Suggestion: Introduce a weekly PvP token

[Aemon_Cassiodea]

The Feast Seasons & Rewards

We have just started The Feast Season 16. It has now been a little over 4 years since Season 1 of The Feast took place. Every season has offered a new beautiful reward to the game.

The rewards have been accessories based on your rank-tier, wolf collars, minions, trophies, armor sets and mounts. The two minions later became rewards from 2 different achievements and can now be obtained by anyone. There are however still 10 released mounts (11 once Season 16 reaches its end) and 9 armor sets that are exclusive to the top 100 from the given season.

I’ve been playing the game for several years, and have accumulated an online time of nearly a year, yet I have never seen any of these rewards anywhere in the open world. I have seen very few while waiting for a PvP match to begin.

There exists 177 mounts within the game as of this post, 2 of those mounts are legacy mounts that are unobtainable for newer players. 6.2% of all the mounts in the game are PvP Season rewards, unobtainable for anyone but the 100 players who got it during the season.

Non-existent PvP Activity on Datacenter

Trying to get into a PvP match, that isn’t the daily roulette, will result in long waiting times, at least on Light Datacenter. The only time I’ve been able to comfortably queue up for PvP has been at the start of events such as Moogle Treasure Trove, the release of new armors in The Wolves’ Pier or the release of a new PvP gamemode.

Introducing a weekly coin from PvP

I hope that I have made my point clear with the previous two sections. We have a lot of barely used lucrative rewards and we barely have anyone queuing up for PvP.

By introducing a weekly coin that can be obtained in a number of ways, I believe it would be possible to motivate more players to include PvP in their daily / weekly routine within the game.

Some suggestions as to how you could obtain the weekly coin could be:
Having to clear the entire challenge log
Play X amount of PvP, where unique game modes reward extra progress towards the weekly coin, but playing the same will also suffice. The gamemode in the daily roulette should give the least, to try and nudge people towards other gamemodes.

The weekly coin could have several uses, but the most important would be buying old The Feast Season rewards that were released X seasons ago or X years ago.

Seasonal Rewards:

[Aemon_Cassiodea]

Some data on the previous Feast Seasons

I apologize if any of the dates are off or if I have done some of my calculations wrong, I just thought it would be nice to present the seasons and their rewards.

Season 1 (Patch 3.26 - 3.35):

Start 14th April 2016
End 19th July 2016
Lasted 96 days
Ended 1502 days ago (4 years, 1 month and 10 days)

Solo:
Top 10 - Lone Wolf Crown
Top 100 - The rest of the Lone Wolf outfit

Party:
Top 10 - Pack Wolf Crown
Top 30 - The rest of the Pack Wolf outfit

Season 2 (Patch 3.35 - 3.45):

Start 19th July 2016
End 1st November 2016
Lasted 105 days
Ended 1397 days ago (3 years, 9 months and 28 days)

Solo:
Top 10 - Eaglebeak Crown
Top 100 - Eaglebeak Set

Party:
Top 10 - Eaglewing Crown
Top 30 - Eaglewing Set

Season 3 (Patch 3.45 - 3.55):

Start 1st November 2016
End 28th February 2017
Lasted 119 days
Ended 1278 days ago (3 years, 6 months and 1 day)

Solo:
Top 10 - Hellpup (Which is now obtainable through achievements)
Top 100 - Lone Hellhound

Party:
Top 10 - Faepup (Which is now obtainable through achievements)
Top 30 - Pack Hellhound

Season 4 (Patch 3.56 - 4.0):

Start 28th March 2017
End 16th June 2017
Lasted 80 days
Ended 1170 days ago (3 years, 2 months and 13 days)

Solo:
Top 100 - Lone Faehound

Party:
Top 30 - Pack Faehound

Season 5 (Patch 4.06 - 4.15):

Start 7th August 2017
End 20th November 2017
Lasted 105 days
Ended 1013 days ago (2 years, 9 months and 9 days)

Top 100 - Hellhound Set

Season 6 (Patch 4.15 - 4.2):

Start 20th November 2017
End 29th January 2018
Lasted 70 days
Ended 943 days ago (2 years and 7 months)

Top 100 - Grey Hound Set

Season 7 (Patch 4.25 - 4.3):

Start 13th March 2018
End 22th May 2018
Lasted 70 days
Ended 830 days ago (2 years, 3 months and 7 days)

Top 100 - Magitek Conveyor

[Aemon_Cassiodea]

Season 8 (May 29 2018 - Patch 4.35):

Start 29th May 2018
End 3rd July 2018
Lasted 35 days
Ended 788 days ago (2 years, 1 month and 26 days)

Top 100 - Prototype Conveyor

Season 9 (August 14 2018 - Patch 4.4):

Start 14th August 2018
End 18th September 2018
Lasted 35 days
Ended 711 days ago (1 year, 11 months and 11 days)

Top 100 - Barghest Set

Season 10 (Patch 4.41 - Patch 4.45):

Start 2nd October 2018
End 6th November 2018
Lasted 35 days
Ended 662 days ago (1 year, 9 months and 23 days)

Top 100 - Moddey Set

Season 11 (Patch 4.45 - 4.5):

Start 6th November
End 8th January 2019
Lasted 63 days
Ended 599 days ago (1 year, 7 months and 21 days)

Top 100 - Magna Roader

Season 12 (Patch 4.5 - 4.55):

Start 8th January 2019
End 12th February 2019
Lasted 35 days
Ended 564 days ago (1 year 6 months and 17 days)

Top 100 - Maxima Roader

Season 13 (Patch 4.57 - May 28):

Start 23th April 2019
End 28th May 2019
Lasted 35 days
Ended 459 days ago (1 year, 3 months and 1 day)

Top 100 - Koro Armor Coffer

Season 14 (5.18 - 5.2):

Start 24th December 2019
End 18th February 2020
Lasted 56 days
Ended 193 days ago (6 months and 11 days)

Top 100 - Epimetheus Mount

Season 15 (5.25 - 5.3):

Start 7th April 2020
End 11th August 2020
Lasted 126 days
Ended 18 days ago

Top 100 - Menoetius

Season 16 (5.3 - 5.35):

Start 11th August 2020

Top 100 - Magitek Hyperconveyor

[ItMe]

This is cool.
And if it becomes necessary, they could always instead introduce a slight recolor of these old rewards to keep the original ones unique and valuable.

[Dylora_Anarma]

I like the idea.
Even more so as much of the stuff is locked and hardly seen/used, at most you see the reward from the last season from time to time to show off and thats it.

[Kurando]

I think Yoshi said the original stuff would never come back if people missed it but saying that, if Replica versions of the gear was introduced the would be pretty nice. It would encourage more people up get involved with PvP, and at least give a chance to get something that may have been missed by others. The mounts though could be a different story, I suppose recolours could be an option but to be fair think players might want glamour items more.

[DrWho2010]

they've said that old feast rewards will never come back. it's better they stay exclusive for the people that won those rewards. otherwise what was the point of even participating if anyone could get them later?

[Aemon_Cassiodea]

Well getting to use an outfit or a mount exclusively for 1 - 4 years is quite a good prize if you ask me. The idea is that anyone who would be interested in obtaining them in the future would still have to wait a very long time for the reward to reach a certain age, then get enough weekly coins to obtain it. It isn't supposed to be quick and easy. It will take a while and hopefully increase PvP activity in the process.

[DrWho2010]

i think the opinions of the people that originally obtained the rewards outweighs your ideas.