People gotta be people. There will ALWAYS be drama, it is just that usually content tends to overshadow the drama (i.e. 6.0 release, savages, etc.), but in a content lull (which happens usually at the X.3 or X.5 patches) these things get noticed more often as content creators need to pump numbers up. PvP cheating has been a thing forever even with the revamp, the best Square can do is just take them off the leaderboard if there is a proven record of win trading (even then it takes weeks for them to investigate).
I'm gonna be honest... I care less about wintraders and more about people using auto plugins to CC me the exact moment I hit the limit break. The people who actively ruin games by using tools to give them advantage.
Pvp "drama" always been around. Back when we had Feasts, there always people trying to win trade this is not new. Honestly, it's dumb for CC. There is no amazing reward for topping cc rank. These people wasting money for some shitty bragging rights. At least during Feast it was for unique mounts. You can do frontlines roullete for most of your rewards.
Agreed, that is why pvp in ffxiv never got to grown into its own thing. It was bad back then, and it is still bad right now sadly...I will even say it is worst now since you can't even play cc with your friends.
@Lofi Piggy i blame the obsuered amount of crowd control classes have and spam. Even after you use pruify you almost get stunlocked shortly after or slowed down no way to really escape after that.
Long time PvP player and you are absolutely correct. The small amount of dedicated PvPers we had around back in the day still had drama. I have a friend who earned all the old Feast gear legit and people still say he cheated his way up there. I got Crystal first season and wanted to try hitting top 100 the second season but I was waiting 40mins for ONE RANKED queue. That was months ago, I can't imagine it now. PvP is fucking dead. Just run your daily frontlines and be done with it.
@Prism Heavy, honestly, i tried doing cc ranked, but it also has the most broken piece of shit. A unranked player, vs. Bronze silver and gold players. Even once i get into bronze, im still vs. teams that way above my pvp abilities, that like detering me from even try to do ranked. Better off running casual and pray i get my wins to get the garo mounts for cc.
What hurting the most is a lack of balancing, terrible netcode (the server tick is a joke for pvp), no group queue and insufferable cheaters/wintraders. Wintraders could easily be detected but that would be too much to ask for, wouldn't it?
Ranked CC is only enjoyable if you got to team with ppl that actually know to play, even you ended up lose because that way you can actually learn from your mistake and from the better opponents If you play with ppl that know no shit, and don't follow your lead in the quick chat, is a recipe for inatant headache (at least for me) Tl;dr just play custom match/casual, the playerbase isnt equipped enough to do rank & take criticism on their bad play
I had actual fun when healing for The Feast because a single second doing nothing would mean people died, even with shitty balance it was still an enjoyable experience. Until I got into higher ranks and the ping barrier was obvious. I really can't believe casting a spell has so much client side handling, why the fuck can I keep casting shit if I'm literally offline? The animations are not even tied to the actual effects, you can cast a spell and the damage will come 90 seconds after the animation ended. Then they decided to put bomberman into the new mode and an actual mathematically unbalanced mode. And everyone loved it. We lost.
ikr. literally at the point where it's for the love of hydelean, give 14 some sort of endgame that takes more than a week or 2 to do. some repeatable pve content...SOMETHING at this point. like 14 is much more in the public spotlight over the past couple yrs so of course there is waaay more publicity for the game. and actually put some kind of incentive to do it b/c lets face it, materia ain't incentive to do it..lookin at u criterion dungeons. *glare*
@@4NT1N008 I think the problem is, despite them saying months prior, Island Sanctuary is the exploratory zone. It seems no one realized how much of a big miss this would be and added to the incentive to do something overtime.
@@4NT1N008 I saw this shit happening before EW even dropped. Even if people didn't like Eureka/Bozja, it gave them something to do between patches. Not tying the new relic to DD makes people not wanna do it. People have NOTHING to do. I myself have went from logging in every day to logging in on Tuesdays, doing weeklies, then playing other games the entire week. People are scrapping the bottom of the barrel
Ranked is so dead that there was a someone pushing good win rates with bard by essentially playing a MOBA support and setting up kills. The discord network decided to sandbag if the bard was on their team and they eventually stopped playing ranked. Their crime was not joining the primal pvp discord and calling our shot callers in front lines for stupid calls
Phew there are discord groups for PVP?!?, oh im so glad that that i got crystal rank for Season 1 and 2, since in SEASON 3 and 4 and i did not manage to get it and the playerbase has really dropped by a lot, but luckily you can always grind for frontline wins since current CC seems to be a nightmare to even play
@@soldierorsomething primal uses it as a way to gatekeep. Voice lobbies and everything for frontline and cc. Just use your character name and hop in the correct channel, look for people in your party list in voice. Lots of drama happens, lots of people get banned.
@@ltrpwd Oh so those are the 4 player premade TANK stackers that like to wipe whole teams on frontline, they are nice opponent to play against but if you get on their radar and you end up on the same team then they will kick you out from the frontline match right at the end so that you lose your win/xp :D
You can use "," and "." shortcut to move the video frames instead of rewatching the 5s back and trying to time it. Anyway, I share the same sentiment, don't really care what people do in ranked. Even thought, some of those names are familiar since I used to play PVP a lot for the mounts.
As someone involved in this drama, *clears throat* this is old news, nothing changed, 0 consequences happened and nobody really cared about anything except the "Trial of Nergo" to shit on the cheaters/wintraders and then pretty much moved on. Only the memes stayed so far and I think they will never let go of those since ffxiv is pretty much dry when it comes to memes. It took me like 2 attempts to get the Rich Madge meme to stick in Xeno's chat back then... Smol multi dollar indie dev company can't make "elo" account wide for some reason, shit match making that is easy to manipulate on top of being shit by itself, enforced latency that encourages ffxiv alex and no clippy and its extremely tough to play against these tools (duh). 0 balancing *looks at chiten, chainsaw, every stall job AND SO MUCH MORE :D* TL;DR Square Enix doesn't care, big news...
