RIP Minion Collectors :(

[Rieze_Xeero]

Did you happen to see the dev response before posting? ;P

Yep I saw it before posting but I finally have the reason to stop buying things. It made me realize it's not worth it

[Falmer]

As a low-g collector, I am cool with this.

Do not get me wrong, I understand the frustration of not being able to obtain exclusive minions. (Looking at you pesky Dalamud and Bahamut minions) I am just the only one, along with a few others on this board, to admit it is pretty sweet to be a special snow flake with a limited fancy minion. I love special snow flake status. In fact, I love seeing the PVP mounts and I don't PVP. Let them PVP hustlers be special snow flakes.

If there is a SE riot on this limited PVP minion, here are a few solutions.

1. Place PVP minion in POD - Floor 300 or drop
2. Place minion in Aqua - 100 floors, I do not care
3. Craft in 4.0
4. With the end of veteran awards, maybe make it like 3 years of daily logins to obtain. LOL
5. .000000000000001% drop during PVP 8 months after season

These are just a few suggestions. I think all of the above gives special snow flake status to PVPers and helps minion collectors.

YAY!

Hire me SE

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

The whole pvp reward structure is messed up.

Instead of rewarding by top positions, it should reward by rank progression. That way PvPers would still have to work towards the higher platinum and diamond ranks for the top rewards, but instead of being limited to 1, 10 or 100 players, it would be aviable for everyone in said rank, making the rewards much more significative for a much largers audience and probably, will mean a greater and more stable influx of players into PvP.

Right now this just encourages a basic influx due to hype about mounts and minions. After a few weeks, at best a month, PvP will be back at normal.

I really don't understand SE obsession with making rewards super exclusive and limited, instead of encouraging participation is just making the exact opposite.

[Kasathar]

Well, what can I say, you can't just get everything by buying every piece of merchandise out there. The whole thing about "collecting" is the actual challenge, and adding this to your list should not be a problem if you really want it.
I actually like this, it deters the whales from flooding the game and making it a cash shop dump. I'm already feeling a bit irritated with the wide array of stuff that SE sells there but not available through playing the game.

[REPROBEAN_CHILD]

This is horrible news. It makes me sad to see fellow gamers inexplicably pass away for no reason. I'll get as many players as I can on my server, so we can remember them together. My FC will light candles outside our house. Rest in peace, Minion Collectors, rest in peace...

[CompSci88]

Be good and get in the top 10?

[LineageRazor]

Be good and get in the top 10?

Doesn't matter how gud you git - if there's more than ten hardcore collectors, they could all completely dominate PvP and some of them would STILL fail to complete their collection. Ten is a very, very small number.

If attempting to obtain a full collection of minions is to be considered a valid pastime in this game, SE has now officially shut it down.

MMOs are nice because there's ALL KINDS of ways you can choose to play them, if you want to. It's always sad to see one of those avenues disappear. I don't collect minions myself (at least, not hardcore), but I'm sympathetic to the OP and his plight.

[Beckett]

Use this as an excuse to start saving time and money. Now that you can never have 100% of all minions, you no longer have to feel pressured to spend $90 on streams you won't watch just to get three minions. You don't need to buy soundtracks and plushes and books just to keep your collection up to date. Any physical item or Mog Station item SE releases from now on, you only have to buy it if you really want the item itself. You're free!

[Airget]

And? I don't see the big deal, there are already event minions, mog station minions, special addition minions gained through purchasing physical merch, why would this be such a big deal?

[Talraen]

And? I don't see the big deal, there are already event minions, mog station minions, special addition minions gained through purchasing physical merch, why would this be such a big deal?

Because some people actually have all of those minions, and effectively have no chance of getting the new ones. I imagine those people are kind of annoyed at how much they spent to keep their minion collection complete, only to have that option taken away without warning. I'm just glad I stopped trying a while back so I'm not in the same boat.