Competitive Integrity in Crystalline Conflict: PvP Promotion vs. Ranked Reality

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Funny how this topic emerges after some kind of l'il row on the <one name you've cited>'s Twitch channel last night... (very cringe to observe too).



There's no getting to the bottom of it, though. The barrel is too deep (and it's one that's gathering dust in the corner, for all it matters to the grand scheme of the game's perseverance). The "minority" is not really all that small, it's only that when you think of outright hacking. There's only a very small number of those indeed. Though some confirmed ones are still playing, nyes.

But for match fixing type activities, oh my no that's a different kettle of fish, they're a bit more plentiful -- I mean once upon a time ranked Feast party PvP got closed, and then again di'n it? Sometimes it looks like one circle of fixers pointing fingers at another (friend group vs friend group I guess?) It's very silly stuff... but either way the apprehension is kind of warranted from those outside of the loop. You're either in or you're out it feels like. It's way too exclusive club-like past a certain point (or a playground depending on how you look at it). I don't blame one and doners for being as they are when it comes to ranked PvP here. If you trigger a petty grudge from that lot hoo boy.

It'd sure be nice if things could be cleaner but it's just not happening. So I play on alts across the different territories more and more, or play FL, or just not at all. It's nice getting some peace, 'cuz I don't really care about the rewards. That's the alternative to waiting for better moderation. It's annoying but it is how it is. Makes me wonder why there's even tournaments being held.

There isn't really anything funny about it. There is indeed a very specific player with multiple accounts that seems to show up every ranked season, and will be there playing from the start to the end of the activity window every day, either hacking and cheating with one account, or just throwing games and griefing with another. That player has already had at least one account banned, and bought the game and remade one immediately with the same name. It's very interesting to see that one can circumvent perma bans by just throwing more money at the company and make new accounts with the exact same characters, doing the exact same things without a care in the world.

As just to prove me right, just after I made that post yesterday, the whole evening has been a literal shit show of one sided games due to that one specific player.

I don't know why you say there is no getting to the bottom of it. There is a couple of identified cheaters/griefers at best, it shouldn't be too hard to deal with them, yet SE's lethargy in that matter is really frustrating.

Like the first reply to that thread, I do legit not understand you at all. You're free to be convinced that nothing will be done, etc, but why are you both trying to shoot down the threads that actually try to address the problem? Not gonna lie I'd rather have even vitriolic replies aimed at the actual culprits or the lack of care from SE than this kind of half assed attacks at the OP itself. Respectfully, you're not helping at all, both of you. You're just validating the statu quo.

You could always start an off site space, like a Facebook fan page or a Discord server.

That is literally what people have been doing on other social media, tagging SE in the process. Reports are legion and already there, just waiting for the company to actually act upon it.