Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25074480-20141118030025/@comment-25467429-20141118192143

I did overstate it a little, but that was my point - some of the skins and emplems were given away before, so it's not a surprise that it's something they've considered at least as far as challenges go.

The annual repeat is an interesting idea, but I doubt there will be enough interest in the game year-over-year to keep something like that up more than one year, if that. Not many games can maintain interest over such a protracted period, and I don't know they'll put forth the resources to keep the servers up and running, especially if they eventually make a new game. But if they do, that's great. Will be a bit of a pain waiting a whole year for a new chance at some stuff that've been missed, but that would make this a very accessible game for late/newcomers since they will eminently have the chance to reach top-tiers without as severe a penalty for coming to the series late. Lost of MMOs tend to lack this aspect (I mention MMOs because the style of gameplay here is most similar to that).

I have heard the DLC rumor before, but that strikes me as a "last ditch" effort type thing, where they decide that they're not going to keep active support going for very much longer, either because they want to move to their next game, or they don't see enough sustained interest and want to get a final sweep of money and give everyone a chance to own their favorite thing before the end. I could be wrong obviously - that's just they way it seems to me. But, like I mentioned about any means of giving away tournament prizes at a later time, there are surely some who will be unhappy if PA doesn't make it similarly hard to get those items given how much effort (and more importantly money) was spent on getting them through those tournaments. It's a question of how many people will be upset, and if Bandai Namco and PA are willing to endure whatever that level of discontent is.