No new Trophy Crystal rewards for Series 2?

[Parthmakeo]

I believe they said in the live letter introducing the new PVP system that they wanted to give the trophy rewards about 2 series before adding new ones since they are thinking of people who just do a casual match or three a day or even a week vs the guy who is already level 30 and maxed out two 20k EXP bars at Crystal level having bought everything on the vendor and then some.

but we will see if more is added when Series 3 comes about next patch.

[PaniniPani]

I believe they said in the live letter introducing the new PVP system that they wanted to give the trophy rewards about 2 series before adding new ones since they are thinking of people who just do a casual match or three a day or even a week vs the guy who is already level 30 and maxed out two 20k EXP bars at Crystal level having bought everything on the vendor and then some.

but we will see if more is added when Series 3 comes about next patch.

This seems like such a cop-out answer. Waiting 8 months between rewards is pretty ridiculous if you want to keep an active CC player base. Without incentive to play, people are going to finish the battlepass and then abandon the game mode.
I don't understand why this would be the case, either. Catering to the people who don't play the game mode vs. the people that do seems like completely backwards logic.
There's also no reason to get rid of the Trophy Crystal rewards between seasons. If they mean to timegate them, then that just punishes the casual player base even more. 8 months or not, there will be people who miss out on the rewards if they're timegated in any fashion.
It all just sounds like a convenient excuse to ignore PvP for another 4 months (or who knows, maybe even longer).

At this point I'm just venting, but it's because I'm really disappointed with the XIV team on this one. I really fell in love with CC, but without a real incentive to keep playing, it just doesn't feel worth my time as much as it did before.

[Parthmakeo]

Considering they already effectively killed off any true reward for doing ranked at all (Seriously all they're going to do is keep the same adventure plate but change the roman numeral) and placed what would of been for top players be a matter of EXP grind to rank 25 (the mount) for this season, it can be a cop out answer. I got to platinum on season 1 and noticed season 2 reward was the same as was season 3 and mostly left it alone because...well what's the point if there is no drastic new reward right? The titles are nice...but they also won't change, just the achievement name for obtaining them on a certain season.

They went out of their way to do whatever it took to eliminate Win trading and how the Feast style of PVP circle was enclosed off to people who wanted said armor/weapons. They did but the consequence as you see is that there's a lot of downtime. I'm waiting for what they plan to add during Series 3 to fully understand how they plan to handle PVP for the future because as it stands I'm only doing it for Series reward. I do hope however they add the series rewards of past ones to the vendors as they promised but so far i have not seen the book for sale on the vendor for the determined emote. Hence me waiting for series 3 for the entire judgement.

CC is fun. CC is enjoyable...but there's literally no reason to do Ranked when casual gives same rate of Series EXP/Wolf Marks. They just need to give better reasons to do ranked without gatekeeping a majority which is nigh impossible with PVP since PVP will always require a skillset majority of players do not have compared to PVE stuff. Speaking from the angle of a majority, most of my friends casually play the PVP mode and still managed to at the very least get enough trophies to buy the cosmetics they want at a slower rate than I could even and i'm glad that system exists. It just sucks for people who actually adore PVP in 14 and managed to get series rank 30 in under a week with two characters and having them somehow at Crystal Rank for each.

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

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Finally someone who gets it, thank you.

[TimotheusReed]

I have to agree with some of the sentiments here. I never played PVP during Feast, but CC got me into PVP and I really enjoy playing CC.

I was already a bit bummed out that Season 2 didn't have any new stuff, but I was okay with it, because I had hoped there would be something new in Series 2 (Season 3).

I already saw in the patch notes that we will get a mount this time in the BP, which I personally wasn't that thrilled about. I would have like another armor set, but I didn't mind so much. But I got a bit sceptical after I saw nothing about any new trophy crystal rewards in the patch notes.

Then I went ingame and saw that there were no new trophy crystal rewards AT ALL, even though it is a new Season, which demotivated me a lot.

The first two Seasons I was playing pretty hard, because I kinda thought CC would be a mode which will get constantly supported in the future. But because of how they handled Series 2 I kinda lost a bit of hope and I also fear that they already started to abandon this mode. Which would be really sad, because I do still enjoy it. But even I will loose motivation if they don't add new stuff once in a while.