The mounts rewarded in previous seasons of the Feast

[Stormfur]

Simple, PVP doesn't get easier, you cannot outgear your opponents (I mean you could in S1-4, because they allowed people to put on whatever, but fixed that in S5). You always fight at minimum iLvl. Some seasons are harder than others to rank up in (S1 brag, you can't rank up in S1 like you can now because the point system was much, much harsher), but in your individual season, you are evenly matched with other people in that same season as far as points, jobs, patches, etc.

Ehh..evenly matched is a whole other can of worms. At least the system tries. But there are plenty of threads here that show how skewed it can be. This season made things "fairer" by painting everyone, stat-wise, with the same brush. I was mostly referring to the previous ones. We all have different definitions of what hard is. It's totally subjective. But this season, it sort of levels the playing field, so I can see why it would be more difficult in a sense to break ahead.

Simple, you don't decide what SE chooses as the rewards at the end of the season. They did a good job to entice people with a mount, because people love mounts, it brought people in. They took something popular, like the Uraeus Coat, and reskinned it for Feast S1/S2, and then Fenrir, reskinned that for Feast S3/S4. And again, the climb is the same for everyone, it's a competition and there will be bads dragging you down, good players carrying you, etc. The best you can do is better yourself to be the good player each match guiding your team to victory aka GIT GUD.

Of course! And I respect that. That's why I'm participating in Season 5 as often as I can.

And this is where your entire argument falls apart. You bring up the same arguments time and again and keep hoping it will somehow give you a different answer. You mean to incite a forum rebellion to get what you want at the cost of others' efforts, it's exhausting to find these things and have to defend them over and over and over, especially as someone who went through all the effort to make it to the top 100.

LOL! A forum rebellion?! Isn't that a bit extreme? I'm only trying to show another perspective here. If SE never makes those mounts available again in the future of the game, then it is what it is. I've made my suggestions. Once in the General forum. Once in the Japanese PVP forum. I made a post here thanking the devs for the ticket system. I hope that we can work toward the rewards as well. If not? No big deal. It's not my choice to make. Mind you, I didn't start this thread, so clearly I am not the only one who wants these things.

Clearly you can tell that there are people willing to put PVP first, and through both skill and sacrifice make their way to the end of the leaderboard at the end of the season to claim their trophies. Because that's what it takes to win. Clearly you can also tell that there are people who are either unable or unwilling to do those things, and they don't make it onto the leaderboard. You don't get anywhere without sacrifice something, you just need to make your choices carefully and not complain about it after you made up your mind.

And hey, more power to them. I spend around 4-5 hours in the evenings playing this game. Nearly the entire time, I am queued for PVP. I am fortunate to play a tank, which is a desired role. But what if I were ranged and had to wait 30+ minutes for one match? In any given day I might get, at most 8? 10 matches? Maybe I win them all and make progress. Maybe I lose them all and fall back. Such is the PVP pendulum, but it should not be a contest of "who wants it more" to try and shelve your life aside for a digital asset. So many, in their lust for ranking, forget that this is a game. This part is meant to be competitive, sure, but at what cost?

Take me for example, I am a licensed healthcare professional with a 9-5 job. I hold a managerial position. I fight to maintain work-life balance, because I still go home and cook full meals for my family (dogs included, but that's more assembly of different things [like 5] added to their bowls). I find time for long dinner/TV time with my fiance, walks with my fiance and the dogs, my fiance's family events, seeing my family, everything. But I've made up my mind here in S5 to put my time in.

And that's great! Like I said, more power to you. This isn't a contest to see whose life is busier. I run a business full-time (a.k.a working 12 hours a day for myself to avoid working 8 for someone else! ) and in between charity work, spending time with my husband and family, and everything else I choose to do with my life, there's gaming. PVP rewards, at their core, are all about "who wants it more?" If you have the time/skill to put into it -- fantastic! But if you don't, why not let those people gradually work toward it? What is the harm in it? If I choose to spend a season to help care for my best friend who's stricken with cancer, did I simply not want it bad enough? If I spend a season undergoing a procedure to try and save my vision which severely restricts my screen-time (and yes, these things happened), did I just not want it bad enough? Obviously, most sensible people would drop EVERYTHING to handle those priorities. All I'm asking is for the ability to earn these things in the same way - just over time.

Feast rewards being exclusive makes it one of the last places where your achievements dont get erased by a sea of essential counterfeits, bought with less effort/skill than your real, hard-earned trophy.I wrote all this for you, but I'm sure it won't change your mind, it never does because you only care about your bottom line of needing to "collect" everything. Don't let your completionism spoil the game for others, thanks.

If you knew me at all, you'd know that I'm the farthest thing from a completionist. I also am not much of a collector of anything in game. But this is a mount I've asked for since the very first time I saw it -- long before it was ever a PVP reward. And in between the aforementioned things above, I competed. I hit gold easily enough but stopped, because the rampant win-trading, ACT trigger call-outs, and all that nonsense made trying to rank in the midst of EVERYTHING else going on, like tying your hands and feet and telling you to swim. If you were able to do it in the midst of all those things -- great! Congratulations!

Again, I am not your enemy. I don't want this mount handed out like candy. I want to be able to work toward it too. I didn't ask for things to be made easier in PVP but they were. And it's easy to see where this is going from a development standpoint. The rewards may never be available again, but things look to be shifting toward more of an accessible, inclusive -- but still competitive -- PVP system. Then again, they completely wiped light party off the map, so who knows. We will just have to wait and see.