Quote Originally Posted by ThirdChild_ZKI View Post
Now you have this award-over-time system that people asked for in S3 and 4. Not entirely a terrible idea, despite the risk of declining motivation per season (again, "why work so hard to do it now when I can just get it later through minimal effort?"), but people are asking for rewards that were hard earned to be purchasable. Seriously, how wrong does that sound?

If SE caves on this and allows that, you can pretty much consider the Feast - if not PvP entirely - dead to the actual community that once enjoyed it. . .

. . .Then who's next?
I can respect that.


But the "why work now when I can do it later with less effort" applies to everything in this game. Raids, crafting, leveling up different classes. Not saying it's right or wrong, but look at it from the other side (playing devil's advocate here) -- why should PVP be exclusive? Do you work harder to rank than raiders or crafters or people who level up all their classes? Is your work somehow better or harder than theirs?


Now, as a disclaimer - I *know* Feast ranking is hard. For those who do it fairly and without the help of third party tools, it's truly fighting tooth and claw to get to the top. And I have always maintained that the top-ranked should have something worthy (whatever happened to the trophies and crowns?) But when you take a mount that so many people have asked for and throw it into a seasonal and exclusive thing, it's kind of like trying to entice the majority to join a broken, skewed system by way of a carrot. Except to get that carrot, your arms and legs are bound and you have to swim through a murky, piranha infested pool.

I've stood by the statement that I want to earn that mount. And if PVP is the only way I can do it, so be it. If it takes months or years, so be it. But this game is not my life. I, and many other players, need to work toward things on our own time at our own pace. Job and life responsibilities come first. Making something -- anything -- exclusive and seasonal basically says to the players "nolife grind your way toward this reward to the exclusion of everything else"

What's fun about that?