Quote Originally Posted by nickx View Post
Not necessarily disagreeing with your gear point, however, I think most true hardcore PvPers aren't interested as much in the rank-less gear decision and will not be leaving PvP. If anything, the real hardcore PvPers are more about the competition and are impatiently waiting for the Feast.
I really don't think you know how PvPers actually think as a whole. We're impatiently waiting for the feast because we have nothing to work towards and PvP is rendered a minigame now, almost on par with the Gold Saucer at this point. We don't judge our competitiveness through fighting, but experience, and the best way we had to show that was our ranks. The gear restricted items we're a goal we could look forward to to show how far we've gotten after fighting each other for 2 years. Giving PvP rankless gear will only allow players who aren't inerested in PvP a chance to get the gear. PvPers will stay PvPers, SE changed nothing but took away a chunk of their devoted PvP players proof of their struggles to achieve what they had.

I'll give an example of how bad this is, and yes, its the same. Lets say I increased the level cap in the game to 70 and made it 2x harder than it was to level than 50-60. Then I'd allow the players to choose their rewards that could be a costume from any FF series. a month later after grinding for so long, many players achieved lvl 70 and gotten the gear of their choosing for 10k. SE updates the game and now all that gear can be achieved at lvl 1 for 10k as well. <--- thats what happened.