The real treasure are all those PUG friends who you met while was chasing the Calamitous duneripper all over the Parch

Well, I think the faction rewards have to be minor. Just because the winner faction is one that simply gathered the masses.

What I would like to see is something I could spend my favor on. That would really be the reward for personal contribution.
The current system "open for favor, buy for gold" has its own pros, but it makes favor just useless after 10k.

The rewards were pathetic.

I'll chime back in on this with a couple of thoughts. Broadly speaking, I had a pretty good time in Night Market. I got a lot of uncollected gear on a couple of accounts (stickerbook was pretty full on my main account, so almost completely decon fodder). I certainly hope ZOS takes a closer look at the sets dropping from those coffers before Season Two gets here because none of them were particularly useful outside of filling the stickerbook and deconning.

I didn't feel any compulsion to grind anything to completion other than the three relics. I'd drop in for 30 minutes or less, melt and get melted by bosses (both are kind of fun in their own perverse way), collect my two glorious coffers, and go back to whatever I was doing when the number of group members started dropping off. For the two EU accounts who didn't unlock anything (never cleared 1K favor, I don't think), there is always Season Two. But the two NA accounts got the house and all three wings, one dug up 2.6 Shattered Path Signets (the last two leads just refused to drop, so I'll try to snag them in Coldharbour while I've got a character doing that zone) and one has all the leads, but lacks a character who can scry them (got a year to take care of that).

The end-of-event reward coffer wasn't anything to write home about, but didn't feel like a slap in the face. One of my EU toons got a Monster Helm set that they can't equip (still need to gain one or two levels - EDIT: it dropped at their level when they opened the rewards rather than the usual CP10+ for Monster Helms) and both of them got furnishings for a house that they don't have (Night's Den is not what I would call a "convenient" house, but I can at least dump furnishings there). The NA accounts got usable Monster Helm pieces that they probably won't use (but "oooo! Shiny!" as Ember might say), and neither was hurting for a house so Night's Den was mostly gravy.

All in all, I don't feel particularly robbed since I had a good time and it was the good time which was the whole point for me, anyway.

I didn't bother with the trial so at least the helmet is theoretically useful.

tomofhyrule wrote: »

Are people really surprised?

Yes, they are.

That's how it goes with everything.

ZOS plans on making a new thing and says "it will be like this."
ZOS starts doing that and makes an official page explaining "it will be like this."
ZOS adds it to PTS so people can verify "it will be like this."
ZOS mentions it in PTS patch notes every time that "it will be like this."
ZOS has an official thread on the forums explaining "it will be like this."
When it goes live, ZOS has update patch notes stating "it is like this."
And after all this, when people see it is like this, their reaction:

My favourite rewards were the house with guild bank access and the DLC motif pages that dropped from the golden boxes

The mail is literally just a small bonus. The actual rewards are the patterns, furnishings, time spent engaging with with content, and of course, the house.
Not sure why anyone expected more than a token difference between winning and losing faction rewards.

I was surprised that I received rewards because all I did was just what I needed to get the house.

Gabriel_H wrote: »

Reginald_leBlem wrote: »

The mail is literally just a small bonus. The actual rewards are the patterns, furnishings, time spent engaging with with content, and of course, the house.
Not sure why anyone expected more than a token difference between winning and losing faction rewards.

Which returns to my question and point: I only have two things left to do there in the future. Get 10,000 favour for the other two factions. So what incentive do I have to go beyond that and spend every day there, helping strangers, populating the instance?

ZOS have mentioned on one of their livestreams they're adding some new stuff, and there's likely to be some more associated achievements... they didn't give any specifics or details though. So yes, I do expect there'll be more for you to do next time around, but we're waiting on official confirmation and detail as to what that will be.

Gabriel_H wrote: »

Reginald_leBlem wrote: »

The mail is literally just a small bonus. The actual rewards are the patterns, furnishings, time spent engaging with with content, and of course, the house.
Not sure why anyone expected more than a token difference between winning and losing faction rewards.

Which returns to my question and point: I only have two things left to do there in the future. Get 10,000 favour for the other two factions. So what incentive do I have to go beyond that and spend every day there, helping strangers, populating the instance?

It's fun? I don't know what to tell you. I had fun playing with my friends, and getting loot from the gold boxes. I helped several friends and strangers get their relics, and we got a solid number of guild mates their no-death run in OO.

If you don't find the content fun, don't care about the patterns or furnishings in the gold boxes, and don't like playing with others than I don't think there will end of the campaign rewards enticing enough to draw you in.

code65536 wrote: »

freespirit wrote: »

I totally agree that the final rewards seem a bit messed up.

Many of my guildies worked really hard to get themselves able to enter the trial, purposely to get the Monster head piece.

I did literally nothing and got it anyway, that is a bit unfair in my book.

If you want to collect all three weights, you'll need to run the trial three times. With this mail, however, you'll only need to run it twice (it's curated). Given how difficult it can be to organize the trial, I think it was important for the head piece to be just a little more accessible.

Getting this set in the mail was a big deal for me. I ran the trial twice, and even though it was an interesting trial, sort of unique, I had to pug it each time and it took many hours to get the clears. For others it might not be considered a great reward, but none of my guilds were organizing any runs (I left those guilds btw) and it got me stickerbook completion.