@@xviii5780 only 95% deletes 3% of the time, got to SAM for 100% 100% of the time... unless you got tools to stop you from hitting SAMs while they have their shield up...
Xeems doesn't seem to understand that it's not a lot of people that were helping them wintrade, you can wintrade with just two people, it's all you need.
@@plattbagarn never to this extent though. I'm not saying that there hasnt been drama. just that its never been this much drama packed into like 3 months. like i dont go out of my way to look up this stuff but i still saw so many diff videos about "ffxiv drama" in the last few months. while in the past it was something like "oh mr happys guide is wrong" or "oh people are wintrading in feast again" or something like that. to be fair the community has grown a LOT in the past two years
Cheaters have always plagued PvP in FFXIV it's nothing new, the add-ons have always been there and they're actually quite easy to spot sometimes but reporting them won't do anything because you don't have "proof". I'd argue PvP as a whole was made worse in Endwalker, which was pretty hard to do considering it's never been close to a good experience. CC is an okay mode, RW is an okay mode and Frontline is the worst PvP experience anybody has ever had in any video game, yet that's the one that has a roulette/most soul crushing achievements for some unknown reason. Frontline needs a massive rework; needs to lose the whole 3 teams thing because it's awful, reduce the players per team so a solo player can actually have some impact on the game and reduce the length of each match. Would also like to see them reverting the changes they made to PvP jobs in EW but I doubt that will happen, a lot of people seem to think being stunned for half the game with no way of pre-purification to outplay it is good. Probably the same people who don't buff in dungeons and single-pull while sat looking like an Oblivion NPC.
Frontlines indeed is a joke. Most of the time it ends with a 2v1 against the winning team. And then it's also full of people like me who just mash some random buttons for easy exp.
its similar to when speed runners get caught cheating, even if they only cheated ONE run, it makes the entire community question the legitimacy of all their runs, and often times its found out that older runs were also faked... so that person SAYS they only cheated S2 and did the rest legit, but there's just no trust at that point, lol. The saying i heard growing up was "once a cheater always a cheater" but i think "once a cheater hard to trust" is more accurate.
I hate whoever edited that video... like come on, knock it off with all the cuts to black, just hold the image instead of leaving a ton of black shots, then people can ACTUALLY READ WTF IS IN THE IMAGES
Every time I finish a video, there’s another drama video on the channel. Big fan of news n such, cuz Xeno has pretty level headed takes, but hot damn it’s happening a lot
@@MrAlekking People acting like covid didn't happen. That shit takes time, you can't just cram the schedule full of new shit when you're already working on catching up. Sure, let's go back to crunching devs until they work themselves to death, great solution.
@@chstens Yeah, didn’t the devs tell players to play other games or something? You don’t have to grind out everything at once, no life ff, etc. I honestly prefer the longer it takes to push out another patch
@@Tokki975 They always have. The FF14 playerbase is just dumb as rocks and dripping with so much entitlement it'd make a north korean general blush. Anyone who want the devs to "make up for" that extra month can go make up for a month of work in their own job, see how they'd enjoy it.
It's funny how crystalline conflict has so much more exposure about win trading when feast rankings were ALWAYS full of wintrading and that's why you wouldn't see many changes from who's top 100 and yes even their alts win trade. Win trading was also a double standard back then. Close groups of rankers would win trade (sometimes called out for it but it was never a big deal) however, if a new person(s) the regular rankers noticed were wintrading, they would all go out of their way to focus the new ranker and talk big about how "bad" wintrading is... aka, "I can do it but you cant" mentality lol my guess for the reason wintrading is being discussed more now is a) content drought and b) pvp community has increased. How did it increaset? Well, most feasters HATE crystal conflict and the way frontlines is so they have either quit pvp in ff14 altogether or play it sparingly. Don't get me wrong, they will still play competitively but you'll hear them all the time crying about how pvp isn't the same; mainly because they're getting steam-rolled by "newbies" now unless the feasters are running in a pre-made party. Anyway, the small amount of feasters who monopolized the rankings were replaced by the many casual pvpers due to the new mode and pvp system so there's actually MORE players interested in pvp now which means more mouths talking. That's why everyone is paying attention to "drama." Unless you witnessed the wintrading yourself, you wouldn't know it but 99.9% of the feasters I know and are friends with on Crystal DC have taken part in it altho they would never ever admit it (because you're not supposed to admit these things anyway, it's one of those "Don't speak and it never happened, everyone is happy").
I am not going to mention how I strongly disagree with the idea that "You gotta cheat to win in game or real life", the overall idea of a niche like raiding, PvP, or anything, not only in the game but real life as well, is that people need to maintain the enviromnent, is not about the people who does not give a flying fuck about it, is about the few who actually cares. Sadly those scenes in FFXIV is like that since ever, PvE and PvP, and SE does not do shit because they keep earning money with the hundreds of bots, and everything else. Example: People been botting as healer in ROULETTE since ever, if people want this bad to play mobile AFK farm just go play another game.
Its a game. Its meant to be FUN. Its meant to be a place where you dont have to deal with bullshit like cheating. The fact it still happens doesnt mean you have to accept it and live with it. Fuck it. Get angry about it.
