RIP Minion Collectors :(

[Zofis]

A community team response to this topic would be pretty fantastic. I'd love to hear what the dev team was thinking here with two variants of each and the ranking requirements.

Honestly, the minion needs to be a participation reward for playing X number of ranked games in the season. I think that would be a lot more appropriate. The mount being a top reward is "kind of" okay with me, but the minion is just way too exclusive.

[Lone-wolfe-02]

A compromise would be great maybe add them as an ultra rare drop from the accursed horde?, not anytime soon of course but later down the line so those who have no chance at getting this minion have at least a small chance now.

[TiaHariberux3]

Cause SE have been know to not do exclusive stuff, oh you missed that season event that ok we will just throw it on the mogshop for you to buy it or new players demand that they get items from before they started playing and SE caves by bringing it back to the game or throwing them in the mogshop as said earlier but now they want to be "oh only limited very exclusive rewards for doing this content" and on top of that from what I have read even if you do PVP only the best of the best will get it.

Thats not true some stuff didnt came later in cash shop just let ppl have their minion shh

[Talraen]

Well pvp never worked out great on this game, probably the reason they are now adding minions and mounts to it. People are more invested or happier to just give it a try than prior. However it's not true that casual players can't get the items, I'm not sure if you have run pvp lately but I find myself often enough in groups with just casual people or win traders or people that just afk it fully. I don't think I've met a "good/best" pvp'er at least not on this game, not to mention that ffxiv isn't made for pvp compared to actual games that have a huge pvp popularity.

Just because you haven't met them doesn't mean there aren't at least 10 of them on your data center. Note, not server, data center. And this isn't a reward from a one-time thing, this is an overall ranking. You aren't going to luck into it.

This will get more people to do PvP, but only people who are overconfident and/or terrible at math. If they want an incentive, they need to make it achievable. This isn't.

[Welsper59]

I still remember when WoW first introduced Arena, with a mount being rewarded to only the best teams for the season. The gladiator flying mounts were badass looking at the time. They even had an inherent benefit with being the fastest mounts in the game, where the only alternative was Ashes of Al'ar (an extremely rare raid mount).

Sad that we went from prestige, commitment, and (mild) respect to the top teams that earned it (and proved they're probably better than you at PvP in the game) to outright appall that there's a collectable reward that is actually being treated as "limited" or "exclusive". Win trading is certainly a reason to hate on the idea, but that's on SE to monitor the rankings.

[KfLeX]

Does anyone know what the pet will look like? a wolf maybe? Not the one that's in game but more realistic wolf. kinda like the hunting hawk.

[Seraphyna]

You would have thought they would have learned from the non existant PVP lines at fan fest. No one wanted to do PVP. They were begging for players. Adding one time rewards to it is only going piss people off, case in point.

[Talraen]

Asking SE to reconsider content so you can satisfy your mental condition of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is just silly. You, and your obsessiveness with pointless, fluff content, is what hurts this game. If you like minions thats fine, but demanding developers alter content because of a mental problem you have is just ridiculous. What is the point in owning every minion anyways? What does it get you? They do nothing but follow you around. What has this world come to.

So if you don't care about content, that means anyone who does has a mental disorder?

That incredibly offensive comment aside, consider that SE adds minions to cash purchases as an incentive. They didn't give people a Rikku minion for buying their live stream because they just thought it would be fun. They've been openly catering to a certain crowd, and this goes directly against that. It seems perfectly reasonable for people to be upset.

[Welsper59]

So if you don't care about content, that means anyone who does has a mental disorder?

That incredibly offensive comment aside, consider that SE adds minions to cash purchases as an incentive. They didn't give people a Rikku minion for buying their live stream because they just thought it would be fun. They've been openly catering to a certain crowd, and this goes directly against that. It seems perfectly reasonable for people to be upset.

They've also done the same in the past about exclusivity in non-cash shop means. 1.0 rewards, for example, are not available to the grand majority of players now. This is not just referring to the mounts, but also to the CE and XI sub rewards too. The fact we could also keep 1.0 items/equips is part of that as well.

It is actually a question of mental disorder for some. Obsession and denial is very real with today's youth (and even adults). Most people are okay, and while the person you quoted is labeling a bit too broadly, I'd argue it is applicable to some in this game. The mere fact that people today can't accept the idea that exclusive rewards can exist within game content, is evidence enough that there is a borderline case of obsession coming into play (most likely not clinical levels though).

It's reasonable to be upset, especially since we get upset about the dumbest things in general both in games and IRL, but that doesn't excuse the ignorance or idiocy of the matter.

[Instrumentality]

There are people that never played season 1 and only barely played season 2 of the feast that made it into the top 30 or even top 10 (less than 200 games in a season).

Seriously not even trying because you think you can't do it is the worst kind of excuse.