Thread: PvP Rewards; 6.1 and beyond.

Originally Posted by brancinaed

What about ranked game mode? If we're playing ranked, especially at the top of the ladder, we wouldn't be dealing with brand new players at all. I'm more irked with everybody breaking the rules for the items; it ruined the supposed competitiveness of the ranking system, few were playing the game mode for competition or fun anymore. I do not blame Square Enix for this just the actions of individuals. I'm not going to ask for bans here, but I will beg for the game to be better. The PvP game would be dramatically improved if this large lot of items became obtainable PvP rewards.

Ranked players, including the majority of top 100 in most Data centers, want cheaters perma-banned. We want SE to draw the hard line. We have begged them to do so in the past. We deal with cheaters far more than anyone else. We reported them all of the time. While I have certainly not been hard-lined to make rewards exclusive, you posts are actually counter-productive. I'm starting to think they should be exclusive now.

Originally Posted by brancinaed

For normal mode achievements adding all the PvP items to achievements based on "X games played" is a good idea. Truly the most important thing is just for there to be games played. For ranked mode achievements I believe "X wins" is a better idea. I may be wrong, though, because I can see pro and cons in both cases.

X games played is the worst metric imaginable. Do you try to clear dungeons and raids or do you simply queue for them, fail, and get a reward?

Originally Posted by brancinaed

Because it got to the point where so many players were breaking T.O.S. for exclusive PvP rewards that word got out. Then people who didn't even PvP have heard the word. It sucks for legit players. Even the earliest season items get this negative attribution, though it used to be better, because people just hear the stories and can't know every individual player. Wearing the items that are top rank PVP rewards recently is like introducing yourself "assume I'm a cheater" because it's sadly a safe assumption in recent seasons.

Most people don't even know where the rewards come from. I have to tell them. They certainly never assume I cheated. I get asked often, even in FL matches. Thank God most players have an open mind, when it comes to this.

Originally Posted by Zsolen

Most people don't even know where the rewards come from. I have to tell them.

Same here, i get asked almost daily where my Eaglebeak set is from. Most of the people that played at the time are not playing anymore. At least when it comes to my old datacenter. When i look up their characters, they are still at 70 max, some never started Stormblood. There was a mass exodus of the old guard when the simplification of pvp happened.