Quote Originally Posted by Picothea View Post
Reading all this, I have to ask: Why does it matter so much to you that these items are time-sensitive and exclusive? Just to be clear, I haven't seen any person here say "we need ways to get them without winning" - it has been suggested, but not demanded. The main issue people take with this is the time-sensitive nature. If you could still earn these items, even if you have to reach victories to do so, there would be no problem here. Please argue in good faith.

Edit: Furthermore, ultimate raids and other high-end PvE content do not have limited rankings. It's not the first 100 clears who get ultimate weapons. It's anyone, anytime, no matter how old the ultimate raid is. Again, please argue in good faith.
Because the time to fix it, has passed. You have a wildly different PvP game now. It is simply not comparable anymore. It has experienced massive casualization. Like I said..

Quote Originally Posted by Commander_Justitia View Post
the players knew it sucked getting place 101+ and not getting anything to show for it, not even a low tier reskin of a mount or skin, or any currency to exchange something with (it took them to add wolf collars, and now they are kinda worthless too). And we begged SE to finally do something about it, and they haven't done it for years, for over 20 seasons. And that dissatisfaction with the reward style, you want to take out on the PvP players who played at the time now. Nah, f that.
I think it is good to have a game where some items are rare. This game has almost no rare items. Everything is obtainable fairly easy. To have a few rare items that only a few players can get, shouldn't be such an issue. But if you only played this game, and only experienced getting every item and reward as handout, if you only experienced, that you cannot lose, and that even if you lose, you get items like in PvP modes today - then sure "you" come to the conclusion that "you" should have every item in the game somehow. I think ranked PvP players got for their effort not really much to show for. We are talking over almost a decade and we have like 5 unique armor sets and 5 unique mounts total? With 2-3 reskins at least. Even the Gold Saucer got more item updates than ranked PvP.
And regarding ultimate weapons, if you want it to be fair, PvP got easier for a newbie, then you would need Ultimate to be easier for a newbie too. Make me an Ultimate where you only have 6 buttons to press and even if you wipe 50 times, you slowly get your item. That would be "fair". LOL.