This for real ? This has been happening literally FOREVER. It's why I can't take rank PvP seriously. You'll always have one person on your team that does 3 times and do like 10k dps. It's sooooo obvious when it happens.
An MMORPG without an anti-cheat or something to detect illegal activities / mods unless you mention them. What could go wrong... SE simply just doesn't care about what's happening
I'm sure they make this into drama to have a way to avoid real talks about real issues in the game, we all know how well criticism and the ffxiv community go together.
I love all the drama that’s been leaking out, it’s great content especially our cute strummer reacts to it. But honestly I’m not even surprised at all, these dramas has always been in FFXIV since years ago and just not really released in the public. Now that the game has clout, the stench now kinda is noticeable.
3 weeks old video, mass report happened at that time also (once again), still not banned nor taken from leaderboard or anything :') gotta love Square Enix
What's more depressing and sad is that all this 'drama' over CC rank 1 stuff is like superficial and copypasted assets minus a numerical number for all seasons. This isn't like before where mounts and stuff were involved. This is straight up bitching and crying over a T-shirt that has the number 2 on it instead of the number 1. It's so pointless it boggles my mind people even win trade CC at all. Even the titles are nothing special!
I did care until they nerfed SCH and add rank decay for S3. After those announcements, I knew rank match was dead. Yet, the community in ff14 forums saying I don’t know what I’m talking about. Now in season 5, NOBODY CARES!!! Just silence……..
I seriously don't get why ppl get so mad about other players cheating in mmorpg pvp content. There's literally no skill in playing that, no fun to play nor fun to watch.
Fightning games in general have pretty acurate ranking systems. Yeah nowadays you may have someone cheating online with a bot but those are usually far from being the top 1 player on the ranks. What I want to say is of course it is possible to create a pvp environment which cheating is not the best way to win, other games can do this why FFXIV can't? Counter Strike, SF5, Guilty Gear: Strive, all those games have strict cheating policies and you just lose your account. so I disagree, you don't need to come with the mentality that everyone will cheat in the game. That only happens if the company/devs doesn't care about it.
yeah ff14 players are just bored, instead of taking a break and coming back later ( LIKE THE LITERAL PRODUCER SAID ) for more to do they just cause useless drama
Ranked is full of auto bot cheaters that has the rotation done for them, yes you read that right, the one game mode where there is only a handful of buttons has people who use a cheat prgoram to do their abilities for them. Including auto shield and auto heals and auto cleanse.
There is no PVP drama. All you posers need to know is that Twin Adder always get clapped and they don't know what they are doing. Also... -Inmortal Flames win.
Adding the fact that FFXIV PvP is garbage make this video even funnier knowing that a few randos spent so much energy on reaching rank 1 non legitimately in a game mode that is just not fun.
NGL, super disappointed that this was just about wintrading. This isn't even a good story. Win-trading occuring in this kind of environment is the default, not the exception. You should already be assuming it is happening.
I was interested in pvp and joined pvpaissa about a year back. It was the most circle jerky server ever with mods getting a severe high off of favoritism. They gave me a warning for "shit talking" in discord when they totally missed all social queues and missed that I was having a mutual exchange of tongue in cheek jokes with other players. But because the mod didn't like me and even passive aggressively called me egotistical, I was given a warning but everyone else seemed to have gotten a pass. I just took it upon myself after that to leave the discord since that shit was rotten to the core with shit attitude mods. Lifes been great, I recommend not giving a shit about pvp in 14 :D
Nergo has been openly wintrading and cheating for years now, the whole Revival discord is a shitshow and they are just openly discussing / planning wintrading, no one cares anymore, even with all the evidence they will never get banned. Like 10 of the top100 queues outside midnight to 5am when they wintrade around. At the end of the day PvP is dead because SE doesn't care about it, no balance changes even though clear issues, ranked rewards are still utter dog and none of the cheaters were ever banned. Bryan also endorses all the bs thats ongoing on his discord
I NEVER want to hear another person in FFXIV talk down about ANY OTHER GAME AND ITS RESPECTIVE DRAMA. Holy hell what a dramatic fanbase. I'm ashamed to be apart of it at this point.
@@yasuke3020 For the second time someone here answer me like this. React enjoyers are a really a special kind. NO sir, it's not a 'me' problem, its a obvious problem. Quality content is associated with diverse content. If you only replicate content, you are not creating new but just replicating what is already there. Be happy with your point tho, even if reality disagrees. Try to talk about such streamers/youtubers dramas in-game and see how many people know about such bullshit.
@@luiz8755 do you even log into FF? Or do you think your experiences on your Data Center speak entirely for the FF community? Do you engage with this community at all? Or is it strictly policing comments in RUclips sections related to it? And if react content is killing entertainment, why are you here telling others how to fucking react? And how does any of that actually contradict what I stated? The FF community, is here talking about this issue. I'm sorry you don't like streamers, I'm personally not online long enough to form that kind of resentment. But keep it to yourself.
....... How many days since xeems last video I commented about "how long 14 community can go without drama " 3 or 5 days ago ????? I guess they win the 1 day without drama. Edit : it's 2 days ago..... So 14 can't even last 3 days but able to last 1 day.
I just doing it for the false monarchy armor. I think I count you have to do like 108k points to reach lvl 25. which is around 154x in 1 series, if you lose all cc match. did it like 10 a week, done.
Maybe im just a boomer but what the ACTUAL FUCK is the point of putting one frame images/memes? Does it benefit them as a content creator to have people constantly pausing the video every 5 seconds and backtracking to read/look? It's not so bad when done sparingly but JFC this video gives me Forrest Whitaker eye. Like I get the whole witch hunt thing but if these players are as infamous in EU as this appears blacking out/changing the names would have gotten the point across just as well, especially if they are indeed banned.
