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Try to keep it civil, very curious what people think
Are the rewards enough? Maybe follow up video another time based with some responses o7
Nope really don’t see a need to do CC ranked. Just trying to get enough for series mount and that’s that really.
I think there is no problem with physical rewards if they are done differently. As it has been mentioned and pointed out the top ranks are gatekept and possibly even wintraded to be kept. Which means the vast majority of players are never going to touch the rewards that are once and gone. I think a better way to do it would be if they add back in armor sets mounts of minions or even the glows there should be an absolute minimum rank you need to achieve to get those rewards. And then a currency that comes from any ranked play to purchase those rewards. This way the hardcore pvpers will get the payoff of being able to purchase more rewards. Whereas other will still be able to earn them. And the rewards should be placed on a vender by season and not removed.
The Issue with ranked PVP is and always has been FOMO. It doesn't feel good and it actively makes you not want to keep at it. I don't mind if they made the rewards for ranked as glamorous as possible, but they should not be timed. Maybe a new ranked only currency like "Red Trophy Crystals" and access to a vendor that sells any and all of the older ranked PVP rewards would solve the issue i think.
The plates for ranked only changing number between seasons was a letdown for me cuz they're basically the same thing over and over. Idk at least a different color each seasons would be nice.
Fanfest NA CC finals, the seats were pretty packed. YoshiP was literally sitting on the floor in front of the front row 5 feet from me. Im not sure everyone knew what was going on (even the commentators, though they were trying), but people seemed to get hyped.
@meoni after the PLL on day 2 they sent out a notice in the fanfest app that the line for merch was closed if you did not get a spot already (they handed out tickets for people to comeback later and all the tickets for it were gone). Also you needed to camp seats so as soon as anyone tried to get up their seats got taken by someone who might not have been interested in pvp but was interested in having good seats for the primals concert for them and their friends.
However, the people there were doing their best to hype up the teams and I will say I wish second place would have gotten first place since they were from the same data center as me but it was more "go home team" and "don't let the default portraits win" then being invested in the team on a personal level.
Personally, I'd be happy with them just creating variants of the big Battle Pass rewards. They're already creating the items/mounts/glam/etc. so it wouldn't really require significantly more time/effort on the developer end. Just have a different dye pattern on the glam or a different colour variation for the mount. Maybe even just add extra sparkles or effects for the mount sort of like how the golden mounts are basically the same thing as the normal version but with a different colour and coins spewing out. I do think that players who achieve the top rankings should get something more special than a portrait border. The glowy weapon effect is a good start to me and, frankly, if I actually liked the base weapons you apply the effect to I would have definitely been tempted to try for a top ranking (not that I would have achieved it, but I at least would have been tempted to try)
I haven't managed to play more than a couple of ranked matches ever because I wasn't interested enough to reach the ranks with more active player bases on my server, and now I'm locked in the bottom tier where almost nobody plays unless I were to prioritise ranking right at a season reset. The weapons and adventurer plates seem like appropriate rewards to me, because it's like ultimates – a status symbol for players who are at the top of either pvp or pve. Maybe they should include titles as well if they wanted an extra something, and I'd be ok with exclusive armour sets, or exclusive versions of existing ones as well.
People playing in ranked don't miss out on the series reward card, but that is also not excluding casual players, so imo it's a better place for minions and mounts, which have always been more of a collectors item that anyone could obtain eventually than raw prestige symbols. If people are incentivised to do pvp by big rewards on the series pass, then people who want to play ranked will be playing ranked anyway, unless it gets to a point where it's absolutely dominated by bots and win traders chasing high value ranking rewards.
I cant even play ranked in my server. New DC have no PVP scene whatsoever
Side Note: I wish they would let us buy older rewards even if its just ridiculously priced in terms of Crystals like Im fine with a 15K Crystal rewards as long as I can grab the old stuff at my own pace
As long as they bring the pvp items back without it becoming such an exclusive thing. There’s nothing worse for a collector to be gated off from the rewards cause of some pay to win bastards win trading.
Me personally i pvp for fashion if i can obtain fashion later with out fomo thats even better especially since i don't get to play 14 often due to work.
They should add cosmetic rewards as both a ranked and non rank reward. The ranked should be a different color to make it clear that it is a rank pvp reward. Then make it so that the non ranked version is available beyond the series.
