Quote Originally Posted by Just-Communication View Post
If you spent more time applying yourself you wouldn't be on this thread making stupid, baseless arguments for exclusive rewards just so you can pony around feeling holier than thou. Sense of awe? Inspire people to try harder? That's a load of BS and you know it.
Not sure what you mean, I think I apply myself when I feel like it--I placed in the Top 100 in Feast 3 times in Feast (whenever I thought the reward was nice).

As far as sense of awe, I don't know about you, but I've been playing MMOs for 15? years now and seeing skilled players all decked out in cool stuff is inspiring. For me, it gives me something to look forward to, something to strive for, even if whatever they have is not suited for me nor something I specifically want. I can appreciate the effort and dedication they had to get where they are.

Quote Originally Posted by Disc_Hunter View Post
It wouldn't mean anything other than that you were around for it. Someone better than you possibly wouldn't have access to the reward, making it worthless for anyone who's actually good.
Depends. For a seasonal event where the quest reward doesn't come back, you're right. But for anything else, where you have to work for it, much less fight amongst yourselves to prove you're better than the next, you're wrong. Any competition (I fully support PVE "World Race" timed-exclusive rewards) is limited by time. Anyone can try afterwards, but part of the competition is being there, at that time, in that competition, against those competitors, with the same amount of info (literally, no info except what you glean yourself) as everyone else.

Imagine if the the World First for any particular raid was won upon release. Then imagine some raid group coming afterwards, using the strategy developed by the initial raiders, but with overwhelming gear and job levels to kill the boss faster. They can't just usurp World First after the fact. That's unthinkable, but that's the argument you're using.

Quote Originally Posted by Shinklet View Post
This is an mmorpg, scarcity, exclusivity and rarity are integral to the genre. If you don't earn it while it is relevant, why do you think you deserve it later when it's easier to get? That undermines everything better, harder working players have done.

And for what? So you get get another cutesy uwu outfit you probably don't care about.
You get it. You're the best. <3