Past Seasonal Items and Achievements

Other threads have said what I've been saying (or similar ideas) on this message board for quite some time now (see below), but in summary, here's my suggestion:

Replace past event item vendors from seasonal events during the current year version (and for good measure, make the achievement available for the recompense vendor, including the Lightning, FFXI, and Dragon Quest crossovers, and THOSE TITLES).

My rationale has been stated before, but I am a hopeless completionist when it comes to these things, and they don't go away. I'm willing to work for those old items, but to not have a chance at them at all is irreconcilable.

AND BEFORE someone comes and preaches about the exclusivity of those things and how it's a REAL achievement... please. Just stop. If you want to discuss your achievements, be on the bleeding edge of PvP and savage modes. I'll even cheer you on! Good luck! You're great!

But yeah:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...t-of-Cash-Shop
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...d-Achievements
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...m-Achievements
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...triot-s-Choker.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...to-Mog-Station

No need to be rude or diminish your gaming style (publicly, I might be judging you right now and you'll never know!!), but the whole completionist thing is a problem you have to just deal with, this is not a single player game, is an MMO and in my eye it's kinda cool that some things stay forever unacchievable after they are gone, nothing against people who don't have them, but it would diminish the value for people who have these items who would be tied forever to them experiencing such event, unlike getting them after because you just need to have everything.
It sucks for completionists I know but completionism is a thing for single player games not MMOs.

For achievements you have to do the quest

Yea I'm going to give this a HARD nope! Soz.

You have been around since 2013. You had more than a month and many times to complete these events. You made your bed. Sleep in it until the Dev's decide to bring it back one day out of the goodness of their hearts.

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Originally Posted by Insidion

AND BEFORE someone comes and preaches about the exclusivity of those things and how it's a REAL achievement... please. Just stop. If you want to discuss your achievements, be on the bleeding edge of PvP and savage modes. I'll even cheer you on! Good luck! You're great!

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You cannot silence counter arguments on a forum. Your poor choice of words only sends an open invitation for them.

You don't even have the second Yokai mount which is hardly an indication of completionist. That event was over 2 months long, there was enough time to get it and all associated achievements. The same can be said about all events.

You missed the event, get over it. I have missed events too but no reason to demand you have access to it, it was a limited time and it has since passed. Can't walk into a store a week after Black Friday and complain that you missed the sale.

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Originally Posted by AlphaFox

You missed the event, get over it. I have missed events too but no reason to demand you have access to it, it was a limited time and it has since passed. Can't walk into a store a week after Black Friday and complain that you missed the sale.

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Tell that to white middle-aged mothers.

Completionism sucks. To be sure, it's not a happy feeling. No denying that, Zio.

Felis, I do realize this, hence the search for a solution.

bass9020, what do you stand to lose in opposition of the idea?

Reaperking386 (nice sig btw), you might assume that I've played consistently during that whole time. I haven't. I don't need to go into my reasons why because this isn't solely about me. This would affect everyone else. If I had played since 1.0, gotten each and every limited item along the way, then read a post like this, I wouldn't be opposed.

ReplicaX, to be fair, I'm not confident any choice of words or the absence of of concession-refutation attempts would bear any different fruit. That's been my experience thus far anyway. People are often very negative about ideas or suggestions that do not affect them personally, and that is what confuses me.

SuperZay, wasn't Yo-kai fun? I actually did do it on an alt, but that's another story.

AlphaFox, demand isn't the word for it. Obviously this is a suggestion in the first place, so there's that.

Thanks for the erm... pretty negative responses so far though (*coughs blood*) but I've really yet to hear anyone respond with why they would oppose such an idea. What do you stand to lose? I haven't heard that argument yet. So far the only thing I've ever seen is that bringing some new options in for the old stuff somehow cheapens the achievement of getting it on time, but is it really that big of a deal? I mentioned earlier the things that, to me, seem like things worth being proud of, but something that would literally take 15 minutes of game time during a few weeks of the year back in the day? No... I haven't heard a great defense for this.

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Originally Posted by Insidion

Felis, I do realize this, hence the search for a solution.

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Only solution would be to bring the quests back

And what about all those 1.0 achievements that are in the achievement log? You'd never have all the achievements there if you didn't do them in 1.0.

If you're a completionist you'll be a completionist. There's no grey in-between. You're simply not a completionist.

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Originally Posted by Shippuu

And what about all those 1.0 achievements that are in the achievement log? You'd never have all the achievements there if you didn't do them in 1.0.

If you're a completionist you'll be a completionist. There's no grey in-between. You're simply not a completionist.

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Whether or not you consider me a completionist isn't really the point of the discussion I was attempting to have, but it's clear that I've found little support here for any ideas regardless.