Quote Originally Posted by Deceptus View Post
What sucks is even if they put the 30m penalty on it, the people who abused the system early are rewarded for it and get a rarer "prestigious" title
Yeah I agree with this. It's too late to act now. Forcing instances was never the issue anyways. It sucks that you have to wait around because there's enough people to start games immediately but a bunch of people are going to try to force the solo instance, but that's just how it is.

With how rampant the cheating is people need a reprieve.

Watching the entire of the event occur has been soul draining. SE could've done a lot to really prevent this from ever being an issue, but the community itself also disappoints. The FFXIV community is always praised for being amazing but there were people all over posting pics of them cheating. Someone posted an entire gif of them winning with their name visible with the cheats showing in one of my discords and the only responses were people admitting they do it too. In what world should someone who plays fairly feel like they uncomfortable about calling out someone who is obviously cheating in plain sight?

I was really hoping that at the least we'd get a statement from Yoshi P on this. It might be a slap on the wrist, but it'd be something. To me the silence is basically encouraging this to go on and get worse.