Quote Originally Posted by Astronis View Post
The trophy was a cool fancy hat.
Well, that's the issue with comparison. A trophy is a trophy in that it only exists to show off your achievement. It doesn't have any other purpose.

A hat exists to look good. Using a hat that looks super good as a trophy is just asking for someone to start copying it because it looks good with 0 care or regard for whatever the hat meant as 'a trophy'.

Plus you get to keep your special 'trophy' hat. After all, everyone will be able to instantly tell if someone's using a 'fake' one. To me it seems like OP is fully aware that nobody in the modern community gives a shit about achievements of PVPers from 10 years ago, and that those rewards were the only way they'd ever get any acknowledgement for those and the moment you can get the same looks without needing the actual 'trophy' attached, their peak life moment of "top100 wintrader gamemode player" will lose what little value it had remaining.