Dev blog: New Feast rewards

[Corue]

Instead of mount music you get to hear him yell "MY WORD THIS DATA" over and over. Please look forward to it.

[ReclusiveMage]

Instead of mount music you get to hear him yell "MY WORD THIS DATA" over and over. Please look forward to it.

Expanding off of this idea- when the mount is idle, you hear Aulus say 'my word this data!' in varied stretched out, quiet low-pitch sounds of the voice clip. While in movement or flying, you hear 'my word this data!' played at double speed in varied high-pitched tones.

[MuseTraveller]

Aulus is finally sharing his findings!

[zuzu-bq]

Yet another nice reward no one will have.

[Zojha]

Yet another nice reward no one will have.

Hey, 600 people will have it! Maybe 780, if team rewards are back.

Still less than Ultimate clears, which are at 2200, but at least you don't need to be quite as skilled for it. Last season even had a whole buncha Platinums in the top 100 and you don't even need to be able to maintain a 50% winrate for platinum, as you get more points for a win than you lose for a loss baseline until Diamond.

[zuzu-bq]

Yeah but if you can't commit too much first days games simply stop popping for you because how the Matchmaking been working lately and how everyone actively playing will be too far ahead.

Comparing to Ultimate is not a bad comparison but not a good one either. Remember the game's main focus is PvE yet any PvE reward is retroactive. While Ultimate's reward is just farmable weapons and a title to anyone that clears anytime. PvP rewards are just for a ridiculously small ammount of people playing a mostly dead content with a bad matchmaking and broken ranking system and then it will be gone forever.

"Otherwise no one would do it." But the rewards rarely get new people into PvP. No one wants to go through a system they can't win against because they're new. I keep trying to get friends into the PvP and they keep saying they don't want to because the rewards are most likely unachievable for them and there are no rewards otherwise but a random accessory.

[Ryannex]

Yeah but if you can't commit too much first days games simply stop popping for you because how the Matchmaking been working lately and how everyone actively playing will be too far ahead.

Actually, the ranking has been changed. Before, people would get to a safe space then not queue to risk losing a major amount of points. Now, however, they have changed it so only your high score counts. That means that say you were on 2000 points, for example, then lost a game, your points will go down to 1940 or so. However, the leaderboard only counts your TOP score, so the 2000 would still be there. This means you can no longer 'lose' points on the leaderboard and, as there is no longer any risk of losing your points and place, that the queues will stay much more active throughout.

. PvP rewards are just for a ridiculously small ammount of people playing a mostly dead content with a bad matchmaking and broken ranking system and then it will be gone forever.

I don't understand what your solution would be. Have no prizes for the top 100? Or miniscule ones that they did in the past, like earrings? If that's the case, no-one would play. Again, if the rewards were available elsewhere via achievement grinding (even feast training), it would destroy ranked. Why put in the hours of effort and training and skill for the season if you can just get it, stress free, via unranked?

[jameseoakes]

Yeah but if you can't commit too much first days games simply stop popping for you because how the Matchmaking been working lately and how everyone actively playing will be too far ahead.

Comparing to Ultimate is not a bad comparison but not a good one either. Remember the game's main focus is PvE yet any PvE reward is retroactive. While Ultimate's reward is just farmable weapons and a title to anyone that clears anytime. PvP rewards are just for a ridiculously small ammount of people playing a mostly dead content with a bad matchmaking and broken ranking system and then it will be gone forever.

"Otherwise no one would do it." But the rewards rarely get new people into PvP. No one wants to go through a system they can't win against because they're new. I keep trying to get friends into the PvP and they keep saying they don't want to because the rewards are most likely unachievable for them and there are no rewards otherwise but a random accessory.

I'm not sure Ultimate is a good comparison, it's reward is for the challenge of the content but the challenge is always there this will number limited and not helped by the fact that it will quickly be almost impossible to rank up once everyone stop playing after 2 weeks. It doesn't work as incentive to start PVPing as it's unlikely you have any chance of getting it as you'll be competing with the experienced crowd and the none 100 rewards are terrible

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Well it's a top 100 prize, not everything should be free for all, unfortunately. People spend months working on their rankings for these rewards, so it's only right that they have a nice prize - otherwise no-one would do it

See, I might agree if this applied to other content. Savage mounts aren't exclusive, and become easier the longer you wait. Basically, they do this not to reward PvPers but to desperately beg people to play PvP.