FFXIV Has the Population to Support an ELO system for Duty Finder / Party Finder

[Thi]

This games biggest issue that there are huge differences in the playstyle of players and they are forced to group with each other unless you go in a pre-made.

What I propose is to bring in an ELO system to this game that ranks your individual performance and groups you with similar players.

• If you are an optimizer and play your job at peak performance? You get grouped with other people of the same mindset.
  
• If you are competent and can keep your GCD rolling? (and thus above average sadly) You get grouped with similar players who also do the same.
  
• If you don't care about combat and just want to play the game? You get to play with all the other people with the same mindset.

To be fair in this system everyone would start at the middle and would go up or down based on individual performance in duties per role.

After some time, the player base is sorted out and Elitists and Toxic Casuals will never have to interact with each other again.

As an extra bonus you could set your Party Finder to only allow Rank x-x to preemptively filter and make less trap parties in PF.

[DBriggs304]

Nah. Definitely not needed here.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

That sounds terrible.

This isn't a pvp competitive game. Keep your weird rankings out of it.

[Beytran70]

It might have the population, but does FFXIV have the back-end for it? Its hard enough getting them to add more inventory slots and things, and Exploration Mode for duties was apparently enough of a hassle they could only do it for some the first time around. In my experience the DF is one of those systems that I think just works the way it is intended and messing around with it might be more trouble than its worth to the devs which is why so far they've done more tinkering with the actual instances themselves.

[LittleImp]

Yoshida has pretty much explicitly stated that mixing users of different skill levels is an intentional design choice, as it helps to smooth out the 'average' run in DF content. They'd have to pretty much completely reverse their thinking to even consider a system like this. I tend to agree with SE's outlook on the matter, as the idea of gatekeeping or creating elite queues for extremely low-risk content is honestly extremely silly. Just make some friends and play with a premade.

[Derio]

This is a community about lifting eachother up, not segregating the community.

[NamidaTekika]

If you're just rolling roulettes, theres no need for something like this. Newer people very often learn from the experienced types...and honestly communication solves more of the issues than gear would.

If someone is actually being toxic thats what kick function is for.

[VerdeLuck]

I have no idea what a toxic casual, is but randoms shouldn't be dragging down a dungeon or trial run more than making it take a little longer or adding a wipe or two. If it's that much of a problem, grab someone from your FC to play with when you do story or roulettes.

[icrot]

It works for fast-paced competitive games with 10-15 minutes matches that don't offer anything else (Overwatch, LoL, and such). But this game doesn't need that. Besides, the queue times would be insanely long if they implemented it.

[LittleImp]

I have no idea what a toxic casual, is but randoms shouldn't be dragging down a dungeon or trial run more than making it take a little longer or adding a wipe or two. If it's that much of a problem, grab someone from your FC to play with when you do story or roulettes.

'Toxic Casuals' are casual players that choose to significantly value their personal experience over contributing to their team. This usually manifests in refusal to learn their role/job at endgame, AFKing in content, griefing, using 'alternative playstyles' and just generally having a really bad attitude when they're questioned or don't get their way. They exist, but they're not as common as people on the forums tend to believe.