No Rewards For PvP - Blue Tracker

#1 - March 24, 2014, 7:07 p.m.

With the removal of Glory and the pitiful amounts of gold received, there seems to be little to no motivation to PvP. In other words, there are no rewards that benefit you in PvP. Previously, there was the anesthetic gear, but if you start PvP’ing now, your character will be literally exactly the same (PvP wise) as when you started.

To new players, you’re not going to win much (and therefore not much gold) so, it’s better to go back to PvE to progress.

For experienced players, gold is still useless in PvP, so it pushes PvP players into PvE to reap their rewards. Rewards also don’t transfer so, it promotes players STAYING in PvE to actually utilize their rewards.

I came back to the game like 2 days ago so, what’s happening and where is it going?

Justin ODell

#13 - March 27, 2014, 12:16 a.m.

We removed glory and match reward chests early to prevent a flood of PvE players from coming into PvP just to fill their wardrobe. While the our team would LOVE everyone playing PvP, some super smart economist peopleguys said it would have negative repercussions on the in-game economy or something.

It’s really unfortunate that we had to do this, but we explored other ways of handling it and nothing was really feasible except holding wardrobe back until the next feature pack (which also meant holding back lots of other PvP changes) or removing some of the PvP rewards for a month.

Edit: Tune in this Friday for news about the next phase of the new reward system.

Justin ODell

#16 - March 27, 2014, 12:39 a.m.

clint.5681:
Why couldn’t you tell us that earlier?

What I mean by that is why wait more than a week after the patch hit to tell us. I can understand not saying anything before the 18th now so you can avoid a influx of last minute pves

We had to wait for wardrobe to be announced so we didn’t spoil the surprise for the people that didn’t already figure it out. I meant to mention two days ago, but was so busy I forgot to necro the thread. Sorry.