It wouldn’t be a FFXIV world-first race with out some debate over streaming or not streaming, however the RWF for the Futures Rewritten Final has gotten even crazier because the profitable group seems to have used banned plug-ins throughout their raid.
To make issues worse, the static, GRIND, was a non-streaming group – which means their progress wasn’t broadcast, solely their closing completion time.
Consequently their time has not been counted on the unofficial World First leaderboards and one other group, Kindred, which cleared the raid a day later, is at present on the high of the standings.
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FFXIV Futures Unwritten Final World First Race Ends in Controversy
The FFXIV Futures Unwritten Final race began on Nov. 26 and two days later, at round 7:30pm PT on Nov. 28, GRIND reported they’d cleared the raid. With different groups, comparable to Echo having the boss down to five% on the similar time, it was enormous lead, and a shock – given GRIND don’t stream their makes an attempt to protect their methods.
The non-streaming of RWF makes an attempt has been an on-going controversy in FFXIV for nearly so long as there was aggressive raiding. The groups who play off stream will file their runs, however not dwell streaming, main some to criticize their aggressive integrity.
Nevertheless, on Nov. 29 it was revealed that GRIND had allegedly used prohibited third-party instruments throughout their clear. In contrast to different MMOs, comparable to WoW, FFXIV has a reasonably strict coverage in opposition to plug-ins, mods, and third-party instruments, even issues comparable to harm meters. Throughout the Omega Protocol Final, lead producer and recreation director Naoki “Yoshi-P” Yoshida expressed his disappointment that the ‘profitable’ group had used plugins, condemning the act.
MogTalk creator and leaderboard admin ‘Frosty’ introduced on Nov. 29 that the plug-in would trigger GRIND to be faraway from the leaderboard.
The plug-in was allegedly one thing known as “pixel excellent.” In FFXIV, gamers’ hitboxes for space of impact assaults are literally solely a single invisible pixel on the heart of their character. The sport will register the placement of this pixel on the time the assault completes, and resolve whether or not you get hit or not (this can be a simplified clarification for the purpose of brevity). This plug-in makes that pixel seen, successfully making the method of dodging assaults less complicated.
Cloud of Darkness (Chaotic) would be the subsequent top-level problem for FFXIV gamers. Picture Credit score: Sq. Enix
What Subsequent For FFXIV RWF?
There’s been a bunch of points with the FFXIV RWF over latest years, from gamers not streaming their makes an attempt, to plug-in controversy, particular person points surrounding gamers, and even the suggestion that hardcore raiding is incompatible with FFXIV’s ToS.
These are additional compounded by a normal malaise within the FFXIV group across the present state of the sport and growth – and the timing of the brand new FFXIV content material releases.
Some have been disenchanted that each the brand new items of endgame hardcore content material, each the Futures Unwritten Final Raid, and the upcoming Cloud of Darkness 24-man Chaotic Raid, are scheduled to conflict with holidays (Futures Unwritten launched on Thanksgiving week, Might of Darkness will launch on Christmas Eve).
Regardless, there’s now a giant asterisk on this World First Race, and there’ll seemingly be adjustments to the format going ahead.
