Make Augmented Hellhound obtainable through Trophy Crystals

[Astralrisk]

The particle effects overwhelm a lot of the weapons, It doesn't look good on any of them, I personally don't even like how the majority of the non particle effect weapons look. It's not an award worthy of people who farmed out some of the highest ranks CC has to offer, especially when you can just spend crystals to get the non particle effect versions.

Imagine Ultimate weapons being released with a variant thats almost identical, just without particle/lighting effects. Hardly motivation to make you want to grind for the "enhanced" version.

The glows being bad feels very intentional on the devs part. Wanting to give rewards to players who get to the higher difficulty but not make people feel bad for not being able to get the glows easily (even though that's the exact treatment people get with savage/ultimate rewards). To give credit though I think the glows on the weapons looks better than most since from what I've seen the glows are actually modeled around the weapon and aren't like Ultimate weapons where they look horrible to look at.

[Sililos]

Can we please not? Can Ranked keep at least one single unique thing tied to it that isn't carbon copy portrait borders seven seasons in a row?

Bots, wintraders and cheaters shouldn't be rewarded, and on OCE they are the only ones consistently in the top 100 and i bet they make up the majority of them on other datacenters too.

Unique rewards should never be locked behind this kind of system, Seems really counter productive to spend all those dev resources on items only 100 per datacenter will ever see and it will always be the same people every season getting them, why is their sub money worth more than anyone elses hmm?
It certainly shouldn't be because they know how to cheat and exploit a more often than not dead system. (After a few weeks to a few months nobody plays Ranked and nobody can climb, and during the active time it requires luck over skill if you get a group who fights one person on the other side of the map while the rest of the enemy team cap crystal, or if you get people who actually A: Know what their doing, B: Care enough to make any effort.)

Unique rewards should never be locked behind ranking. "But if there's no rewards then nobody will play." Yes they will, there's always those who care about being able to say they are at the top, and if nobody plays? Well then, that means there is a problem with the content and its not the lack of a reward.

[ThaCa]

Bots etc. are moderation issue and the fault falls on inefficient reaction from SQEX.

Thankfully these problems don't really plague Light.

[kayll]

Bots, wintraders and cheaters shouldn't be rewarded, and on OCE they are the only ones consistently in the top 100 and i bet they make up the majority of them on other datacenters too.

Unique rewards should never be locked behind this kind of system, Seems really counter productive to spend all those dev resources on items only 100 per datacenter will ever see and it will always be the same people every season getting them, why is their sub money worth more than anyone elses hmm?
It certainly shouldn't be because they know how to cheat and exploit a more often than not dead system. (After a few weeks to a few months nobody plays Ranked and nobody can climb, and during the active time it requires luck over skill if you get a group who fights one person on the other side of the map while the rest of the enemy team cap crystal, or if you get people who actually A: Know what their doing, B: Care enough to make any effort.)

Unique rewards should never be locked behind ranking. "But if there's no rewards then nobody will play." Yes they will, there's always those who care about being able to say they are at the top, and if nobody plays? Well then, that means there is a problem with the content and its not the lack of a reward.

Bots,wintraders and cheaters that you think plague the queues should be dealt with in game moderation, not removing rewards for those dedicated, stop enabling Square to do even less with their game.
You don't even need top 100 to get the shiny new stuff, You don't even need crystal if you are patient.
Now that players don't need top 100 for the stuff, people want the bar even lower making it obtainable by AFKing in a daily frontline match. Absurd.
God forbid an MMO have any kind of aspirational content or unique rewards for people who actually put the effort in and actually enjoy playing the game.
If you don't think the rewards are worth the effort you don't have to put the effort in but that doesn't mean you should be given the stuff just for logging in.

[Towa-Musa]

Bots,wintraders and cheaters that you think plague the queues should be dealt with in game moderation, not removing rewards for those dedicated, stop enabling Square to do even less with their game.
You don't even need top 100 to get the shiny new stuff, You don't even need crystal if you are patient.
Now that players don't need top 100 for the stuff, people want the bar even lower making it obtainable by AFKing in a daily frontline match. Absurd.
God forbid an MMO have any kind of aspirational content or unique rewards for people who actually put the effort in and actually enjoy playing the game.
If you don't think the rewards are worth the effort you don't have to put the effort in but that doesn't mean you should be given the stuff just for logging in.

