Introduction
Currently we are on Year 2 of Seasonal Reward Trees on the main page of the reward book. There was already a huge outcry when the Year 1 seasonal trees were originally not planning to make a return in Year 2; and I am sure there will be the same outcry when Year 1 & 2 trees are going to disappear forever when Year 3 is about to start.
Suggestion
The best possible way to ‘fix’ this is to make a Reward Book Page for each season – that means 12 Reward Book Pages each dedicated to a specific themed season.
These Reward Book Pages would each contain a General Themed Tree around that specific season, and all the Yearly trees that have been released already and that will be released in the future. These pages would function as a hub for the Lore and information on each Season and people could go back at any time and read the Lore they already unlocked from past Seasonal Trees without all this incredible content just vanishing from the game.
How it would work
There a several options for the operation of this new system.
1. The more player friendly option would be to allow players to unlock nodes from any past and present seasonal trees for the currently active season.
2. If this would severally limit the developers for the future, they could just leave the past trees locked and only the current year tree would be unlockable during a specific season; but players who unlocked past trees would still be able to go back to them and read the Lore they unlocked and marvel at the great art of the past trees.
To avoid confusing new players with old reward trees and them not understanding why they can’t unlock them there is a perfect solution that would at the same time support the game financially.
The 2nd option would present a further option for monetization, introducing a way to buy the seasonal nodes of the older trees and thus allowing even new players to unlock the past reward trees. The standard nodes would be unlockable with reward points and the special seasonal nodes that were linked to specific seasonal tasks in the past could be purchased for a set sum of money that would allow you to still unlock old trees if you so desired.
This way the developers could still sell past season cosmetics in the store and it would be up to the players whether they want to just buy the cosmetics or buy the season tree nodes and unlock the cosmetics by completing the rest of the reward trees with reward points.
This system would also not tie the developers hands if they want to change the seasonal modes in the future as the old quest nodes would only be purchasable and no longer linked to any active quests.
I hope I have not lost anyone and the above makes sense
Conclusion
I would love to hear what others from the community think of this idea; and hope @SlamaTwoFlags and the dev team could consider this option before the end of Year 2 of Gwent.
With Year 3 implementing the new system and releasing a Reward Book Page for each season as the Year progresses and keeping it persistent going forward.
I think this is the best solution to bring together the whole system of Seasonal Reward Trees with each Season having a dedicated hub in the Reward Book and players not losing access to the trees and lore they already unlocked; while at the same time the past reward trees present a perfect additional way for players who missed out on some of the trees to support the game financially, while getting cool rewards of past years.
If you have any questions or would like me to expand on the idea or something is not clear, let me know
Currently we are on Year 2 of Seasonal Reward Trees on the main page of the reward book. There was already a huge outcry when the Year 1 seasonal trees were originally not planning to make a return in Year 2; and I am sure there will be the same outcry when Year 1 & 2 trees are going to disappear forever when Year 3 is about to start.
Suggestion
The best possible way to ‘fix’ this is to make a Reward Book Page for each season – that means 12 Reward Book Pages each dedicated to a specific themed season.
These Reward Book Pages would each contain a General Themed Tree around that specific season, and all the Yearly trees that have been released already and that will be released in the future. These pages would function as a hub for the Lore and information on each Season and people could go back at any time and read the Lore they already unlocked from past Seasonal Trees without all this incredible content just vanishing from the game.
How it would work
There a several options for the operation of this new system.
1. The more player friendly option would be to allow players to unlock nodes from any past and present seasonal trees for the currently active season.
2. If this would severally limit the developers for the future, they could just leave the past trees locked and only the current year tree would be unlockable during a specific season; but players who unlocked past trees would still be able to go back to them and read the Lore they unlocked and marvel at the great art of the past trees.
To avoid confusing new players with old reward trees and them not understanding why they can’t unlock them there is a perfect solution that would at the same time support the game financially.
The 2nd option would present a further option for monetization, introducing a way to buy the seasonal nodes of the older trees and thus allowing even new players to unlock the past reward trees. The standard nodes would be unlockable with reward points and the special seasonal nodes that were linked to specific seasonal tasks in the past could be purchased for a set sum of money that would allow you to still unlock old trees if you so desired.
This way the developers could still sell past season cosmetics in the store and it would be up to the players whether they want to just buy the cosmetics or buy the season tree nodes and unlock the cosmetics by completing the rest of the reward trees with reward points.
This system would also not tie the developers hands if they want to change the seasonal modes in the future as the old quest nodes would only be purchasable and no longer linked to any active quests.
I hope I have not lost anyone and the above makes sense
Conclusion
I would love to hear what others from the community think of this idea; and hope @SlamaTwoFlags and the dev team could consider this option before the end of Year 2 of Gwent.
With Year 3 implementing the new system and releasing a Reward Book Page for each season as the Year progresses and keeping it persistent going forward.
I think this is the best solution to bring together the whole system of Seasonal Reward Trees with each Season having a dedicated hub in the Reward Book and players not losing access to the trees and lore they already unlocked; while at the same time the past reward trees present a perfect additional way for players who missed out on some of the trees to support the game financially, while getting cool rewards of past years.
If you have any questions or would like me to expand on the idea or something is not clear, let me know