So what is the reasoning behind the removal of the unique tournament rewards... | Forums

[Burn-The-Sinner]

... and replacing them with a single common lame one across all heroes?

[Xinlyfenne]

They said it was so you could recognize who was a tourney winner, since the ornament is standardized.

[Vakris_One]

My guess is because they couldn't dedicate enough time or resources to making new ornaments for this upcoming Season so they decided to downgrade the ornaments for a mode that very few people play anyway.

The problem with that approach is that it is self defeating. You want more people playing the mode but all you offer them is unique cosmetics and nothing else. Most people get turned off from it since it isn't a well designed mode and it's not worth the hassle and the mode becomes tumbleweed city. In answer to that they stop spending their efforts even on the cosmetics. Instead of making the mode more accessible and pilling on more incentives to play it such as more XP, steel, loot, events, etc. they decided to completely shut down what little work was being put into it in the first place.

[Vakris_One]

They said it was so you could recognize who was a tourney winner, since the ornament is standardized.

Lol. That should be a meme by now. They used the exact same excuse with Faction War ornaments. It's a marketing answer designed to blow smoke up our a**es. The truth is they decided they couldn't keep making 18 unique ornaments every Season so from now on they will make 1 copy/paste job while bull****ing their players with "so you can recognise the winners."

Because Wardens walking around with helmet plumes, Orochi with gold arches and PK's with golden leaf crowns are completely unrecognisable as ranked rewards..... royyight.... At least be honest about things Ubi, bull****ing tends to anger your playerbase unnecessarily.

[Burn-The-Sinner]

They said it was so you could recognize who was a tourney winner, since the ornament is standardized.

Call me stupid, but that still doesn't making any sense on why ditch the old rewards...

[Burn-The-Sinner]

Besides that, if they truly want to make something recognizable, make an exclusive special effect. Like an aura over your head or something like that...

[Xinlyfenne]

Call me stupid, but that still doesn't making any sense on why ditch the old rewards...

For that I think they want the rewards to be "rare" i.e. only those who have won them previously will have them. Since this is the case I'd assume that this season's will disappear next time,

[Burn-The-Sinner]

And what of the new players they so wanted to attract? Screw them.

[Orisoll]

To me it seems like they're shifting a lot of resources around in order to focus on the big stuff they'll be revealing at E3. If it's between unique ornaments for playing a dead game mode and brand new heroes/game modes, I'll take the latter.

[justinhntr]

I don't like it. I wish I still had a chance to get them.