MVP Voting System

[coldreactive]

I noticed in an interview with Yoshida, that there would eventually be an MVP Voting system with a reward system tied to it (with class-specific rewards.) Is this true? If so, it's a bit unethical from my point of view. The system would make it so people who normally wouldn't play a class, because they dislike it, play it. Mainly due to the high need for tanks.

Plus, it's open to trolling. If you do well, then troll guilds won't bother to vote for you, and instead vote for the bad players. Honestly, I hope this system never comes.

[Coildry]

Trolls will always exist. I guess SE assumes not the majority of players are trolls.

[coldreactive]

Trolls will always exist. I guess SE assumes not the majority of players are trolls.

Hardcore players can also count as "Trolls" with this system, they likely won't vote for anyone but their friends and FC members =/ They also won't use the walk-in dungeon system either when it comes, since they'll want all the MVP Rewards, which, the vote system likely will only apply to duty finder. (Pre-Made parties still use the duty finder, so yeah.)

[Jinko]

I noticed in an interview with Yoshida, that there would eventually be an MVP Voting system with a reward system tied to it (with class-specific rewards.) Is this true? If so, it's a bit unethical from my point of view. The system would make it so people who normally wouldn't play a class, because they dislike it, play it. Mainly due to the high need for tanks.

Well nobody is forcing anyone to do anything, its an incentive to play other classes, I am generally a healer and the thought or playing a tank terrifies me, but this week I have been levelling my PLD and have got quite a few compliments on my tanking, so I think this is a good thing.

[coldreactive]

Well nobody is forcing anyone to do anything, its an incentive to play other classes, I am generally a healer and the thought or playing a tank terrifies me, but this week I have been levelling my PLD and have got quite a few compliments on my tanking, so I think this is a good thing.

I played a tank for over 3 years in many target-based MMORPGs, it doesn't really suit me as much as I would like. Sure, I can play it, but I really dislike it. Because I dislike most FC types (See this article) I likely won't find many dungeon parties because of it since I likely will join an FC (or am already in one) with not many tanks.

[ZohnoReecho]

What I know is that you get a bonus for playing certain roles or accepting to join a random duty picked by the system. Nothing about a voting system.

[coldreactive]

What I know is that you get a bonus for playing certain roles or accepting to join a random duty picked by the system. Nothing about a voting system.

See this page: http://gamerescape.com/2013/09/24/ga...oshida-part-2/

Yoshida: Crystal Tower is a 24 player dungeon, but it’s a Alliance Raid, so we’re not calling it a instanced dungeon.

Everything till here is what we have for battle. We’ll also have dailies which can be played solo, casually, which is called “Beastmen Daily Quest”. You’ll be communicating with the beastmen tribes and gain their trust, with that the story will expand, this is something that can be played every day as a solo daily content. We also have Treasure Hunt. We’ll have these two, and also will be introducing “Random Contents” and “MVP voting feature”. We have a system update in which it will reward those players who play as a role we are currently short on. Everything up till here is something in which we call, casual, dailies. Along with this, we have a large scale housing system and Wolves’ Den (Arena style PvP).

[Dire]

The MVP voting system is supposed to be for DF parties only. You will not be able to vote for someone you queued with, only for those DF randomly matched you with. While I am sure people will eventually find ways to abuse the system it's not going to be as easy as just voting for your buddies, seeing as how chances of you being randomly queued up with then are nill.

It's really not a bad idea, provided the voting is done AFTER the run is over (and strictly voluntary of course), so that tanks/healers can't coerce the rest to vote for them or else.

[Thagyr]

Hardcore players can also count as "Trolls" with this system, they likely won't vote for anyone but their friends and FC members =/ They also won't use the walk-in dungeon system either when it comes, since they'll want all the MVP Rewards, which, the vote system likely will only apply to duty finder. (Pre-Made parties still use the duty finder, so yeah.)

The keyword was 'random matching' in the interview, which I hope means that you can only vote for those in your party who compose the random element. I mean it'd be kinda silly if they allow players to vote for other players in their FC pre-made party, especially if there are going to be rewards involved. This coupled with that other system they mentioned in the interview, being a 'daily random dungeon' that you can do for bonus items/XP/Gil, I'd say they are trying to free up the FC reserved players and increase the number of them in the duty finder, especially tanks since there is a shortage, while simultaneously encouraging people to 'play nice' if they want a chance at an MvP vote.

And as to insinuating tanks getting all the benefits of this system, I've seen more DPS complimented than tanks or healers in most dungeons in the current endgame.

Either way, as long as the rewards are cosmetic in nature, I wouldn't be bothered by anything. If the system encourages more nice play than I'm all for it, cause the current system sure ain't encouraging anything else if you notice how many threads there are on the subject of player attitude.

[coldreactive]

And as to insinuating tanks getting all the benefits of this system, I've seen more DPS complimented than tanks or healers in most dungeons in the current endgame.

As a tank, I know I wouldn't speed run. So I'd probably get a lot less votes :P