[Request] Add alternative methods to getting old Feast rewards

[Aviars]

As long as top 100 players are getting the top 100 rewards it doesn't bother me as much

The Hellpup was added as an achievement reward and yet I still don't see every random PvPer wandering around with one at their heels.

The hellpup was changed to a general achievement at the beginning of the season in question and replaced by a different reward that remains exclusive to this day. SE is committed to exclusive items.

[Keridwyn]

SE is committed to exclusive items.

No, they are not. See everything that didn't require either arbitrary judging or buying a different version of the game. The only true exception to this might be crossover even items due to licensing concerns.

[Aviars]

No, they are not. See everything that didn't require either arbitrary judging or buying a different version of the game. The only true exception to this might be crossover even items due to licensing concerns.

Your point doesn't refute mine if anything it helps me. Anyways SE gave up the minion from being exclusive due to demand, but they also replaced it with another exclusive item. That shows commitment to having exclusive items in the first place. If they weren't committed to it then they wouldn't have made a replacement for the minion being made non-exclusive.

And besides that, you have already accepted that there are exclusive items present other than pvp items. It only helps me that you admitted to that fact.

[MStowastiqVahlshdeh]

TLDR :

1: While I think it would be more fun to have access to old Feast rewards, hell it would be amazing if the UWU weapon was in the game for 1 gil but I don't think it would encourage the kind of competition that there presently is for the prestige of having these trophies/rewards. So my answer would be: no SE please don't make Feast rewards retroactively available to everyone who has not won them in the original format they were introduced in.

2: At least make all of the rewards inside of the Feast Quartermaster visible to newcomers who have not ranked or tried Feast. I feel this will bring more people to the content, potentially myself for example.

The wordy version:

While it would be fun to have access to the mounts and rewards, my guess is that it would kind of remove the whole point of having them in the first place.


@OP would you mind if the Astropos mount that is won via Mentoring was on Mogstation? Or are you like me in that you just wanted the mount and do not care how many other people have it too? Is the prestige of having won that exclusive trophy not your motivation for putting out all that effort to get it?

That is the kind of exclusive reward that I feel people do the effort for the trophy, rarity and prestige of the reward.

I am on the outside looking in, I'm not a competitive person and if I am going to put effort into something like I presently do for Centurio tiger mount for example, it is for my own needs and while its fun to have things to show off, that comes after my goal to meet my own needs and desires for the object.

That is selfish of me but what it comes down to, is if I firstly do not like the trophy, I will not enjoy using it or having it no matter the exclusivity of having that trophy or how many others also have it.

I say this -because so far, nothing I wanted bad enough has made me try Feast more than the one time I tried it.. on its very first day of launch.. but that is not to say that I would not go for it, if I saw something I did find worth the effort.

- So I don't know for sure but isn't the exclusivity of the rewards, the reason why people strive to be that small group of 100 players? Is it not the point of being that small group of players who have won? The trophy, the bling seems to me like the reason they strive.

So if it was open to everyone and not a rare item, I imagine people would not strive as they do now, to get it.

Slightly offtopic Feast suggestion :

If there is one thing I would suggest, it would be to make the rewards visible to everyone via the Quartermaster npc. I don't mean the top 100 rewards but -all- of the other ones that are armour and weapons. And viewing them via the Eorzea database is not the same as the ability to /try on or as good as seeing a photo of the actual mount the way they do for the top 100 and minion rewards.

Right now I can't go click on the Feast Quartermaster npc and see what rewards are there but I can click on the npc for the other kind of PVP rewards bought with Wolf Marks.

For me this is a big motivating factor in trying "new" or unexplored content, being able to actually see what is there.

This is because I am fairly picky and have unusual tastes. I measure each content with the reward vs effort equation. Every time I have considered FEAST, I was discouraged by the vague outcomes of potentially hours/months invested, only to find out that I don't like what the rewards are.

[Stormfur]

The hellpup was changed to a general achievement at the beginning of the season in question and replaced by a different reward that remains exclusive to this day. SE is committed to exclusive items.

Yes, I positively quake with envy when I zoom in on every hardcore pvp player character and see those exclusive EARRINGS /s