Top 100 Rewards and acocunt policy.

[Trucknbolts]

I'm a long time player, since 1.0 that recently ran into issues with pvp top 100 rewards I had earned 10+ years ago during the Season 2 of the Wolves Den. I was able to place in the top 100 and received an armor set reward on a character that I now no longer play on.

In an attempt to have this reward moved over to my main, I was told by the GM team that the top 100 rewards fall under the same policy as seasonal and cash shop items, meaning that it can only ever belong to that one single character ever and they were unable to help. I found this incredibly frustrating to say the least. Why would it be like this? Why didn't they account for this in any way to make these rewards account wide? I wouldn't be upset about it if these items were somehow acquirable through in-game means, but as it stands these rewards are completely impossible to get ever again, and their response to this request is to spend $10 on a world transfer, start the MSQ over again, forget all of your achievements and items just to play on the one character that has access to the armor.

Has anyone else with top 100 rewards experienced this before? Did any of you have any luck with the GMs being anything but dismissive of your request and tell you to go make a forum post if you want to see the policy change? I know this is a completely fruitless endeavor, as complaints about the current seasonal / cash shop policies about account wide items have been complained about for as long as I've been playing.

[Burmecia]

Being able to buy replicas of these would be really neat, wouldn't it.

[Canadane]

Why can you no longer play your original character?
Like if this is a situation where you were previously banned from play, I don't think getting your limited items back is really on the table.

[Trucknbolts]

My original character is located on Elemental, a JP datacenter. Long story short, I used to play with friends that lived in Australia and Japan when I was younger and could afford to stay up all night to play with them. Over time I started having less time to play later at night, so I eventually made an NA character to play during the hours I could, since most of them on the other side of the world would be going to sleep by the time I was available. Eventually friends go their own ways, people stop playing, and I gradually started exclusively playing on my new NA character, leaving my Elemental character behind just to stop in and see how friends are doing from time to time.

Its been years since then, 7 or 8 , possibly more. I've never really made a stink about it but it did irk me from time to time. I figured something would eventually be done to make these kinds of items account-wide, but after all these years nothing has been done about it. I've offered to delete the exclusive items from my original character as to not appear that I'm double dipping on the exclusive armor set, but the GMs say they have no ability to do anything about it, which I think is pretty blatantly a lie, considering a GM was the one that had sent me the armor set in the first place via mogmail all those years ago.

Currently, the only solution that was offered by the GM was to spend $10 on a world transfer, abandon my main character that I've been playing on for years with all of my mounts, achievements, savage and ultimate history, and even redo my entire friends list just to get access to this armor set again. It's so incredibly obtuse and backwards. I was told to start kicking and screaming on the forums to 'bring attention' to the issue, and hope that others come out with similar experiences, which is insanely unlikely considering only a couple hundred of these sets exist in the game, and even fewer than that are actually still playing the game. I just want to use the armor set.

[Trucknbolts]

I'd like to add to this, because I find this policy stuff too frustrating to think about. While unrelated to the PvP rewards, why is the development team so wishy-washy on what can and cannot be account wide?

Just as an example, my 1.0 character has access to a unique Goobue mount and the Legacy Chocobo, which are both exclusive items that were obtainable in version 1.0, but for some reason all new characters on my account receive ONLY the Chocobo but not the Goobue.
These same issues extend to the real money cash shop as well, where the dev. team decides to randomly make some items account wide, and others exclusive to the character.
For example, the Fat Cat mount is a one time purchase and is sent to every single new character you create, but other items do not. Why are these actions to new items so inconsistent and why do these policies exist if the developers seemingly act on a whim as to what belongs to this policy and what does not with no logic behind it whatsoever? It all just adds to my frustration with this armor set, because the developers clearly have an answer to it, and it's not some expensive new system that they'd need to invest in because it already exists in the game.

I really would like people to at least understand where this complaint is coming from,even if they cannot relate to my frustrations over this stupid armor. I just think this issue extends much further in the game's systems and want to make it clear that I'm not ranting about this because I'm selfishly looking to show off some armor set everyone has forgotten about, and I hope that some people will rally behind this so something can at least be proposed to the development team, because I feel it's outright disrespectful to everyone, old and new to the game.

[Haibhailie]

Your post really nails the inconsistency: our Legacy chocobos auto-unlock for every new alt, yet the Wolves’ Den Season 2 Top-100 armor—earned with far more sweat and far fewer copies—remains locked to a single character.

I’m fully behind making every Top-100 PvP reward account-wide, or at least offering a replica on other characters under the same service account.
Doing so would align these items with other legacy perks (like the Goobue mount) and remove the perverse incentive to abandon years of progress just to showcase gear you legitimately earned.

Recognizing exceptional achievements across the whole account costs virtually nothing, celebrates the players who achieved them, and strengthens the PvP community.
Thanks for spotlighting this—count me in on pushing for the policy change.

[SadGooseNoises]

Title really says it all. Some items are on just one of my characters, while other purchases are on multiple. Frankly, with the rising cost of the items in the shop, it should all be account wide.

And to further your point on inconsistent rulings with these items, I'd also like to point out how long it takes the devs to implement these things as well. There are still past items from PVP that are supposed to be added, but when?

I truly hope that a GM or the like sees this, and awards you your armor that you have rightfully earned.

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

The fact that Top 100 stuff isn't account-wide and has no method of being purchased at say a Calamity Salvager makes this sort of stuff incredibly weird to me. I got a set myself, but I am 1.) absolutely not interested in making alts knowing full well I can't use that armour there (I really like that armour and wear it like 75% of the time) and 2.) am deathly afraid of anyone ever getting into my account and deleting it maliciously. I never used my item refund request yet for this reason.

Furthermore...

If things were actually account-wide in the first place, then the occurence of individuals making multiple alt characters and parking all of them on the leaderboard (before they made changes to only track the highest per service account) would've been a massive non-issue.

I support making Top 100 equipment and mounts account-wide.

[Lacksz]

Top 100 rewards can not be account-wide because your character's ranked MMR is not account-wide.

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

Top 100 rewards can not be account-wide because your character's ranked MMR is not account-wide.

Uhh - you currently only get to have one character per service account on leaderboard Top 100/300, so this is sort of irrelevant, no...? Could make this an argument about past rewards, but I'd argue they should've had that change back then already.