this is the same as the Legacy chocobo, the gobbue, or the horn. You will not get it, they are belong to legacy only, ask for something else, something new instead of ask for the thing you can't get
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It is not the same as the mounts, no. The mounts and horn actually required you to play the game a significant amount. The tattoo could literally be by a level 1 that someone created during the time period then never came back to again. It means nothing other than you were 'in' on knowing about 1.0 and poked it at the right time.
If you wernt there you didnt get this once in a lifetime item as a thank you for supporting the game its really that simple.
Yet for some reason people cant grasp that and is now demanding it to be put on the cashshop like some average joe item.
I dont have the tatoo and i reject putting it there.
And not knowing the game existed is not an excuse cause there would have been plenty of websites listing 1.0 as a mmo.
If you read above it literally did not mean that you supported the game. It meant that you /logged in/ during a specific time period. Nothing more. You could have logged in during the free period to get it for free. No support needed, just downloading it. Launching it. Making a character. Closing it. The end. Tattoo get.
The same could be said about event items, and even housing. Yet the event items will be put in the cash shop, and there will be more housing wards in the future.
Technically the carteneau tattoo was from an event. It signified nothing else other than one logged into the game at a certain time (like the current event cash shop items).
There is no big separator there other than this event happened a long time ago, before most of the current playerbase played the game.
You have that regardless of any tattoo. The few NPCs (Cid and the Wandering Minstrel at least, possibly others) who didn't completely lose their memory of the Warriors of Light who fought there will recognize your character from that time. Some players got to play through that section of the story and the rest of us just got it as backstory, but our characters were there regardless.
The tattoo, as well as the special chocobo, are thank you gifts from SE to the players who were around during 1.0. There may be little tidbits of lore explaining them (I know there is for the chocobo, anyway), but it's not like the overall story changes for not having that little tidbit.