Crystalline Conflict Rewards (Day 1)

Hey,

I ranked Crystal in the first season of Crystalline Conflict (CC), there was a content drought so I unsubscribed for a few months. I came back and was a few days too late to claim my rewards. Every time there is a new season of CC I am reminded of the total injustice that is the way that PVP rewards are dealt with in this game. We have plenty of systems in the game for delivering items and rewards. Why are the rewards not simply mailed to you in game similar to a veteran reward? why not add achievements that you automatically earn at the end of the season where the reward can be claimed? Either of those options are better than the current system. I do not think someone in my position will ever be satisfied with missing out on a rewards that took countless hours to earn.

Anyway, apparently Square support and the Game Masters are unable (more like unwilling) to award these items after the time has passed to claim them. I have been directed countless times to post to the forums... so anyway here is "Day one of posting on the forums until I get what is owed to me and the system gets changed."

While you have a point regarding the daftness of the reward system, I want to raise a few points...

1.) Season 1 CC rewards are near-identical to Season 2 until now, minus the roman number 1 ("I"). If you do not care about the roman number on it, simply achieve crystal again and "don't" go away for over 2 months without at least grabbing your rewards.

2.) Since Season 1 CC was one of the seasons where you could not derank from a tier, achieving Crystal actually holds less meaning for that season as for when they introduced deranking if you lost enough matches.

3.) The rewards are really nothing to write home about - the title is identical, the amount of Trophy Crystals pales to what you get for simply playing pvp in general and the portrait elements are effectively the same each season. You lost virtually nothing.

First I want to say this response is not meant to be disrespectful.

1.) I am aware that the rewards are nearly identical. I actually care about the ("I") and it seems odd that you shouldn't be allowed to unsub when there is a lull in content seeing as the director himself encourages you to play other games.

2.) Season 1 may have been easier, but that doesn't take away the effort that was put in to earning crystal rank. You don't have to risk losing your relic weapon due to inactivity, you don't risk losing titles when you accomplish something in game. Why should you have to risk losing this achievement?

3.) Different rewards will have different meaning to different people. This game is set to go for another ten years, to me it means a lot to be able to show that I was Crystal rank in the very first season of CC. What kills me the most is that you are actually able to see your rank in the lodestone... so they have the information required to verify your rank. I am certain that the voucher to gain the rewards will have an item ID# in the code, meaning it should be technically possible for them to send you the item via Moogle Mail.

No one should be put in this position.

If the rewards specifically for season 1 are the dealbreaker, then my condolences to your loss. I don't have a whole lot to add here other than this system being established since way before Crystalline Conflict.

In hindsight now you know how the system works and I have my doubts they will ever rework this, but my personal word of advice - if you know there "is" a reward for something but you don't know "how" or "how long" it is available, it is prudent to actually learn about this by either interacting with the respective communities (plenty of PvP discords if not linkshells exist for this) or doing research by looking up ways to "lose" rewards.