Coming from online multiplayer fps this isn't drama just complaints about the system getting exploited and players getting screwed over so something akin to griefing
I couldn't care less about cheaters and PVP. PVP is the most broken RNG luck based bullshit there ever was. Unless you're standing on some cliff just running around in circles to avoid being kicked you will not survive PvP. No one plays it fair All you get are people ganging up on one person six on one like that person has even a snowballs chance in hell of escaping or surviving. No one does the mechanics of the PvP. It's just one giant rage inducing meat grinder. Skill doesn't enter into it. You're running around with a slingshot in your hand while everyone else has AK-47s and rocket launchers
I agreed with Xeno opinion about 'in life to win sometimes one needs to cheat'. I am ok with cheaters in life, but the thing is that. Cheating in life have certain risk to it, those who is cheating is also gambling, because if they get caught they have to face consequences(by law or by disqualfying). Its all fair game, you cheat you gamble. In FFXIV on the other hand, cheating in pvp has zero repercussion, the three cheaters that get caught, still cheating till these day. The dev owns the game, I think to fight cheating in game is easier than fighting cheating irl, yet they didn't do a damn thing about it. Which makes pvp in ffxiv worst than a real life competition due to its risk free cheating nature.
This what happens when an mmo reaches this level of popularity, nonstop drama lol. While I definitely think they should be banned, this guy making the video seems a little butthurt about the whole situation. Seems like the real purpose of the video was to try and get square to take action against their accounts.
As far as I can tell, PvP has always been various levels of shitshow. Even if it's gotten a little less worse than before, it's still not surprising that there's some bullshit going on.
Bruh to think i kinda looked upto nergo pvp skills back in day 😂😂 We used to slaughter tf out of hordes of players in frontlines before drk salted earth was even a thing.
pvp drama? Is there anything in ffxiv not having drama? TOP drama, static drama, party finder drama, chair drama…
Pvp cheating has always been a thing, even back during time there was Feast
People gotta be people. There will ALWAYS be drama, it is just that usually content tends to overshadow the drama (i.e. 6.0 release, savages, etc.), but in a content lull (which happens usually at the X.3 or X.5 patches) these things get noticed more often as content creators need to pump numbers up. PvP cheating has been a thing forever even with the revamp, the best Square can do is just take them off the leaderboard if there is a proven record of win trading (even then it takes weeks for them to investigate).
Mahjong drama when?
@@tartarusjojo3448 there's already that, just like the win trading in pvp they do it there too lol
@@tartarusjojo3448 no one in their right mind plays mahjong and cheating at it you might well be ready for long boring game.
ffxiv youtubers eating good because of the drama
The issue is that Square just doesn't punish admitted cheaters in PvP, they havn't since Season 2 of Feast
I'm gonna be honest... I care less about wintraders and more about people using auto plugins to CC me the exact moment I hit the limit break. The people who actively ruin games by using tools to give them advantage.
@@kenamada5451 that’s… cheating. Through and through lmao
@@knightsolaire5351 Sorry I meant to say wintraders
@@kenamada5451 Both are cheating, but i get what you mean.
You know it's bad when their report function doesn't even have a category for cheat software.
Pvp "drama" always been around. Back when we had Feasts, there always people trying to win trade this is not new. Honestly, it's dumb for CC. There is no amazing reward for topping cc rank. These people wasting money for some shitty bragging rights. At least during Feast it was for unique mounts.
You can do frontlines roullete for most of your rewards.
Agreed, that is why pvp in ffxiv never got to grown into its own thing. It was bad back then, and it is still bad right now sadly...I will even say it is worst now since you can't even play cc with your friends.
@Lofi Piggy i blame the obsuered amount of crowd control classes have and spam. Even after you use pruify you almost get stunlocked shortly after or slowed down no way to really escape after that.
Long time PvP player and you are absolutely correct. The small amount of dedicated PvPers we had around back in the day still had drama. I have a friend who earned all the old Feast gear legit and people still say he cheated his way up there. I got Crystal first season and wanted to try hitting top 100 the second season but I was waiting 40mins for ONE RANKED queue. That was months ago, I can't imagine it now. PvP is fucking dead. Just run your daily frontlines and be done with it.
@Prism Heavy, honestly, i tried doing cc ranked, but it also has the most broken piece of shit. A unranked player, vs. Bronze silver and gold players. Even once i get into bronze, im still vs. teams that way above my pvp abilities, that like detering me from even try to do ranked. Better off running casual and pray i get my wins to get the garo mounts for cc.
Bro, I want GARO mount... but those 60 wins... ugh...
But yeah, I would prefer doing daily Frontline rather spam CC and hope for win
What hurting the most is a lack of balancing, terrible netcode (the server tick is a joke for pvp), no group queue and insufferable cheaters/wintraders. Wintraders could easily be detected but that would be too much to ask for, wouldn't it?
no group queue is such a pain, CC is the only PvP what is a enjoyable.. kinda.. for me and then you need luck to be in the same team like your friends
Ranked CC is only enjoyable if you got to team with ppl that actually know to play, even you ended up lose because that way you can actually learn from your mistake and from the better opponents
If you play with ppl that know no shit, and don't follow your lead in the quick chat, is a recipe for inatant headache (at least for me)
Tl;dr just play custom match/casual, the playerbase isnt equipped enough to do rank & take criticism on their bad play
I had actual fun when healing for The Feast because a single second doing nothing would mean people died, even with shitty balance it was still an enjoyable experience. Until I got into higher ranks and the ping barrier was obvious.
