No holiday tree?

Serious question for the community reps; Are the three trees in the dats planned for the cash shop?

If they are, please go back to the developers and slap them in the face for me. I'm not even joking... Season of giving... Great job SquarEnix...

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Originally Posted by Alberel

It's in the game files but not listed as an event reward... so pretty safe bet they cut the tree to sell in the cash shop for extra. It's getting ridiculous...

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Or you know...

It's an object to be placed in the world. Did you know? The rocks you see in many zones are also in the dats? I guess that's cut to be put in the cash shop too.

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Originally Posted by Nalien

I'm not even joking... Season of giving... Great job SquarEnix...

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Like it says in the Gift Bag description: "during this season of giving, it is the thought that counts" - ie, they think we'll give them our money.

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Originally Posted by Tupsi

Or you know...

It's an object to be placed in the world. Did you know? The rocks you see in many zones are also in the dats? I guess that's cut to be put in the cash shop too.

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http://xivdb.com/?item/8823/Star-top...light-Sentinel

A potted fir, decorated with a star-shaped ornament at its apex. ※Only one Starlight sentinel may be placed in a single estate, regardless of type.

It's not a world object. It's a piece of furniture.

Weird thing is, if you look at XIVDB you see that the trees were meant to be obtained by turning in fallen stars obtainable during the event. However on the official event site there are no signs of the trees. So if they put it in cash shop now it is clear they cut it from the game to just make an extra few bucks.

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Originally Posted by Evenstar

Weird thing is, if you look at XIVDB you see that the trees were meant to be obtained by turning in fallen stars obtainable during the event. However on the official event site there are no signs of the trees. So if they put it in cash shop now it is clear they cut it from the game to just make an extra few bucks.

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XIVDB parses the dats deeper than what SE's site does because SE doesn't want to throw in "spoilers", the people who run XIVDB doesn't care. Fyi, if it were to be in the cash shop it would have been added in the 2.45 update to the mog station.

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Originally Posted by Evenstar

So if they put it in cash shop now it is clear they cut it from the game to just make an extra few bucks.

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"Holy crap, people are buying up weddings like crazy..."
"Quick! Cut those trees from the Starlight event and put them in the cash shop!"

Hopefully it's just an oversight, but they haven't given me much reason to assume that lately...

Lets just not jump to conclusions.

Its called a Christmas tree, no need for your fancy political correct BS around here.

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Originally Posted by Tupsi

XIVDB parses the dats deeper than what SE's site does because SE doesn't want to throw in "spoilers", the people who run XIVDB doesn't care. Fyi, if it were to be in the cash shop it would have been added in the 2.45 update to the mog station.

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Until now ALL events had listed ALL items you could obtain when the event page went online. So that point is not really valid. Like I said, if they add it to the cash shop it is going to be really clear they cut it from the game (since XIVDB clearly shows it was inteded to be a part of the event). That is where I, someone that actually supports the cash shop, draw the line.

As long as we have people still defending ALL the choices Square Enix makes and as long as we have people that keep shouting "it is optional anyway" they will keep abusing the system.