RIP Minion Collectors :(

[TiaHariberux3]

I also don't think it's fair to compare the Feast rewards to other now-unobtainable rewards like Yokais or RL purchases - those weren't limited to small number of players per datacenter. As long as you were playing during the right time window, you were able to obtain them. The ranking system ensures most players won't get these items even if they're actively participating.

What about the gaelkitten cap that you only get for going to fanfest irl which isn't even in your country? Sure not a minion or mount but still a ingame item that I want and which is limited in some way.

[worldofneil]

OP here. Following on from the suggestions that I just need to work for them, well I haven't played Feast since it first came out, so I played 25 games last night. We won 3 of them (12%).

I tried my absolute best, but this is not where my skills lie. I'm sure that given time I will get better, but right now it's just resulting in a lot of other players being very upset and shouting abuse at me. I explained to a few that I was trying my best and I know I'm not very good at PvP, but if the only way I'm going to get that minion is to keep playing with the aim of getting better... what choice do I have? Not even sure where to start with the party queue either as none of the people I normally play with have any interest in PvP, but I'll come back to that.

I'm sure people will suggest that I shouldn't play PvP if I'm that bad, but then I was also suggested to play and "git gud" if I want the minion. So which is it? I don't mind being in it for the long game, but not sure I can handle the amount of annoyed players/abuse I'm getting in the process...

[Instrumentality]

I'm sure people will suggest that I shouldn't play PvP if I'm that bad, but then I was also suggested to play and "git gud" if I want the minion. So which is it? I don't mind being in it for the long game, but not sure I can handle the amount of annoyed players/abuse I'm getting in the process...

Start here: https://pvpaissa.com/

Read the "Season 3 Getting Started Guide", particularly the one written by King Stefan, but try to study all of them. Make sure your pvp skills are bound in easy to hit places. I could give you a lot of general tips but those guides will get you started.

Also for people raging, I've been called some pretty amusingly vile things before. Just laugh at them for being so mad at a video game and work on improving yourself.

[Canadane]

but not sure I can handle the amount of annoyed players/abuse I'm getting in the process...

Are you playing as a healer by chance?

[worldofneil]

Start here:

Thank you, I appreciate you taking the time to reply and will do so before I go back in!

Are you playing as a healer by chance?

Yes, WHM is by far my strongest class in the main game, unfortunately not working out so well here, but will try, try, try, try, try again!

[Beckett]

Makes you wonder what is ok to make a exclusive reward in PvP.

Honestly? Nothing. Not as a one-time-ever reward. If you could work towards the rewards by earning Wolf Marks or through an X number of Wins achievement, it would be fine. Even if the rewards were available for each season, at least you could have a chance at ever getting them.

It seems silly to me to waste dev time on something that only 10 people per data center will ever have. For event items, if you're there for the event and put in the effort, you can get all the rewards. Even for Forum Contests, with their exclusive prizes, if you enter enough of them you can eventually get all of them. Feast rewards are the only things in the game that you can put your heart and soul into earning and never get them.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

I am not really a collector.

But reading about this just rubs me the wrong way.



You have my condolences.

[Yukiko]

What's the point of a collection if nothing is rare in it...?
That's why you have limited editions in real life...

You arnt a collector, sorry but rarity is only for "sellers"
Collectors aim to get a full set, to make it whole again...
If you cant complete the set, you can as good as throw all away!

[Greedalox]

I'm a tad bit confused. People don't like collectables on the mogstation, nor the exclusivity of hardwork in game? A collector doesn't need to have everything to have a collection. There's some very cool things that are out of my reach in this game, but it's more of a put up or shut up situation instead of RIP.

If you cant complete the set, you can as good as throw all away!

lol.

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

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.

I wanted to address this directly. I'm an avid PvP player of this game. I fell in love with it despite all the imperfections and lack of popularity. I play it for the love of battle and recently started making videos of my best plays for the fun of it. Rewards are nice, but they're not the reason I enjoy PvP. I was even irritated when SE made the ADS mount I repeatedly asked for into a PvP reward, but it didn't make or break PvP for me.

I'm shooting down your statement directly. PvP happens, and there's a small but dedicated number of players enjoying it, with more curious but hesitant to approach it, and statements like yours are discouraging and unhelpful. I understand incentive might be nice to attract new people, and I will agree only with the fact that one time rewards aren't a good thing to motivate with, but some of us who PvP and enjoy it don't need the incentives. It's simply one of the things we love about the game.

That said, and with all due respect, if only now you want to PvP, just for some mount or a minion, please just save yourself the time and trouble. I mean, if you want it bad enough to fight and improve and rise up as an FFXIV PvPer, sure, go ahead. But if it's purely for the shiny new toy, then you'll wash your hands of it and never bother again, there are many of us that will practically guarantee you won't get it.

And I don't even know what it is or want it.