I really can't believe casting a spell has so much client side handling, why the fuck can I keep casting shit if I'm literally offline? The animations are not even tied to the actual effects, you can cast a spell and the damage will come 90 seconds after the animation ended.
Then they decided to put bomberman into the new mode and an actual mathematically unbalanced mode. And everyone loved it. We lost.
@@crownmemory6945 yup even if you loose with good players, the match was still fun
Bro Yoshi P needs to work on that end game real quick because the FFXIV appears to be bored af with all this drama.
ikr. literally at the point where it's for the love of hydelean, give 14 some sort of endgame that takes more than a week or 2 to do. some repeatable pve content...SOMETHING at this point. like 14 is much more in the public spotlight over the past couple yrs so of course there is waaay more publicity for the game. and actually put some kind of incentive to do it b/c lets face it, materia ain't incentive to do it..lookin at u criterion dungeons. *glare*
@@4NT1N008 I think the problem is, despite them saying months prior, Island Sanctuary is the exploratory zone. It seems no one realized how much of a big miss this would be and added to the incentive to do something overtime.
i need something like bozja ;_;
@@4NT1N008 I saw this shit happening before EW even dropped. Even if people didn't like Eureka/Bozja, it gave them something to do between patches. Not tying the new relic to DD makes people not wanna do it. People have NOTHING to do. I myself have went from logging in every day to logging in on Tuesdays, doing weeklies, then playing other games the entire week.
People are scrapping the bottom of the barrel
Who cares? Just hang out in limsa 🙂
Ranked is so dead that there was a someone pushing good win rates with bard by essentially playing a MOBA support and setting up kills. The discord network decided to sandbag if the bard was on their team and they eventually stopped playing ranked. Their crime was not joining the primal pvp discord and calling our shot callers in front lines for stupid calls
Phew there are discord groups for PVP?!?, oh im so glad that that i got crystal rank for Season 1 and 2, since in SEASON 3 and 4 and i did not manage to get it and the playerbase has really dropped by a lot, but luckily you can always grind for frontline wins since current CC seems to be a nightmare to even play
@@soldierorsomething primal uses it as a way to gatekeep. Voice lobbies and everything for frontline and cc. Just use your character name and hop in the correct channel, look for people in your party list in voice. Lots of drama happens, lots of people get banned.
@@ltrpwd Oh so those are the 4 player premade TANK stackers that like to wipe whole teams on frontline, they are nice opponent to play against but if you get on their radar and you end up on the same team then they will kick you out from the frontline match right at the end so that you lose your win/xp :D
@@soldierorsomething yeah, just don’t let it get to you. Keep playing and having fun. Like Reddit, it’s probably best to avoid discord
AKA Primal Discord Illuminati I been callin em out since Day 1 like Alex Jones n shit... I got the documents
You can use "," and "." shortcut to move the video frames instead of rewatching the 5s back and trying to time it.
Anyway, I share the same sentiment, don't really care what people do in ranked. Even thought, some of those names are familiar since I used to play PVP a lot for the mounts.
I'm waiting for the ERP bottoming drama.
As someone involved in this drama, *clears throat* this is old news, nothing changed, 0 consequences happened and nobody really cared about anything except the "Trial of Nergo" to shit on the cheaters/wintraders and then pretty much moved on.
Only the memes stayed so far and I think they will never let go of those since ffxiv is pretty much dry when it comes to memes.
It took me like 2 attempts to get the Rich Madge meme to stick in Xeno's chat back then...
Smol multi dollar indie dev company can't make "elo" account wide for some reason, shit match making that is easy to manipulate on top of being shit by itself, enforced latency that encourages ffxiv alex and no clippy and its extremely tough to play against these tools (duh). 0 balancing *looks at chiten, chainsaw, every stall job AND SO MUCH MORE :D*
TL;DR Square Enix doesn't care, big news...
hey alright
I think the fact that SE even made an ability that deletes the target with a 3% chance kinda shows that they don't give a shit about competitive pvp
@@xviii5780 only 95% deletes 3% of the time, got to SAM for 100% 100% of the time... unless you got tools to stop you from hitting SAMs while they have their shield up...
Xeems doesn't seem to understand that it's not a lot of people that were helping them wintrade, you can wintrade with just two people, it's all you need.
I started the game like 2 months ago and it seems like there has been a new drama every single day I've played lmfao
There honestly isn't especially when you compare to other games That just been a lot of shit going on the past couple.
Honestly been playing 7 years now. never had this much drama in this short of a time.
Content drought during odd patches leading to drama is a constant thing.
@@Peaceful_Hermit its crazy how much different the community is now vs then, never should have stopped gatekeeping lmfao
@@plattbagarn never to this extent though. I'm not saying that there hasnt been drama. just that its never been this much drama packed into like 3 months.
like i dont go out of my way to look up this stuff but i still saw so many diff videos about "ffxiv drama" in the last few months.
while in the past it was something like "oh mr happys guide is wrong" or "oh people are wintrading in feast again" or something like that.
to be fair the community has grown a LOT in the past two years
Cheaters have always plagued PvP in FFXIV it's nothing new, the add-ons have always been there and they're actually quite easy to spot sometimes but reporting them won't do anything because you don't have "proof". I'd argue PvP as a whole was made worse in Endwalker, which was pretty hard to do considering it's never been close to a good experience. CC is an okay mode, RW is an okay mode and Frontline is the worst PvP experience anybody has ever had in any video game, yet that's the one that has a roulette/most soul crushing achievements for some unknown reason. Frontline needs a massive rework; needs to lose the whole 3 teams thing because it's awful, reduce the players per team so a solo player can actually have some impact on the game and reduce the length of each match. Would also like to see them reverting the changes they made to PvP jobs in EW but I doubt that will happen, a lot of people seem to think being stunned for half the game with no way of pre-purification to outplay it is good. Probably the same people who don't buff in dungeons and single-pull while sat looking like an Oblivion NPC.
