PvP rewards preview

[Kevin]

Sooo...  I pvp a lot, kill a lot of enemies, massively 'pwnzor,' and get some cool items.

... but then I go play Baldur's Gate II for a week, log back on, and see that my rank dropped and I can't use any of my cool items. 

Which might as well be a non-factor for people who keep playing and playing and playing and playing and playing and playing and playing and playing and playing and playing and playing forever. 

But I get and play new games, go to work, read books, go do other things, etc. for a good chunk of my time.  I was under the impression that Blizzard was trying to lessen the penalties on casual gamers. 

Summary:  Rank requirement not cool.  If you have the item, then you have reached that pinnacle and ought to be able to reap the rewards without trolling for fights for most of your play time.
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Being casual game friendly and ignoring the hardcore gamers are not one in the same. So you will only be able to realistically maintain ranks 1-5 as a casual gamer. This is where 90%+ of the players are going to be from what I was reading. Since they said they assumed that no one was going to get to the officer ranks without a lot honorable PvP time over several weeks. I'm interpreting their higher ranks as the Officer ranks. It isn't going to be that after the first week the top PvP is now rank 14, there is still a minimum honor level to get that rank, and the minimum only gets higher as more people PvP it seems. A casual gamer isn't going to get out of the rank and file levels to the really cool rewards anyway. I'm also assuming the the lower ranks are more based on the honor you have not how much more you have than the next guy so I doubt those rewards will be lost as much.

Sure the really cool rewards aren't for casual gamers, but right now they are about the only rewards in the game a casual gamer can't get to.