Dev blog: New Feast rewards

[Stormfur]

This thread is 25 pages and counting. If the dev team ever needed to see precisely how the players feel about pvp ranked rewards, this is it.

[Kazgrel]

Looks like they’ve taken a cue from WoW with having exclusive pvp mounts for ranked play. I’m fine with that, really, but there’s one difference between here and WoW; in the latter, you could get different skins of the same mount. Generally the pvp ones had some form of armor on them vs. their more casually acquired alternatives (and I don’t mean that as a slight). There should be some sort of recolor or reskin version available for those not into pvp.

[Lilseph]

Why do people think that the alternatives are always easier and mindless? Use the current PvP system, place the old Feast rewards in a store. Make it so you can only buy them with collars. Be able to buy the collars with Wolf Marks (say 20k each), then you have to grind the hell out of PvP to get them. The store should have all the previous season's rewards but not the trophies, they should remain exclusive. Give the top 100 a title, like SCOB savage back in the day and a shit ton of collars. There, you have your bragging rights.

[Paladinleeds]

Alright, so let's say they did change it up slightly, kept the same one shot only approach (as in if you miss the season, tough bananas), and only one person per season got a mount (as in top 1 in the entire game, not just datacentre), how would you feel about that Aviars? It'd make each reward even more unique. Let's also make it so once the new Ultimate drops, the old one becomes sealed off forevermore. And thus the fight can never be experienced again, nor can the rewards ever be obtained.

[alimdia]

I think things need to be equal between both game modes.

If PvE rewards become easier to get over the time then so should PvP rewards.

If PvE rewards are not limited by time then neither should be PvP rewards.

[Stormfur]

The problem is that some people feel threatened that other people might want the opportunity to also earn their precious pixels.

No one here is saying we want to give pvp rewards out to all the unwashed masses for nothing. We're saying we would like the opportunity to earn them through similar means.

If you think that option devalues your precious pixels so much, then I would like to invite you to see alllllllllll the other items in game that have similarly been "devalued"

"Limited time" lightning gear
"Limited time" dragon quest gear
"Exclusive" mog cap
"Exclusive" items from china
"Exclusive" items from Amazon promotions
Need i continue?

[zuzu-bq]

Some PvE rewards are actually exclusive though?

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Some PvE rewards are actually exclusive though?

Only a small portion, most of which is old 1.x stuff. Even the minions they add to merchandise stopped having timed exclusives due to the number of complaints. PvP remains the lone holdout on exclusivity.

[Nihility]

Only a small portion, most of which is old 1.x stuff. Even the minions they add to merchandise stopped having timed exclusives due to the number of complaints. PvP remains the lone holdout on exclusivity.

that's not even pve exclusive though. The only stuff that is exclusive but not pvp is stuff from parts of 1.0 that don't even exist anymore which is more like "whole other game exclusive" and merchandise bonuses which aren't any kind of gameplay exclusive.
Everything else is either always available and made easier as time goes on or added to mogstation six months later if it was event based

[Tsumdere]

Maybe they should remove the arbitrary number of people who receive it, add ranked decay, and give the rewards to everyone Gold and above just like League does with Victorious skins. Give the players who reach Diamond the same mount but with sparklies.

It is still timed, it is still competitive, but it gives newbies and those with significantly less time a chance to give it a go.