Frontlines indeed is a joke. Most of the time it ends with a 2v1 against the winning team. And then it's also full of people like me who just mash some random buttons for easy exp.
@@jeanemare4116 if you put no effort at all into it, is the mode a joke or is the player the joke?
All this drama is more entertaining that a late-night telenovela at this rate. FFXIV is an MMO? Nay sir it is now theater.
So the drama so far 2023 :
* TOP cheating
* G-shade injection
* PvP win trading
* Lalafell chair furniture
"You are literally yelling"
@@marcuscorvin9998 "No I'm asking you to take a step back"
its similar to when speed runners get caught cheating, even if they only cheated ONE run, it makes the entire community question the legitimacy of all their runs, and often times its found out that older runs were also faked... so that person SAYS they only cheated S2 and did the rest legit, but there's just no trust at that point, lol. The saying i heard growing up was "once a cheater always a cheater" but i think "once a cheater hard to trust" is more accurate.
I hate whoever edited that video... like come on, knock it off with all the cuts to black, just hold the image instead of leaving a ton of black shots, then people can ACTUALLY READ WTF IS IN THE IMAGES
Every time I finish a video, there’s another drama video on the channel. Big fan of news n such, cuz Xeno has pretty level headed takes, but hot damn it’s happening a lot
Drama? *ffxiv community breaks thru the doors foaming at the mouth*
This is what happens when you extend your patch cadence to turn an additional 25% of the year into content drought.
its that plus they have no plans to compensate for that 1 extra month drought
@@MrAlekking People acting like covid didn't happen. That shit takes time, you can't just cram the schedule full of new shit when you're already working on catching up. Sure, let's go back to crunching devs until they work themselves to death, great solution.
@@chstens Stop being a white knight holy f.
@@chstens Yeah, didn’t the devs tell players to play other games or something? You don’t have to grind out everything at once, no life ff, etc. I honestly prefer the longer it takes to push out another patch
@@Tokki975 They always have. The FF14 playerbase is just dumb as rocks and dripping with so much entitlement it'd make a north korean general blush. Anyone who want the devs to "make up for" that extra month can go make up for a month of work in their own job, see how they'd enjoy it.
God damn its barely been another week and drama is around the corner.
This is older though
@suckemfuckem7777 oh okay, sheesh thought this was new.
Somebody needs to compile a post or video documenting hunt-related drama so Xeno can complete his collection.
Were you around for when world travel launched? ;D Good dramas.
It's funny how crystalline conflict has so much more exposure about win trading when feast rankings were ALWAYS full of wintrading and that's why you wouldn't see many changes from who's top 100 and yes even their alts win trade. Win trading was also a double standard back then. Close groups of rankers would win trade (sometimes called out for it but it was never a big deal) however, if a new person(s) the regular rankers noticed were wintrading, they would all go out of their way to focus the new ranker and talk big about how "bad" wintrading is... aka, "I can do it but you cant" mentality lol my guess for the reason wintrading is being discussed more now is a) content drought and b) pvp community has increased. How did it increaset? Well, most feasters HATE crystal conflict and the way frontlines is so they have either quit pvp in ff14 altogether or play it sparingly. Don't get me wrong, they will still play competitively but you'll hear them all the time crying about how pvp isn't the same; mainly because they're getting steam-rolled by "newbies" now unless the feasters are running in a pre-made party. Anyway, the small amount of feasters who monopolized the rankings were replaced by the many casual pvpers due to the new mode and pvp system so there's actually MORE players interested in pvp now which means more mouths talking. That's why everyone is paying attention to "drama." Unless you witnessed the wintrading yourself, you wouldn't know it but 99.9% of the feasters I know and are friends with on Crystal DC have taken part in it altho they would never ever admit it (because you're not supposed to admit these things anyway, it's one of those "Don't speak and it never happened, everyone is happy").
People really take pvp seriously in a game where it takes 3 seconds for server tick to register stuff lmao
You just need to see in to the future and use your GUARD, before the enemy team dives and stunlocks you :;D
@@soldierorsomethingl.m.a.o
I am not going to mention how I strongly disagree with the idea that "You gotta cheat to win in game or real life", the overall idea of a niche like raiding, PvP, or anything, not only in the game but real life as well, is that people need to maintain the enviromnent, is not about the people who does not give a flying fuck about it, is about the few who actually cares.
Sadly those scenes in FFXIV is like that since ever, PvE and PvP, and SE does not do shit because they keep earning money with the hundreds of bots, and everything else.
Example: People been botting as healer in ROULETTE since ever, if people want this bad to play mobile AFK farm just go play another game.
Its a game. Its meant to be FUN. Its meant to be a place where you dont have to deal with bullshit like cheating. The fact it still happens doesnt mean you have to accept it and live with it. Fuck it. Get angry about it.
This for real ? This has been happening literally FOREVER. It's why I can't take rank PvP seriously. You'll always have one person on your team that does 3 times and do like 10k dps. It's sooooo obvious when it happens.
Imagine giving a shit about pvp in ff14. Game has some of the worst pvp of any mmo even after the rework.
What an obnoxious video you reacted to. How can anyone take that seriously.
The amount of split second cuts is insane. And I'm less than 1 minute in lol
Helps someone cheat multiple times. Also Ahri, "I wAs 100% LeGiT oN pRiMaL".
wake up babe, new drama just dropped in FF14.
