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Season 4 Reward Teaser Blog

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HKtheindomitable
02.10.2015 , 07:35 PM | #51
Quote: Originally Posted by venomlash View Post
That's pretty much what I asked. Prepare the reskins! My cartel coins are ready!
Exclamation: WOO!

*sound of coins rattling in chassis*
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venomlash
02.10.2015 , 07:41 PM | #52
Quote: Originally Posted by ThorgrimLutgen View Post
I don't PVE, can we have a reskined Wings of the Architect on the CM please, or maybe on the Rishi vendor?
There is precedent for what I'm asking.
Quote: Originally Posted by EricMusco View Post
Hey everyone,

I know there has been a bit of frustration from our PvP community regarding a Rancor mount going into the Cartel Market. Although I had mentioned at the time that there would be Rancor mounts coming to both the CM and Operations, I thought it would be good to explain our philosophy on mounts. Especially around their exclusivity.

For PvP mounts, such as Season rewards, what you are going to tend to find is that they are exclusive variations of a mount and not necessarily a completely exclusive model (not to say we would never do an exclusive model, that is always possible). For example, you will not find a Rancor that looks anything like Giradda’s Rancor, but you can find other Rancor mounts. Aside from the unique appearance, what sets this mount apart is exclusivity. That variation is not only exclusive in appearance, but it is only available for a limited time. Meaning anyone who comes into the game now, or who was not Tier 1 during Season 1, can never acquire that mount. Although I can understand that having a unique variant, and not a unique mount, can seem less exciting. It actually ends up being more exclusive in the long term!

For mounts that come from Operations, such as the Wings of the Architect, we treat these a bit differently. As you can tell from the Wings, and other mounts such as Titan-6, they are themed directly around the Operation where they drop. Our intent is that this will stay that way and those mounts will remain exclusive to those Operations. However, one thing that is different here than with the PvP mount, is that these mounts will always be present in-game. This means that although right now, only some of the best Operations players in the world have these mounts, in time they will become more accessible as new content is released.

I hope that clears up our approach to putting mounts in the game, and explains a bit about how we handle exclusivity around those mounts.

-eric
Teal deer: PvE swag is an exclusive model, but remains obtainable indefinitely so that even scrubs can get cool exclusive stuff once the bosses it drops from are no longer the hardest ones in the game. Contrarily, PvP swag is only available for a brief time, but reskins of it become available through alternate avenues.
I'm not asking for the same darned thing. I'm asking for a reskin. A RESKIN, PEOPLE. Reskins seem to be what this game runs on.

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MitchPB
02.10.2015 , 08:00 PM | #53
Quote: Originally Posted by Xelereth View Post
Yeah it would be really good if the pve people would stick to the pve section and talk about the stuff they have knowledge about over there and let the pvp people talk with our knowledge over here on our section. Happy life.
Real crime to do both aye
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cassiussfett
02.10.2015 , 08:13 PM | #54
yeah glad to hear about but, .. that lightsaber with its hilt such as eighteen century pirate sword, is not STAR WARS,

I know you guys tried to give RIshi this kind of look, but I actually avoided to use all this stuff, when I passed over there, insted disarmed it and used the parts to improve my Cartel market gear, because this is STAR WARS and not ASSASSIN CREED IV ( great game, but please donīt mix universe, I īd hate to see in the future Cow boys gear on ziost or something similar.

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AxeDragoneth
02.10.2015 , 09:49 PM | #55
Quote: Originally Posted by cassiussfett View Post
yeah glad to hear about but, .. that lightsaber with its hilt such as eighteen century pirate sword, is not STAR WARS,

I know you guys tried to give RIshi this kind of look, but I actually avoided to use all this stuff, when I passed over there, insted disarmed it and used the parts to improve my Cartel market gear, because this is STAR WARS and not ASSASSIN CREED IV ( great game, but please donīt mix universe, I īd hate to see in the future Cow boys gear on ziost or something similar.
You were saying?
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Devilk
02.10.2015 , 10:26 PM | #56
I hope your mount reward is not a pirate ship themed monstrosity.

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cmlfree
02.11.2015 , 12:13 AM | #57
Quote: Originally Posted by AlexModny View Post
Sorry vemonlash, these rewards are exclusive to Season 4 but I'll pass your hilt desires on to the CM team!
NO JUST NO.... HOW *********** DARE YOU EVEN SUGGEST THIS ********... IF YOU OPEN UP PVP REWARDS TO PVE'ers YOU BETTER GIVE PVP'ERS ACCESS TO ALL THE **** THEY GAVE PVE'ERS MONEY... MOUNTS... CRAFTING MATS... GEAR AND ALL THE OTHER ****... PVPers PAY THE SAME *********** SUB PRICE AND YET BW SEEMS TO THING THAT WE ARE LESSER CITTIZENS.... NO YOU NEED TO TREAT PVP AT THE SAME LEVEL AS PVE'ers..

when I spoke to Damian Sherbet at the cantina tour in San Diego back in 2013, he showed nothing but contempt for the PVP community, citing WOW as a mile marker for their lack of devolvement in PVP to that point... sadly I dismissed this early arrogance to one person, however I have now learned that this is not limited to one person but the entire SWTOR group. and while I hate to be one of those ******es to say well WOW did.... but they compare them selves to WOW 7 years after WOWs release (10+ now I believe) in short IF they want to take that road they need to be better than WOW, NOW not then...
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DarthDymond
02.11.2015 , 12:31 AM | #58
Quote: Originally Posted by cmlfree View Post
NO JUST NO.... HOW *********** DARE YOU EVEN SUGGEST THIS ********... IF YOU OPEN UP PVP REWARDS TO PVE'ers YOU BETTER GIVE PVP'ERS ACCESS TO ALL THE **** THEY GAVE PVE'ERS MONEY... MOUNTS... CRAFTING MATS... GEAR AND ALL THE OTHER ****... PVPers PAY THE SAME *********** SUB PRICE AND YET BW SEEMS TO THING THAT WE ARE LESSER CITTIZENS.... NO YOU NEED TO TREAT PVP AT THE SAME LEVEL AS PVE'ers..
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Nightblazer
02.11.2015 , 12:33 AM | #59
Quote: Originally Posted by venomlash View Post
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell me that the rapier-hilted lightsaber model will be coming to the game in other ways! I don't PvP (I'm a groupfinder hero PuG-lord) but I want one of those so bad...
Can we get a reskin of that weapon in an upcoming Cartel Market pack, or as a rare drop from an endgame boss, or from the Rishi rep vendor?
I disagree, PVP should have unique designs / rewards that make it worth while to do PVP and separate it from PVE rewards and vice versa, if a really cool looking design is only on PVE reward like drop or market pack, it should stay that way.

This way if you really want the item, you'll do PVP to get it or PVE depending on what item you want. This creates a desire to do one or the other to get the item.

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cmlfree
02.11.2015 , 12:49 AM | #60
Quote: Originally Posted by DarthDymond View Post
Whoa. Can I get a "u mad bro" up in here?
Well actually, no not really, just looking for a medium that that will actually get through to the DEVs after being **** on for 3 years... its not like they removed PVE content... yet alone in "the biggest PVP update yet", or gave PVE'ers content in every patch... and claimed that class balance, which they ignored for HOW long, was for PVP, I'm not mad, I don't even want 100% attention, just 50% attention, because PVPers pay the same price as PVEers is that too much too ask... also IF you are gonna quote me... that's cool but make sure you use the WHOLE quote... because my story about the cantina tour in SD is just as important as my rant (if that is what you want to call it)
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