Likewise, this thread isn't directed at you personally, but to anyone who tries to paint me in a certain and very wrong light, I'm going to clarify it right now.

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It's not directed at you because you deem yourself a "collector" and don't care about anything other that being able to acquire everything in the game.

This reply is just to undo any misinformation you cause, so that others reading this thread can not be swayed wrongfully.
Wow. Talk about misinformation! I'm the farthest thing from a collector. I have a grand total of....*checks minion website* 154 of 292 minions or just slightly over half. Yep. Some collector I am. You, Nirokun, have more minions than I do.

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I cannot participate in the Olympics, win a gold medal, and ask for it to say another year.
You guys keep comparing this to the Olympics. It is a video game. Winning in Feast is no more like the Olympics than winning the child's game Operation makes you a brain surgeon.

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Losing resulting in toxicity is a personality issue. Because *some people* have poor sportsmanship doesn't mean you dismantle the competitive model and give the prizes away, that doesn't make sense.
I don't want to dismantle Feast. I don't want to give the prizes away. I want to encourage more people to play it (something it desperately needs) by making rewards more attainable. Like what was suggested at the beginning of this thread, I'd like old rewards purchasable with wolf collars in time. Not marks, collars, and a decent amount of them too. That way, you have to actually PLAY the mode to get the reward. And just like with Primal mounts and Savage modes, the ones who scored in the top 100 or otherwise beat the mode first get their rewards first. I have no problem with that at all.

Opening up Feast rewards to more of the playerbase won't suddenly nullify your achievement. The devs did this with the minions (because the JP playerbase was upset about it), and guess what! A grand total of 3.5% of players have the Hellhound minion. Some people won't touch Feast with a 10-foot pole no matter WHAT you put in there. I agree, those people shouldn't get the reward from that mode. Hell, even with Rival Wings, which was speedhacked-to-death practically upon its inception, requires an infusion of participation from the playerbase on specific days because no one plays it. . I don't want to see that happen to Feast.

I wish they would deal with the problem directly. I enjoy Feast and I have played every season since Season 3 (to varying degrees because of real-life things). But it is rife with problems and as these problems continue and escalate, fewer and fewer people participate. Feast needs a resuscitation and it shouldn't be left up to the playerbase to carry it's barely-clinging-to-life corpse through the streets and tell people how great it is.