PvP Rewards New and Old - Why repeat past mistakes?

[Colt47]

Limited items makes them unique. I have no problem with the concept.

Oh okay, lets just repeat what happened with hellhound armor... again.

Like, I think maybe less than 1% of the playerbase ever saw that armor, and the guys who probably got the armor don't even wear it or play the game anymore. Or maybe they do and just don't care about the hellhound armor.

I did not even remember that this armor exists until the new benchmark put it in the armor selection when doing the cutscenes.

And then we had the Garo event that was also a time limited offering. There were people who basically heard the event was ending and farmed the heck out of the armor, but anyone who came in later during Shadowbringers missed the entire Garo event and can never get the armor, mounts, or weapons (I think there were weapons?).

There are games where limited time rewards work out (Path of Exile does a lot of them), but the difference is that PoA has a hardcore mode and people build throw-away characters all the time. No one expects to keep the seasonal rewards for longer than a season, and everyone is chasing after the next season reward on a new character in the new tiers rather than enjoying the items. Final Fantasy XIV the effort on new armor models and the way players play the game makes throw-away armor models impractical.

[Ath192]

Oh okay, lets just repeat what happened with hellhound armor... again.

Like, I think maybe less than 1% of the playerbase ever saw that armor, and the guys who probably got the armor don't even wear it or play the game anymore. Or maybe they do and just don't care about the hellhound armor.

Yes, let’s talk about the hellhound armor. That was a really cool set. I didn’t get it, in fact most people didn’t. So I missed out on it. The other day I saw on someone and you know what I thought?

I thought, oh wow that looks sick as hell I better do PvP next time that is such a cool looking armor piece. And I went on about my day and had a great time.

You know what I didn’t think?

OMG I can’t believe the developers made something so hard to get and now no one can get it anymore. My life is over. I hate everyone and everything… I AM A PAYING CUSTOMER GIVE ME EVERYTHING RIGHT NOW.

1. There should be content that is easy to get and everyone can have it.
2. There should be content that requires skill and high end play to acquire it
4. There should be content that is transient and can then be bought at the store
5. There should be some content so rare and exclusive that should be belong to people who were there at the right time, and the right place.

It all adds to the hype. And I don’t think it’s bad design unless they keep the best performing pieces (stat wise) behind a paywall.