Why are the Prishe Boots+1 time gated?

[Fawkes]

I randomly happened upon one of the KIs but didn't really know what to do next.

It was seemingly related to the FFXIV raid, although I don't know if they presented it as such. You had to zone into each of the 4 areas where the raid takes place.

[Sarya]

I was missing the Ru'Aun key item so I mostly rushed through RotZ but was forced to take a break for 2-3 days (which I didn't mind since from what I had gathered this would most likely stay active once you have the original boots)
Lo and behold I unlocked and zoned into Ru'Aun for the first time today... then a second time... then a third time... then it sank in...

[Krogoth]

Don't worry, it was broken before too. I picked up the boots but couldn't get KIs even when the campaign was on. Figured I'd sort it out later. womp womp.

[Dragoy]

A thread about this has appeared on the Japanese side as well, in case anyone wants to follow that too:

プリッシュブーツをHQにするためのだいじなものが入手できない

[Alhanelem]

I think we deserve an explanation from SE on this one. I can not find any evidence of a specific date range to be able to perform the steps needed to +1 the Prishe Boots given by SE in any news post.

[Darkshade]

Would be nice... probably won't happen though...

[BobbinT]

well... this kinda sucks if true, especially considering the effort to make +1 involves journey related to the quite recent added alliance raid in FF14, with places needs to visit would be same as with its counterparts.

I did finish my +1, but mainly due to nostalgic-driven from what I said above.

Really weird making this event a time-gated if true, considering all that. Hope they fix this.

[radar]

It's really blatantly obvious they coded it to be an event that was linked to the boots being on the login item list, and when they bring them back the event will come back with it.

[Alhanelem]

It's really blatantly obvious they coded it to be an event that was linked to the boots being on the login item list, and when they bring them back the event will come back with it.

Yeah, well there's no guarantee that they'll do that.