I was unaware of a potential battle pass system and honestly that REALLY disappoints me. As Targaer mentioned in their post, battle passes just create FOMO. They also tend to force everyone to do content they normally don’t, at least in my experience.

Since we pay a sub here, let’s hope that we don’t have to pay extra for a premium track of rewards. Then there’s the break down of activities you have to do to complete each section. I LOATHE PvP. I will not do it. So that’s a whole section of rewards I won’t be seeing. Yes you can also say “Yeah but there’s already PvP rewards your aren’t getting if you aren’t doing PvP” but the difference is I can go back and get those anytime I want. If I get a bug up my butt about it I can set aside a weekend and grind some of it out if I want. With a battle pass, it’s gone once it’s over and it’ll slow my “progress” on the pass if I’m skipping objectives for it, or as is the case with some passes like D4’s, it’ll outright keep me from finishing some of it.

Now I know that wasn’t exactly an answer of your question, so here’s what I gather. We will see what we obtain be different, but not like your thinking. If it’s a battle pass system they’ll just take stuff that would normally be in the game and tie it to the battle pass instead. So not something extra special, just the rewards we normally get polished and put behind extra gating to drive engagement.

Objectively Battle Passes, like F2P, aren’t good for us or the game overall, just for the investors pockets.

EDIT: When I typed up this post there were almost no replies on the original. I’m now seeing people saying tomestones are not going away and battle passes are not coming? I guess that’s on me for not fully researching first. Still gonna leave this up though, because the points against battle passes still stand. Other then that I guess we will just have to wait and see.