I say don't remove them from ranked but make it available to the crystal shop for like 20k crystals per item, if something is not 100% locked behind a mode the majority hates, people will feel less inclined to cheat and will instead just grind the crystals out.

[Towa-Musa]

The glows being bad feels very intentional on the devs part. Wanting to give rewards to players who get to the higher difficulty but not make people feel bad for not being able to get the glows easily (even though that's the exact treatment people get with savage/ultimate rewards). To give credit though I think the glows on the weapons looks better than most since from what I've seen the glows are actually modeled around the weapon and aren't like Ultimate weapons where they look horrible to look at.

less is always more when it comes to weapon glows for me.

[Towa-Musa]

Bots, wintraders and cheaters shouldn't be rewarded, and on OCE they are the only ones consistently in the top 100 and i bet they make up the majority of them on other datacenters too.

Unique rewards should never be locked behind this kind of system, Seems really counter productive to spend all those dev resources on items only 100 per datacenter will ever see and it will always be the same people every season getting them, why is their sub money worth more than anyone elses hmm?
It certainly shouldn't be because they know how to cheat and exploit a more often than not dead system. (After a few weeks to a few months nobody plays Ranked and nobody can climb, and during the active time it requires luck over skill if you get a group who fights one person on the other side of the map while the rest of the enemy team cap crystal, or if you get people who actually A: Know what their doing, B: Care enough to make any effort.)

Unique rewards should never be locked behind ranking. "But if there's no rewards then nobody will play." Yes they will, there's always those who care about being able to say they are at the top, and if nobody plays? Well then, that means there is a problem with the content and its not the lack of a reward.

The fact that people feel the need to cheat implies theres a flaw somewhere in the system lol
(no shit sherlock i hear you say)

However i think a easy fix for this would be to make playing ranked a fast track to getting the commendation crystals and just making it a grind for people who don't wanna slog through ranked
20k trophy crystals per commendation crystal would be a easy fix for this. side note i know some of you would hiss at the mere idea of this but don't we already have something like this in place for those who don't wanna do savage raids <.<
works just fine don't it?

[kayll]

I say don't remove them from ranked but make it available to the crystal shop for like 20k crystals per item, if something is not 100% locked behind a mode the majority hates, people will feel less inclined to cheat and will instead just grind the crystals out.

You are still putting the blame on the players and suggesting a band-aid fix for the supposed problems of cheaters running rampant in the system.
Also find it interesting that so many players can detect these elusive cheaters and post about it on the forums and some how Square cannot with their own game.
And yet these same players are also unable to even reach diamond/crystal yet are so SO certain that cheaters are in every ranked CC match.

I'm sure if Square did implement an anti-cheat, the goal post would just be moved again, just like the complaints about "why does top 100 get unique stuff" has now moved to "why does ranked get any unique stuff".

[Towa-Musa]

You are still putting the blame on the players and suggesting a band-aid fix for the supposed problems of cheaters running rampant in the system.
Also find it interesting that so many players can detect these elusive cheaters and post about it on the forums and some how Square cannot with their own game.
And yet these same players are also unable to even reach diamond/crystal yet are so SO certain that cheaters are in every ranked CC match.

I'm sure if Square did implement an anti-cheat, the goal post would just be moved again, just like the complaints about "why does top 100 get unique stuff" has now moved to "why does ranked get any unique stuff".

if you cheat in any fashion at the end of the day you are still a cheater no? not to mention if moderation was better at their job there would be less of a problem, people report cheaters all the time its just nothing is done about it and untill they fix their moderation issue my suggestion is a good enough stop gap so everybody can get what they want and get out without frothing at the mouth because a ranked mode is poorly moderated.

[doomballoon]

As someone who has hit plat several times, I'm going to take a firm stance.
If a player cheats, then they are a cheater.