An MMORPG without an anti-cheat or something to detect illegal activities / mods unless you mention them. What could go wrong... SE simply just doesn't care about what's happening
I'm sure they make this into drama to have a way to avoid real talks about real issues in the game, we all know how well criticism and the ffxiv community go together.
I love all the drama that’s been leaking out, it’s great content especially our cute strummer reacts to it. But honestly I’m not even surprised at all, these dramas has always been in FFXIV since years ago and just not really released in the public. Now that the game has clout, the stench now kinda is noticeable.
3 weeks old video, mass report happened at that time also (once again), still not banned nor taken from leaderboard or anything :') gotta love Square Enix
not even surprised this is from EU, I play on NA even as an Italian because the sheer amount of salt in this game on EU servers is a death sentence 😂
Totally not a drama streamer btw
"The community isn't stupid" *proceeds to define 'EU' for the community*
What's more depressing and sad is that all this 'drama' over CC rank 1 stuff is like superficial and copypasted assets minus a numerical number for all seasons. This isn't like before where mounts and stuff were involved. This is straight up bitching and crying over a T-shirt that has the number 2 on it instead of the number 1.
It's so pointless it boggles my mind people even win trade CC at all. Even the titles are nothing special!
Imagine cheating to be high rank in an MMO category that FFXIV is sub-par in.
Lol I just drone through CC to get the False Monarchy set.
This is why I hate competitive games, because people are either paying for first place or cheating / exploiting for it, there is no in between.
I did care until they nerfed SCH and add rank decay for S3. After those announcements, I knew rank match was dead. Yet, the community in ff14 forums saying I don’t know what I’m talking about. Now in season 5, NOBODY CARES!!! Just silence……..
Is this a drama channel now? 🤔
I seriously don't get why ppl get so mad about other players cheating in mmorpg pvp content. There's literally no skill in playing that, no fun to play nor fun to watch.
"The Feast" me an old ass fucking PvP player from the stone ages... "You must be new here"
Fightning games in general have pretty acurate ranking systems. Yeah nowadays you may have someone cheating online with a bot but those are usually far from being the top 1 player on the ranks. What I want to say is of course it is possible to create a pvp environment which cheating is not the best way to win, other games can do this why FFXIV can't? Counter Strike, SF5, Guilty Gear: Strive, all those games have strict cheating policies and you just lose your account.
so I disagree, you don't need to come with the mentality that everyone will cheat in the game. That only happens if the company/devs doesn't care about it.
yeah ff14 players are just bored, instead of taking a break and coming back later ( LIKE THE LITERAL PRODUCER SAID ) for more to do they just cause useless drama
Cheaters usually win, and I’m not a winner so I can ride this high horse down to the losers table
The way it was presented makes me thought that I was watching FFXIV true crime / documentary react 😂
Ranked is full of auto bot cheaters that has the rotation done for them, yes you read that right, the one game mode where there is only a handful of buttons has people who use a cheat prgoram to do their abilities for them. Including auto shield and auto heals and auto cleanse.
So much drama lately pepeW
Is this what FF14 has become drama ? Seriously
The only content in FF is drama apparently. The absolute state of this game right now.
There is no PVP drama. All you posers need to know is that Twin Adder always get clapped and they don't know what they are doing.
Also...
-Inmortal Flames win.
Whats the fast track that comes in?
Who cares about pvp rank anyway? Just play the game and move on. All games with any form of pvp are gonna have cheaters. Nothing new here.
Adding the fact that FFXIV PvP is garbage make this video even funnier knowing that a few randos spent so much energy on reaching rank 1 non legitimately in a game mode that is just not fun.
NGL, super disappointed that this was just about wintrading. This isn't even a good story. Win-trading occuring in this kind of environment is the default, not the exception. You should already be assuming it is happening.
I was interested in pvp and joined pvpaissa about a year back. It was the most circle jerky server ever with mods getting a severe high off of favoritism. They gave me a warning for "shit talking" in discord when they totally missed all social queues and missed that I was having a mutual exchange of tongue in cheek jokes with other players. But because the mod didn't like me and even passive aggressively called me egotistical, I was given a warning but everyone else seemed to have gotten a pass. I just took it upon myself after that to leave the discord since that shit was rotten to the core with shit attitude mods. Lifes been great, I recommend not giving a shit about pvp in 14 :D
XIV Drama~ XIV Drama Everywhere~~
As with any leaderboard in any kind of game, the legitimate Rank 1 is sitting at Rank 8 or some shit.
Nergo has been openly wintrading and cheating for years now, the whole Revival discord is a shitshow and they are just openly discussing / planning wintrading, no one cares anymore, even with all the evidence they will never get banned. Like 10 of the top100 queues outside midnight to 5am when they wintrade around. At the end of the day PvP is dead because SE doesn't care about it, no balance changes even though clear issues, ranked rewards are still utter dog and none of the cheaters were ever banned. Bryan also endorses all the bs thats ongoing on his discord
Didn't you get banned from Revival cause you harassed people and called someone a pedo????
I NEVER want to hear another person in FFXIV talk down about ANY OTHER GAME AND ITS RESPECTIVE DRAMA.
Holy hell what a dramatic fanbase. I'm ashamed to be apart of it at this point.
Naaa it's never that big. You will barely hear about it in-game.
It's just a youtuber/streamer thing.
React content is killing entertainment.
@@luiz8755 if you are letting content creators kill content for you, that's a you problem.
My point stands.
@@yasuke3020 For the second time someone here answer me like this. React enjoyers are a really a special kind.
