TLDR - Don't do it (but you will anyway).
We're probably going to have some untested balancing changes, we just came off the back of a 4 month season (around 2 months+ longer than a season normally is); I know North America and Chaos only saw like 3 weeks of activity, but otherwise the rest of the DCs did remain active the majority of the season.
In no universe is having a back to back season especially one with changes a good idea. I'm almost on the verge of advocating the removal of exclusive rewards at this point because there's zero point competing for them when the cutoffs are so low on Western DCs you can be safe in a few days, with zero incentive to continue queueing. That's why some of you new feasters don't get queues btw. it's not just because the mode sucks, it's cos we have nothing to play for, and if we had to play to maintain our spots not only is that out of SE's ethos for running this game, we would simply play the bare minimum requirement anyway so nothing would change.
It's like a repeated broken record now where I honestly get the impression you do care about the ranked mode else you wouldn't keep designing rewards for it, and you wouldn't have made the efforts you did with running the fanfest tournaments, but you actually do need to take some of the feedback on board at this point because this is a literal joke. FFXIV PvP especially ranked became a meme because you let it be one. You make it difficult on a daily basis for us to defend you and the existence of those mode when it lacks any real direction. A good example was 5.0. You literally had it almost perfect, all you had to do was make it so an LB in culling 1 wasn't essentially an entire range's HP bar and sort out silence being a pacify (the latter of which, remained a problem all the way through S14). Oh, and to fix Dancers, something you didn't do until this season - and they're still the strongest solo queue phys range.
You have a small dedicated following of MMORPG PvP enthusiasts, many from extremely competitive backgrounds that care. But by all means, ignore them again at your peril, because when cutoffs are becoming as low as the bottom end of Gold in NA and Chaos for the rewards, you may as well scrap the top 100 system entirely and just let people earn them for playing PvP because the concept of exclusivity doesn't hold weight when you neglect the mode so much so people who aren't veterans and know when and where to climb have no chance of earning them.
It's not even player skill related at this point. Before I could just play the "git gud" card; but they can't "get good" because for starters they don't even get games. We actually started an army of alts on Light this season so unranked players could still get games and we could hopefully get some of them gold so they could have a better shot at active queues, unfortunately, with no real MMR system guess what, our alts ended up in Diamond within a couple of weeks too. People catagorically cannot play this mode, and its makes the top 100 reward concept unfair on them too.
Sort the game mode out before you put another season in, season 14 was a classic example of poor communication. You brought it out "early" and then had the audacity to blame us for asking for it and said "Well we had changes planned but you're all desperate so here you go." No. If you had communicated to us why the season was delayed, pretty sure most of us would have been happy to wait. We had zero idea why we were in a long preseason, hence why we asked for s14.
This is long already and I promised myself I wasn't going to take any part of this forum section seriously anymore and betrayed myself, GGs.
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We're probably going to have some untested balancing changes, we just came off the back of a 4 month season (around 2 months+ longer than a season normally is); I know North America and Chaos only saw like 3 weeks of activity, but otherwise the rest of the DCs did remain active the majority of the season.
In no universe is having a back to back season especially one with changes a good idea. I'm almost on the verge of advocating the removal of exclusive rewards at this point because there's zero point competing for them when the cutoffs are so low on Western DCs you can be safe in a few days, with zero incentive to continue queueing. That's why some of you new feasters don't get queues btw. it's not just because the mode sucks, it's cos we have nothing to play for, and if we had to play to maintain our spots not only is that out of SE's ethos for running this game, we would simply play the bare minimum requirement anyway so nothing would change.
It's like a repeated broken record now where I honestly get the impression you do care about the ranked mode else you wouldn't keep designing rewards for it, and you wouldn't have made the efforts you did with running the fanfest tournaments, but you actually do need to take some of the feedback on board at this point because this is a literal joke. FFXIV PvP especially ranked became a meme because you let it be one. You make it difficult on a daily basis for us to defend you and the existence of those mode when it lacks any real direction. A good example was 5.0. You literally had it almost perfect, all you had to do was make it so an LB in culling 1 wasn't essentially an entire range's HP bar and sort out silence being a pacify (the latter of which, remained a problem all the way through S14). Oh, and to fix Dancers, something you didn't do until this season - and they're still the strongest solo queue phys range.
You have a small dedicated following of MMORPG PvP enthusiasts, many from extremely competitive backgrounds that care. But by all means, ignore them again at your peril, because when cutoffs are becoming as low as the bottom end of Gold in NA and Chaos for the rewards, you may as well scrap the top 100 system entirely and just let people earn them for playing PvP because the concept of exclusivity doesn't hold weight when you neglect the mode so much so people who aren't veterans and know when and where to climb have no chance of earning them.
It's not even player skill related at this point. Before I could just play the "git gud" card; but they can't "get good" because for starters they don't even get games. We actually started an army of alts on Light this season so unranked players could still get games and we could hopefully get some of them gold so they could have a better shot at active queues, unfortunately, with no real MMR system guess what, our alts ended up in Diamond within a couple of weeks too. People catagorically cannot play this mode, and its makes the top 100 reward concept unfair on them too.
Sort the game mode out before you put another season in, season 14 was a classic example of poor communication. You brought it out "early" and then had the audacity to blame us for asking for it and said "Well we had changes planned but you're all desperate so here you go." No. If you had communicated to us why the season was delayed, pretty sure most of us would have been happy to wait. We had zero idea why we were in a long preseason, hence why we asked for s14.
This is long already and I promised myself I wasn't going to take any part of this forum section seriously anymore and betrayed myself, GGs.
Continue reading...