SE: Aquamarine Cross - Can't Turn into GC for Seals Anymore? Bug or by design?

I am a 1.0 member. One of the items you get for completing the story was the Aquamarine cross from Limsa's GC. There are equivalent items from Gridania and Ul'dah as well. Well, when 2.0 came out... I never turned it in because I had 40k seals out of 50k. I wanted to save it for when an increase in rank would be available. I would "cash it" in and be able to get my rank.

Well, all of sudden, though it shows the Aquamarine Cross as tradeable to the expert provisioning NPC, as soon as I trade it in for 25k seals, it says "Unable to complete trade."

SE - Have you removed the ability to trade this in? Is there any reason it's no longer available? Is it a bug?

Another trick to force everyone into doing FATEs and to avoid everyone stocking ventures and what not too fast disguised as a bug, so convenient that it hasn't been fixed yet after two hotfixes/small patches.

Does anyone know about the other items too? The Commemorative Coin or Onthe Properties of Beastmen?

I saved OTPOB for exactly the same reason as the OP.

SE says it's a "bug" but it's clearly so people don't gain too many ventures off the bat, which is why it wasn't fixed in this recent 2.21, 2.2 is still fresh and still plenty of FATEs to be spammed.

It was advertised long before 2.0 service began that certain key items would no longer be needed and would be tradable for Grand Company seals. We went into 2.0 expecting to be able to turn this stuff in for seals. Makes not sense to change it all a sudden and not do what was advertised to begin with.

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Originally Posted by WHS

It was advertised long before 2.0 service began that certain key items would no longer be needed and would be tradable for Grand Company seals. We went into 2.0 expecting to be able to turn this stuff in for seals. Makes not sense to change it all a sudden and not do what was advertised to begin with.

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It was working fine 2.0-2.16. It's a known bug that they haven't fixed yet for 2.2-2.21.

Really? It was working fine before patch 2.2 then? How coincidental that it suddenly stopped functioning when it would have been of actual benefit. Expected it to be fixed yesterday, because it was a hotfix and it was left unchanged. There were several small, cosmetic changes added that were omitted from patch notes.

Honestly, between this, ridiculously random atma rate, enforced FATE / mythology grind, mandatory partying and low spawn rate of mobs for a "fun" Easter event and the seemingly forced progression paths of gear for several jobs, I don't know what's up at Square-Enix headquarters these past few weeks. *sigh*

I'm in the same boat. I've the same items but for Gridania. I would like to know when I can trade these in as well.

The Emerald Bough is also in this situation, it even shows up in the expert list as worth 25k seals. I had been saving this for a rainy day but now get an error when trying to redeem.

The Coin doesnt even show up on the list for me.

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Originally Posted by Applesnap

Honestly, between this, ridiculously random atma rate, enforced FATE / mythology grind, mandatory partying and low spawn rate of mobs for a "fun" Easter event and the seemingly forced progression paths of gear for several jobs, I don't know what's up at Square-Enix headquarters these past few weeks. *sigh*

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For the easter events there is, in addition to "open world" spriggans that are spread out all over, FATEs where you can kill lots of the same spriggans for eggs...