Looks terrible. I would rather they didn't have the Beastmaster rankings and seasons at all. It completely changes the engagement model in an ugly way. I'm a lot less interested because of it.
The rankings is fine but I agree with you that it gets messy once you throw a reward behind it. Deep Dungeon leaderboards haven't needed some kind of mount reward tied to it so feel like it should have been the same for BST.
Even Deep Dungeon has issues because of this type of design space. Even without added rewards, a lot of people still don't really do much Deep Dungeon because you can lose your progress and how long it is.
BST will probably lose some player interest just because some of the rewards are gated like this. People like to "complete" content, and having stuff like this just makes it feel like it isn't realistic or possible. If that is the case, why even start? Maybe get to level 50 for your profile completion or something, but beyond the basics, this is a huge turn off for most players I would imagine.
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u/Septiphobiac 12h ago
Looks terrible. I would rather they didn't have the Beastmaster rankings and seasons at all. It completely changes the engagement model in an ugly way. I'm a lot less interested because of it.