[DEV REQUEST] Please make the Hellhound Obtainable By More than Just the Top 100 PVP

[Zojha]

You call them timed exclusives, I call them prizes

Some people call it "Theft", others call it "Privatization of Wealth Redistribution". Sounds much nicer, means the same thing.

[NargaHuntress]

mmm reminded me of fold titles. 5k games or wins just for a title. now idk about yal but that there, that right there, thats dedication my friend. pretty sure by time you get like 2k games in you kinda earned something. (no not more frikken tittles)

[Stormfur]

The good thing about the War horse and ADS mount is that once SE (finally) removes GC restrictions, people can attain those once again because folks will likely PVP together much more easily. It opens up the whole PVP world and makes it much more fun.

I can see why people give up in the Feast. I was sitting at Silver, over halfway to Gold, when I'm not joking, my team and I lost something like 20 matches in a row. Now I'm back down to bronze and working on my promotion qualifiers again.

Can I just say, for the record, how much I hate promotional qualifiers?

For those who don't know how it works, once you have enough points to get into the next tier, you go through five promotional qualifiers. You must win 3/5 or else you have to start over. It wouldn't seem that difficult at first, but it's absolutely maddening, and once people slog through it and get to gold, they don't want to risk anything in the PVP arena to potentially get knocked to the previous tier (where they have to go through qualifiers AGAIN once they reach the tier).

That is not fun. Not in the slightest. It's throw-controller-at-screen frustrating.

Dangling a much-wanted mount in our faces when this kind of nonsense holds players back is just like asking us to climb a mountain but pulling us back down for every step we take.

[TiaHariberux3]

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how can you lose silver in season 3 if u lose 20matches in a row you should trying to improve. In previous seasons gold was what platinum is rn its easy af to get to atleast platinum/diamond.

[Kai_Lee]

If you are on a loosing streak, best to not continue bashing your head in by continuously queuing for feast games. Sometimes you need to accept a negative point lost for the day and start over tomorrow or wait an hour or two to try to get more favourable teams.

[Lambdafish]

Some people call it "Theft", others call it "Privatization of Wealth Redistribution". Sounds much nicer, means the same thing.

Except prizes are framed from the point of view of "something the winner gets" and timed exclusive is framed from the point of view of "something I don't get", it's not that it sounds nicer, it's that it sounds far less entitled.

[Stormfur]

Oh man how can you lose silver in season 3 lol if u lose 20matches in a row you should trying to improve. In previous seasons gold was what platinum is rn its easy af to get to atleast platinum/diamond.

Oh I am always trying to improve. It's just that in those cases, the other team was superior. There wasn't one specific instance of "Well our tank (me) did X, or our healer did Y and we lost." Just a combination of things really. A really bad streak of luck, or maybe RNG had a voodoo doll and was poking at it that night, I don't know. It's like failing 6 hasty touches in a row when crafting - even with steady hand II (I've done that too!). And that point you just look at the game and go "Are you serious right now?!"

I should say that the 20 matches weren't like back to back in the span of a few hours. It was some in the morning, some the next day, etc. I don't have the patience and fortitude to do that non-stop.

Last night I was queued for over an hour during Primal's prime time (as tank), but couldn't get a match because the only people on were in the Gold tier, and I was Bronze. I know they match you by how close your score is to others, but ... ouch.

[BARDS_ARROW]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...Void-Ark-Mount


I'll just put that there.

There's plenty of options that SE could us to integrate the hell hound mount. I'm just trying to wrap my mind around the idea of it being locked behind PVP. Especially in a timed season. If SE really want to release it via PVP, it would be better (all around) to release it as a "win X amounts of games" like the ADS mount etc.

[Stormfur]

Hi Bards,

That token system is a GREAT idea! Even if it were solely for PVP, having a token system would let people get any kind of reward, with more tokens going toward the top 100. I hope the developers/community managers reading this thread get your suggestion.

[Alleo]

@TiaHariberux3:

You said that the top 100 should have something special or PVP players generally should get nice rewards. And I pointed out that you have them. You have 6 mounts that are still quite rare. Yes if you look at the whole amount of PVE mounts than this is way less but thats just normals since PVP is only a niche activity. Thats why I also compared the amount to another niche activity, the raids. And they have only one unique mount if I remember it right. (Even though some PVP mounts make great sense to be in Coil)

In the end PVPers should be treated like all the other more niche activities in the game. (And I dont mean niche as something bad) Lets have some nice rewards that are achievable by everyone. Because if its okay that you get those limited exclusive rewards than SE should really start to be nice to raiders and other parts of the game too. No more mounts that people get unsynch later down the line, let them stay exclusive rewards for the top raiders. At least then it would be fair.

And having a special icon next to your name is not something cool? A title only a certain amount of people have? I mean you would still have a really rare and cool looking mount, nobody wants to take it away from PVP content.