I can't help but see those with older pvp gear as cheaters, so many of them were win trader boosters, that even if they didn't do so directly, they benefited by proximity.
As for rewards, i would go for gear, emotes, & mounts. However, they would need to feel tied to pvp themes & feel aggressive / warlike.
I hope we get soon some cool glam sets again from lvl 25 reward. The last two are some of the coolest looking sets in the game
I love the Series system. There's cool glam, minions, mounts, framer's kits. A bit for everyone. And people actually try PvP. Before the rework, a lot of people said they didn't like PvP or that it just sucked, now I don't see those opinions. So the rework and the Series system have been some of the best content in EW.
Now, the Seasons… I tried the last seasons of The Feast for a while but I gave up the moment I saw the top 100 hundred players. There were players with the same last name up there. It was obviously the same person with different characters. That's a different kind of griefing. Some Feast mounts I have never seen, and the same with the glam. It is so exclusive, you never see it… so what was the point? I remember Yoshida saying they were bringing Feast rewards to the game in the LL leading to EW, but it hasn't happened. People don't know what to spend Wolf Marks and Trophy Crystals. I wouldn't mind a huge grind for the Feast mounts and glam, it would be something for the PvP players that keep playing the content. So yes, as a mount collector, I'd hate to see mounts and cool glam returning to a system that people can abuse with win trades. Adventurer plates and glowy weapons are fine, in my opinion. Like you said, the challenge is already good enough.
I personally think the weapons look bad. I think it’s in a good place as it is. Maybe add a few different glam pieces with unique glows
The reward is high rank in PvP. It’s exactly the same in theme like beating Ultimate. It’s the achievement.
I actively don’t want to do ranked PvP, so none of the material rewards appeal to me, and never will.
There is still far too much win trading in PVP for me, so i dont really have care for ranked pvp
They should make old event rewards that are in the cash shop rewards for pvp, that way it gives people a chance to get those items that were not around at the time for free. And people that just want the item can just buy it would be no reason to throw match’s since u could just buy it in the cash shop
I do not understand people who want to be forced to do things. Do you all not have jobs? or school? Like I do crap I hate day in and day out for a paycheck. I 100% do not want to be forced to do content I would otherwise not do because it is the only path to X reward when I am just relaxing. The bulk of the rewards in the game are where they should be — in the middle. If you want to specialize in 1 area of content and push it, then do it because you love that content. And if you would only ever do content for a reward, then here is news for you: You didn't want to do it to begin with and your time would have been better spent doing something you want to do for the pure joy of doing it.
I truly can't get into pvp. I mean on a rare occasion it can be fun especially when it's a close game. But for the most part I find myself not really liking it. I sometimes only do it as my daily duty but it's not something I find myself getting excited for.
Adding My two cents
I am a top 100 player of The Feast for Multiple seasons, my two cents is that Crystal Conflict just fucking sucks when compared to The Feast. In Fact, Crystal Conflict caters towards more casuals that dont require any skill or "Commitment and Improvement" in Rank play. To give you an idea, when i started season 1, it took me a good two weeks to get to crystal and then when I found out that it was not even worth being top 100, I just took my season 1 crystal rank prizes and titles and called it a day. The Feast was alot more enjoyable, alot more of an adrenaline rush which is mainly what I sign up for aside from the amazing rewards, and CC doesnt give that same rush that The Feast used too.
So should CC go back to Season rewards, to me I think its already to late. I know other top 100 players (numerous in fact) that just gave up on the entire thing in general and only signed up for the CC regional championship because it actually offer rewards that was different that endless boring seasons (Money was included so theres a motivator). Personally PVP dead to me unless they offer a much more adrenaline experience and shiny weapons isnt going to offer that much an incentive compared to Armor and Mounts. I only did CC for 1 season and drop it.
Also this is the PVP you guys were asking for so why bother asking the question, CC is literally Easy mode for free titles and cards with no Season rewards. I am honestly glad i got into Feast as Early as I did, especially if it was going to be succeeded by this mess and manage to bag those Feast rewards.
System to support cheaters, hackers, wintraders, and boosters.
I hate the PvP in this game and the last thing I want to see is exclusive rewards for top 100 people, especially when it's known that they are using cheats and win trading. I mean I like the idea of these new glowy weapons, I just hate the fact that I'd have to slog through the horrible pvp in this game to get them.