Why is the PvP Shadowstalker set unavailable permanently?

[kaynide]

Number 1 - There are 8 datacenters, Japan and Europe are not datacenters, Japan is a country and Europe is a region of countries.
Number 2 - You said 6 datacenters, then you list 3 datacenters and 2 others. You can't count, so let's do this together.

1 - Aether
2 - Crystal
3 - Primal
4 - Chaos
5 - Light
6 - Elemental
7 - Gaia
8 - Mana


See that wasn't so hard, was it.

Don’t waste time here talking math. There are several instances where this individual chooses to be ignorant, despite facts.

For example, they do not understand prime numbers. And apparently they don’t know when fall or winter are. Fine if they didn’t know, we’re told the correct info, and moved on..but this guy here, they’re a special kinda “want to argue themselves into a hole, facts be damned” type.


Also, @Titanmen, small request, once your alts get outed, could you do something like put fedoras on them? A fun in joke for us forum peeps. I’m dyin to know how many I got pinned down correctly.

[Melrot]

Although the topic of exceptionally good All Class armour being locked behind T100 Feast should be touched upon. I don't think it should start with such hostile opening post.

Feast rewards were always there, they were always like that. It's only that now they gave it extremly detailed and epic glamour that on top of it is all class. The negativity around this reward is just culmination of:

• How badly the Feast is designed (one map, time limited, dead outside season, you get almost nothing for participation, unless you are top 100)
• How PvP is unpopular mode in FFXIV
• This is probably the only good looking all class plate armour in the game
  <Put caster wearing a dress meme here>
• It's limited and will never return. Think of how many people you have saw with Season 1-10 rewards. Most of old T100 are not even playing the game anymore. This armour will share that fate in 2+ years

If XIV's team were to address at least one of those points, the sour taste of this beeing T100 Feast reward would be significantly reduced.

[Stormfur]

- Account-wide rewards
- Make it per tier, i.e. you reach diamond, you get rewards associated with it.
- Even if you reach platinum, gold, whatever, you still get something.. maybe vouchers that you can eventually use to purchase said rewards across several seasons. It's just that top performers get them sooner.
- Losing doesn't cost you points. You stay where you are unless you win. That should curb a lot of the toxicity. Maybe....
- Maps that actually feel like an arena or something. Cute moogles and airships don't make me think "my thirst for blood must be sated!"

It's not rocket surgery but for some reason they decided to double down and keep digging themselves into this hole of stubbornness with regard to PVP.

Thankfully they're going to rework it so that Feast isn't all about the healer. Literally a good healer can carry an entire match and it shouldn't be that way.

[Skiros]

Don’t waste time here talking math. There are several instances where this individual chooses to be ignorant, despite facts.

For example, they do not understand prime numbers. And apparently they don’t know when fall or winter are. Fine if they didn’t know, we’re told the correct info, and moved on..but this guy here, they’re a special kinda “want to argue themselves into a hole, facts be damned” type.


Also, @Titanmen, small request, once your alts get outed, could you do something like put fedoras on them? A fun in joke for us forum peeps. I’m dyin to know how many I got pinned down correctly.

Last time someone listed the alts, they got banned.

[Minsue]

Starting to think your A. Karen type or B. A troll similar toned thread about aether being locked also it's a PVP set not uncommon for them to be renewed with each season unlike that "Certain MMO" aka wow who had a habit of limiting almost everything a bit of limit here and it is ok especially if it's PVP takes the place of a trophy aye. So long as they don't time limit like 99.9% of stuff it's fine but stop for real it's sad when I notice a troll/Karen trend I barely ever speak on the forums.

[kaynide]

Last time someone listed the alts, they got banned.

Oh no need to list them, I just wanna play along a little big. Pink hair, crazy hat, something for us to know it’s him.

Kinda like how wow and ahwa have the same hair.

[Venandi]

That's because there's a BIG chunk of them boosting others who then turn around and sell the accounts.

I've seen a fair few in Feast wearing the armor - the shadow one and the hell hound one. But to see them actually requires people to play those modes, and with the odds stacked against you from the start (seriously? Who decided that Diamond only falls to Platinum next season but Gold falls to Bronze? There's so few players as it is...) you'll be waiting hours to get a match.

Exactly. 80% of the top 100 is cheating on all 6 datacenters. So the actual legit players that have the glamour probably number in the dozens.

[Anhra]

To be fair, the anger of the community about the armor is completely justified. There were plenty of "elite feast players" arround during Season 18-19 who even used alt characters just to kick people off from the Top 100.

If you don't believe me, then check Season 18 on Chaos Datacenter and i dare you telling me that People were playing in a legit way. It was straight out impossible to get that Armor without either being a Botter, Cheater or Wintrader.

And the best part is, that they are getting away with it
every.
single.
time.

[Ixon]

The medals made for that year are not the same as the previous, same with rings, trophies, etc. They are made specifically for that year, for that accomplishment. You cannot win the 2011 Superbowl rings by winning the 2021 Superbowl. In the same analogy, saying that you can place 5th for five years in a row to get the 2016 trophy is a bit of a stretch when it comes to a competitive game mode.

[Ixon]

I can negate this with a single example: Frontlines/Rival Wings. It has what you ask for, rewards based on achievements that you can get over time, except there is an issue. Hardly anyone actually tries. Mind you it's a larger playerbase per game, but after all my matches on all game modes, you would be lucky if a quarter of your team actually puts for any effort. They would rather spam games and rng wins. People already do that in feast for items like Fenrir and Hellhound minions, the Regalia mount, and was extremely bad during the Garo event. Until the matchmaking is fundamentally fixed, you will just have people roll their face on their keyboard till they hit plat(which you can easily get to with a negative win rate which is also an issue in itself), for a few seasons to get a reward somebody played over 500 games to achieve. This might be addressed with the new PVP mode come 6.0 as was mentioned, but I cannot see this being healthy for the game mode as whole.