Betrayal and drama in Final Fantasy XIV: the “best players” in the world are caught red-handed

The most important thing about an MMO is, without a doubt, the community. The multiplayer section of these titles it’s crucial, and play all the parts of the games. The biggest events of these RPGs are the most important to the players, and the latest and most difficult raid in Final Fantasy XIV has fired up the community for a plot of traps, betrayals and outrage.

The Omega Protocol (Ultimate) is the new ultimate difficulty fight (the highest in the game) that has been released with patch 6.3. With only 5 of these, being the first group to win is a prestigious mark that even culminates in congratulations from Square Enix and Naoki Yoshida, the game’s director and creator.

Initially, the team that had managed to reach the goal was the Japanese UNNAMED_, who did not provide any hints that they were working on it, nor did they offer streaming to show their progress. This raised suspicions of the most ill-considered, while the players were hiding behind the fact that they did not want other teams to be able to gossip about their strategies and apply them to their own progression. Now, the truth is much more surprising than this.

A mysterious YouTube account created a day before the official victory announcement has uploaded an incriminating video. Showing the point of view of one of the UNNAMED_ players, show how this one uses various hackssuch as one to move the camera away at distances greater than those allowed by the client, thus achieving an illegal advantage.

Most surprising is the provenance of this information. Not having broadcast his attempts to take down The Omega Weapon, the clip was recorded and distributed by one of the members of own group, who is likely to be a support player (someone who spends his time watching a closed-network broadcast of the game to give advice, calls for attention, or instructions to active players). This also leaves us with an internal betrayal inside UNNAMED_.

All this also has the aggravating factor of tensions between regions. During the previous Ultimate, Dragonsong’s Reprise, the Western World Firsts were caught using third party toolswhich culminated in public ridicule, especially from Japanese players.

Already then, Naoki Yoshida’s team warned that this type of behavior was unacceptable, and that it could lead the company to distance itself from the international race. The events of The Omega Protocol could lead to multiple bans, in addition to this fateful decision by Square Enix. For now, the controversy is served and has become the talk of the community.

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by Ivan Lerner.