The Frontlines Premade issue has not been fixed.

[Ridrina]

There are a lot of statistically improbable things going on right now in PVP but I guess it's just one voice drowned out by the ocean. I'm just extremely disappointed that people are still finding ways around the fix and dominating PVP regardless.

Greetings everyone,

Thank you for your feedback.

The adjustments made in Patch 5.18 were put in place to improve randomization of party members in Frontline campaigns. Players are no longer assigned according to their Grand Company membership and are instead treated as freelancers. However, under certain conditions, when registering as a party there is currently a slightly higher chance of being grouped with other players who also registered as a party.

This issue is difficult to fully resolve with only the immediate measures taken in Patch 5.18 and requires fundamental changes to the matching system.

Because the matching system is comprised of highly complex processes, making changes to the core of the system requires fine tuning and a multitude of validation checks. As such, fundamental changes to the processes are currently scheduled for Patch 5.2.

A shuffling system is currently being developed for Patch 5.2, which will evenly distribute players into alliances regardless of whether they have registered solo or as a party.

We ask for your patience as we continue to work to address this issue for Patch 5.2.

[Shinklet]

Greetings everyone,

Thank you for your feedback.

The adjustments made in Patch 5.18 were put in place to improve randomization of party members in Frontline campaigns. Players are no longer assigned according to their Grand Company membership and are instead treated as freelancers. However, under certain conditions, when registering as a party there is currently a slightly higher chance of being grouped with other players who also registered as a party.

This issue is difficult to fully resolve with only the immediate measures taken in Patch 5.18 and requires fundamental changes to the matching system.

Because the matching system is comprised of highly complex processes, making changes to the core of the system requires fine tuning and a multitude of validation checks. As such, fundamental changes to the processes are currently scheduled for Patch 5.2.

A shuffling system is currently being developed for Patch 5.2, which will evenly distribute players into alliances regardless of whether they have registered solo or as a party.

We ask for your patience as we continue to work to address this issue for Patch 5.2.

Now two more years before we get told what they're doing in the pvp section

[Risvertasashi]

Now two more years before we get told what they're doing in the pvp section

Not really sure where you're getting 2 years from, they post in the pvp section a lot more often than that.

[FirstnameLastname]

Not really sure where you're getting 2 years from, they post in the pvp section a lot more often than that.

Ah yes, the disproportionaly high engagement here surely stems from the massive amount of resources that are reserved for the pvp development team, no?

[Newmanxeno]

Greetings everyone,

Thank you for your feedback.

The adjustments made in Patch 5.18 were put in place to improve randomization of party members in Frontline campaigns. Players are no longer assigned according to their Grand Company membership and are instead treated as freelancers. However, under certain conditions, when registering as a party there is currently a slightly higher chance of being grouped with other players who also registered as a party.

This issue is difficult to fully resolve with only the immediate measures taken in Patch 5.18 and requires fundamental changes to the matching system.

Because the matching system is comprised of highly complex processes, making changes to the core of the system requires fine tuning and a multitude of validation checks. As such, fundamental changes to the processes are currently scheduled for Patch 5.2.

A shuffling system is currently being developed for Patch 5.2, which will evenly distribute players into alliances regardless of whether they have registered solo or as a party.

We ask for your patience as we continue to work to address this issue for Patch 5.2.

Give us eight man parties back when you fix it fix it.

[Nalukai]

A shuffling system is currently being developed for Patch 5.2, which will evenly distribute players into alliances regardless of whether they have registered solo or as a party.

Please no.

[Moonlite]

Please no.

Honest question. No, because you are breaking the rules using a known bug/exploit?

[Divinemights]

Honest question. No, because you are breaking the rules using a known bug/exploit?

I duo with a friend, so no.
How about I don't want to split up with my friend?
I am not hot with Elvaan either, so no worry

[Moonlite]

I duo with a friend, so no.
How about I don't want to split up with my friend?
I am not hot with Elvaan either, so no worry

They responded to the fact that the current system has a tendency not to randomize premade groups. It tries to put them all on Maelstrom. You still get a max of 4 queing. But if you were so inclined with the current system and some coordination you could get more then 4 all onto Maelstrom.



If your problem is that less then 4 people can que together at once, which is legitimate. All you can do is spam a thread and live letter like the Japanese do. If they would build a better matchmaking system they would have no excuse not to let 8 mans back.

[Nalukai]

I duo with a friend, so no.
How about I don't want to split up with my friend?
I am not hot with Elvaan either, so no worry

This is exactly the reason I said 'please no', also. Add to that the fact that I pvp on a healer and half the heal spells don't work cross-alliance, that'd be a big negative for me. I feel like shuffling ALL size parties queueing in is too broad a change. They could have altered it so parties larger than a light party, or more than 3 get shuffled, but any size party getting shuffled is kind of bleh.