NO sir, it's not a 'me' problem, its a obvious problem. Quality content is associated with diverse content. If you only replicate content, you are not creating new but just replicating what is already there.
Be happy with your point tho, even if reality disagrees. Try to talk about such streamers/youtubers dramas in-game and see how many people know about such bullshit.
@@luiz8755 do you even log into FF? Or do you think your experiences on your Data Center speak entirely for the FF community?
Do you engage with this community at all? Or is it strictly policing comments in RUclips sections related to it? And if react content is killing entertainment, why are you here telling others how to fucking react?
And how does any of that actually contradict what I stated? The FF community, is here talking about this issue. I'm sorry you don't like streamers, I'm personally not online long enough to form that kind of resentment.
But keep it to yourself.
that Ahri guy I met him a bunch of times during my ranking match....a main ninja right?
....... How many days since xeems last video I commented about "how long 14 community can go without drama "
3 or 5 days ago ????? I guess they win the 1 day without drama.
Edit : it's 2 days ago..... So 14 can't even last 3 days but able to last 1 day.
We really do have some outright betas that play this game.....smh lol thanks for the funny coverage Xeems!
Apart from the drama, the one thing I find hilarious is the narrator trying to sound like louisiox.
Oh wow, another drama ResidentSleeper
Lemme guess, they're all french.
Baldie forgot to add that cheating has consequences. We know ppl cheat but doesn't mean theres no consequences! NOw when will you play witcher 3? =D
pvp in near any game that is designed fundamentally around pve is irrelevant, crazy how people get upset about this nonsense
The thing I don't like about this video, is a A LOT of context that isn't mentioned.
Whats the problem with wintrading? It doesn't seem like it actually hurts anyone, but then again I don't care about rank at all. Just fun.
forgot FFXIV has PvP until this video dropped
I just doing it for the false monarchy armor. I think I count you have to do like 108k points to reach lvl 25. which is around 154x in 1 series, if you lose all cc match. did it like 10 a week, done.
We have PVP?
We gonna end up having ffxiv drama “the drama content “
Maybe im just a boomer but what the ACTUAL FUCK is the point of putting one frame images/memes? Does it benefit them as a content creator to have people constantly pausing the video every 5 seconds and backtracking to read/look? It's not so bad when done sparingly but JFC this video gives me Forrest Whitaker eye. Like I get the whole witch hunt thing but if these players are as infamous in EU as this appears blacking out/changing the names would have gotten the point across just as well, especially if they are indeed banned.
Coming from online multiplayer fps this isn't drama just complaints about the system getting exploited and players getting screwed over so something akin to griefing
Yeah, this kind of stuff pales when compared to FPS lobby drama.
FFXIV pvp stopped being relevant the moment it was revealed that hacks are possible. Its a nothingburger that you just use to level your classes.
Imagine getting heated about somebody being the top ranked player in a play mode nobody gives a fuck about? 🤣
How tf people actually take PvP seriously on ffxiv. It’s such cringe
Anyone know what the chest piece is at 2:18 aha
I believe you can buy it in the shop
I'm just trying to play some pvp games but 1h30 queue times cuck me out of even considering getting seasonal rewards
I couldn't care less about cheaters and PVP. PVP is the most broken RNG luck based bullshit there ever was. Unless you're standing on some cliff just running around in circles to avoid being kicked you will not survive PvP. No one plays it fair All you get are people ganging up on one person six on one like that person has even a snowballs chance in hell of escaping or surviving. No one does the mechanics of the PvP. It's just one giant rage inducing meat grinder. Skill doesn't enter into it. You're running around with a slingshot in your hand while everyone else has AK-47s and rocket launchers
Next FFXIV "drama", cheating in the Manderville Golden Saucer.....
Doesn't surprise me he resorted to this, Nergo is so trash I kept winning against him and always lost when he was on my team.
Yea pvp was always a cesspool...this is like crying over having one less nugget
Aether is full of pvp hacker too, nothing fresh for me.
I agreed with Xeno opinion about 'in life to win sometimes one needs to cheat'. I am ok with cheaters in life, but the thing is that. Cheating in life have certain risk to it, those who is cheating is also gambling, because if they get caught they have to face consequences(by law or by disqualfying). Its all fair game, you cheat you gamble. In FFXIV on the other hand, cheating in pvp has zero repercussion, the three cheaters that get caught, still cheating till these day. The dev owns the game, I think to fight cheating in game is easier than fighting cheating irl, yet they didn't do a damn thing about it. Which makes pvp in ffxiv worst than a real life competition due to its risk free cheating nature.
More drama from the drama channel. Tune in tomorrow for even more manufactured drama. Because if everything is fine, influencers can't get paid.
This what happens when an mmo reaches this level of popularity, nonstop drama lol. While I definitely think they should be banned, this guy making the video seems a little butthurt about the whole situation. Seems like the real purpose of the video was to try and get square to take action against their accounts.
of fucking course one of the wintraders is also a League player KEKW
Dramabeasts getting gluttonous these past few weeks. I look forward to the next issue rising in 4 days.
OMFG the nuclear takes on these comments at 1:38 in the video OMEGALUL you cant make this shit up.
3:05 lol exactly what I was thinking about nergigante
Queue up Primal
okay but can we talk about chairs again?
As far as I can tell, PvP has always been various levels of shitshow. Even if it's gotten a little less worse than before, it's still not surprising that there's some bullshit going on.
Bruh to think i kinda looked upto nergo pvp skills back in day 😂😂
We used to slaughter tf out of hordes of players in frontlines before drk salted earth was even a thing.