this is not cod and it should not be treated like cod. awarding gear based on kdr and points earned is a very bad idea. conservative play matters and not every player can be the best. not everyone can get the best pvp guns not every person can get into a pvp fireteam. if you punish the players you will drive them away from the game and that will kill the game.

only read the part saying rewards should be based on performance (it's late, I'm tired) but yes I completely agree. They said in TTK players would be rewarded for doing better in crucible yet the only people I'm seeing get [i]legendary[/i] engrams / IB gear are those who don't do as well/terrible. A friend sent me a picture of a scoreboard, he'd entered a match late, got 1 kill and 3 deaths but still got the IB chest piece?? The top people very rarely seem to get rewards.

It honestly seems to be all RNG but it really does get to you when I 226 light with a .14 gets a 303 chest piece.

The problem is how to qualify what "best" is. Is best the player with the top score even if that happens to be attached to a 0.45 k/d? Sure that player may have scored some points but how many points were delivered to the enemy team on a plate with a k/d like that? What about the player that doesn't kill much and finishes with a k/d somewhere in the 2-3 range? Certainly not many points went to the enemy but not much stayed home either and more likely than not orb generation was pretty low as well. Now, imagine [i]if[/i] it were able to actually quantify "best" at match end and it wasn't automatically to the top score. Players would quickly ferret out the metric Bungie used to determine it and those wanting the better rewards would quickly adapt their play to get them...some at the sacrifice of overall victory. No longer will reward-hungry players seek out quality teammates, instead they'll be seeking out the least competent available in order to line their own pockets with the best stuff. That should make for some quality play right there. Now consider the scenario where top score is the sole determining factor for best rewards. As the best players continue to get rewards the casual, lesser, newer, and developing players have to get better before their frustration level rises high enough that they just quit. As that continues to happen and the play gets tougher and tougher (as the frustrated quit) players that were accustomed to getting rewards suddenly find the rewards coming less and less as they've now been moved down the scale because the players beneath them are gone. Eventually players won't just leave PVP, they'll leave the game altogether. This dilution of the player base is exactly what Bungie is trying to avoid.