at length about this extremely toxic issue, the boosting and how it is directly affecting PvP from burgeoning into Yoshi's vision for PvP content. I even suggested that the Dev team initiate a small task force to just observe the madness from the sidelines and see for themselves how this issue is ridiculously out of hand. And still, it would seem they are not taking it seriously.

Not too long ago right here on the forums (HERE), I was even trying to explain the issue to another poster who was a highly ranked PvP player but decided to just ignore when I swiftly realized he couldn't understand my side of the argument.

I'm the type that very swiftly grows miffed and impatient with daft behaviour, so in order to maintain peace and civility I sometimes just ignore and carry on.

The current PvP system has gone belly up and the ranking system is a knackered attempt at attracting new players into its fold... it needs to be fixed ASAP. Period.

[BloodRubyXII]

Not too long ago right here on the forums (HERE), I was even trying to explain the issue to another poster who was a highly ranked PvP player but decided to just ignore when I swiftly realized he couldn't understand my side of the argument.

He qualified for FRC then subsequently got permed for trying to sell his accounts, a fairly ironic end to your tale.

Anyway anyone wanna play Siege? x