random Duty Finder groups - Square Enix attitude solution INC

[Khyranthir]

I like the idea as it's a rather benign way to reward people willing to work with strangers. Not enirely sure how people can abuse it. Either you get a upvote, or you don't. If you get one, awesome. If not, oh well. Personally, I like to see an incentive for folk to give it a little extra.

Not enirely sure I can see how it can be abused. Nobody can be held hostage by folks demanding an upvote AFTER the instance is over. There is NO downvoting which can totally be abused. Obviously you can't vote for friends you queue with since that can be abused just as easily.

No, this system rewards people who cooperate with others when they have no influence over them outside of their performance in the instance. And it harms no one except those who want the rewards yet refuse to play with strangers.

Playing with friends is its own reward.

[Chrysania]

Should be interesting to see how this goes, though unless they figure out some way to improve dps queues, people will have even less incentive to queue a dps. Hum.

Maybe more people will go tank or heal and it might balance out some?

One can hope.

[AlexionSkylark]

For example: I see shouts just for CM, Ifrit, Garuda and Titan for parties with relic weapons and full DL gear only. Others need not apply.

The big question here is... if someone already has full DL gear + relic, isn't that person past the hard mode primals in his progression?
I mean, do they have any reason to do them, except cuz they're cool and fun to do? I mean... they want OVERGEARED people, so they can rush through a content that's already behind them?

That's completely paradoxical to me. Unless they only have fun by doing underleveled content that's easy and trivial for them.

[Pyretta_Blaze]

The big question here is... if someone already has full DL gear + relic, isn't that person past the hard mode primals in his progression?
I mean, do they have any reason to do them, except cuz they're cool and fun to do? I mean... they want OVERGEARED people, so they can rush through a content that's already behind them?

That's completely paradoxical to me. Unless they only have fun by doing underleveled content that's easy and trivial for them.

They are speedrunning to gather the max amount of Tomestones per hour to gear out other jobs.

[Fuz]

I gotta say. I don't like this. I mean, I see why you would want to reward people for being voted on as being nice and all, but this completely excludes players who pre-make parties on their own servers now, from obtaining these specific items as quickly as a random joe schmo who wants to queue up by themselves and wait forever (if they are a dps job). Healers and Tanks will be able to take advantage of this system exclusively, if they act helpful and friendly far quicker than any DPS class that does the same exact thing. This is not a good thing. It is not as good as it sounds in theory.

Exactly.

This will never work and will only piss off many people.

[ashikenshin]

you can then level a tank or a healer and get your items faster. This will be more helpful for others dps since their queue time will be lower. You know, two birds one stone.

[Callence]

The big question here is... if someone already has full DL gear + relic, isn't that person past the hard mode primals in his progression?
I mean, do they have any reason to do them, except cuz they're cool and fun to do? I mean... they want OVERGEARED people, so they can rush through a content that's already behind them?

That's completely paradoxical to me. Unless they only have fun by doing underleveled content that's easy and trivial for them.

Not always - i have LS mates that are DL geared but they do Primals for their relic gear

[Jeffro]

HOPEFULLY people will retain the purpose of playing a game in the first place; to have fun. I get irked by elitists as much as the next guy, but always having something to look forward to is nice. I know we're just breaking the surface with the game now since we haven't even passed the first level cap into the REAL endgame era yet (just think, we're all donning the equivalent of the original AF in FFXI. How crappy is that gear now?) MVP stature could always reward nifty little things like +1 boosts here and there to pieces of armor of your choosing just to add some customization. As long as I don't see everyone running around in scorpion harnesses and rogues culottes I'll be happy.

[SenKoyo]

I really wish I could downvote those people who sit at the beginning of CM or sit during a cutscene. Just had a pair from Lich that bombed our run.

I like the idea of the MVP system, as long as it can't easily be cheated.

[Wobi]

I really wish I could downvote those people who sit at the beginning of CM or sit during a cutscene. Just had a pair from Lich that bombed our run.

I like the idea of the MVP system, as long as it can't easily be cheated.

You and your ilk are the very reason there will be no downvotes, first-timer wants to watch the CS you you want to downvote them? Ridiculous... If they every become crazy enough to allow vote-to-kick or downvotes I sincerely hope that people that are new to the instance will be unkickable.