Where did the Series 1 Malmstones rewards vanish to?

[ConcernedPerson]

It's really bad wording on their part and I expect quite a few people have missed out on the rewards because they didn't realise they were retiring. From what I've seen ingame today:

1. You only see the "Past Series" button if you have unclaimed rewards - I had 5 of the infinite Trophy Crystal rewards waiting to be picked up, so I could see it. Once I claimed them, the button no longer appears.

2. You can pick up rewards from Series 1 in Series 2, if, and only if, you'd earned but not claimed them when Series 1 was active. There's no way to earn them any more - PvP exp goes towards the Series 2 reward track, so there's no way to earn points for the Series 1 rewards.

3. They're not available from any PvP vendors at present.

The messaging on this was terrible because their wording made it sound like the rewards weren't going anywhere, when in fact the ability to earn them was disappearing completely. If anyone has found something I missed, do point it out.

My guess is they might add these to Trophy Crystal vendors at some point in the future (or, heaven forbid, cash shop). The ability to earn them by playing PvP is gone, though, by the looks of things.

I am feeling really frustrated right now. I imagine there are going to be a lot of furious players about this extremely poorly communicated situation. I guess I'm lucky that I was nearly done -- and honestly, I thought I had more I needed to trade in, but maybe I'm misremembering, based on your experience. But man does it feel like b.s. overall. I didn't rush it because they specifically said we had until the end of season 2 to claim them. Instead I was out there blue farming for the moogle event and doing FC events. Pain. What's the point of the live letter if it doesn't prepare you appropriately? grumble, grumble... angry lalafell faces...

[HermitUK]

I am feeling really betrayed by Yoshi P right now. I imagine there are going to be a lot of furious players about this extremely poorly communicated situation. I guess I'm lucky that I was nearly done -- and honestly, I thought I had more I needed to trade in, but maybe I'm misremembering, based on your experience. But man does it feel like b.s. overall. I didn't rush it because they specifically said we had until the end of season 2 to claim them. Instead I was out there blue farming for the moogle event and doing FC events. Pain. What's the point of the live letter if it doesn't prepare you appropriately? grumble, grumble... angry lalafell faces...

Just to further add to the confusion, when they announced Series stuff prior to 6.1, they said previous rewards would eventually be purchasable (see https://twinfinite.net/wp-content/up...asy-XIV-43.jpg). But they've not mentioned this once since, so no idea if they mean 6.25, or 6.3, or next expansion, or what.

[Roegadoom]

Yeah, I wonder how much the word "eventually" (or "後々" in the original, meaning "distant future") is carrying the weight of that sentence. But had I seen that before, I wouldn't have expected them to be on a vendor already. I feel more misled by other players than the devs, but a bit disgruntled about it either way. In so many ways, the game doesn't require you to constantly keep up, with all the various catch-up mechanics, but there are some things where you miss out on, possibly forever, if you don't do them while they're hot. It's hard to tell sometimes which is which in advance.

I took a break from the game, came back, and ground out series XP as fast as I could without killing myself, and it still was only enough to hit series level 20. So I'm a bit miffed to miss out on the Archfiend Attire, and a bit annoyed that I'm going to need to commit even more time on a regular basis to PvP going forward if I don't want to miss other things as well. There are so many things to do in the game that it's hard to keep up on them all!

[ConcernedPerson]

Just to further add to the confusion, when they announced Series stuff prior to 6.1, they said previous rewards would eventually be purchasable (see https://twinfinite.net/wp-content/up...asy-XIV-43.jpg). But they've not mentioned this once since, so no idea if they mean 6.25, or 6.3, or next expansion, or what.

So, as an update...
I logged on to my alt and checked the PVP menu there. In that case, the button for "previous series" did show up. I used it, and it brought me back to the first series track and let me claim my rewards up through the emote and no further. When I left the interface and checked back in, the button was gone. (This explains, by the way, why I felt so certain that I had 5k-6k to trade in still. I did, but it was on my alt and not my main, so at least I know I'm not losing my mind just yet.)

So, either there is a bug that's making the previous series button vanish, or, more likely as you're saying, this is by design, and they very, very poorly communicated this to their players, which I still think is pretty messed up. Just be honest. It can all be said in one sentence: "When series 1 ends, you won't be able to get the rewards anymore, so hurry up and finish before patch 6.2." Bam. That's literally all they needed to say.

I don't understand why they hid this from players. I really don't. It makes me worried about the garo event. Like, when 6.25 drops, is it just going to vanish all of a sudden with no warning? Lame. I just feel like as a general principle, you should be honest, clear, and direct with your players about which content is coming or going and when. It's a pretty basic courtesy. They usually are good about that, so that makes it even more surprising, honestly. I hope it doesn't become a new trend.

I did the math and if you do 2 runs per day of CC in this new season (on one character), then within a maximum of 60 days you will earn enough series rewards to get all of the track done up to the new mount. This will ensure you finish the track before 6.25 lands, just in case. So that's what I'll do on my main & alt. I'm not going to trust that rewards these will be available later on. I'll just assume they'll vanish in any given patch moving forward.

[EaMett]

Just to further add to the confusion, when they announced Series stuff prior to 6.1, they said previous rewards would eventually be purchasable (see https://twinfinite.net/wp-content/up...asy-XIV-43.jpg). But they've not mentioned this once since, so no idea if they mean 6.25, or 6.3, or next expansion, or what.

Eventually available sounds like they'll add them back into the game in a year or something. Like they do with the mogstation event glams, except these will be purchasable with in-game pvp currencies. Makes me feel a little better. I was also about to get my panties in a bunch over these items no longer being available when they specifically sold it as a FOMO free mechanic