The Many Deaths of Final Fantasy XIV

[Merle]

If you did the event and got the achievement you can reclaim it from the salvager like any other event item. Otherwise, Yoshida stated last year it was ONLY like this in order to give the people who did not play FFXIV 1.0 the ability to gain the Summer, halloween and xmas event items as most of the event items in game are from 1.0.

It was never going to stay that way permanently, which is why the salvager sells them incase you accidentally toss the items (or toss em for space because too lazy to use the armoire.)

Ah, i see. My bad then.

And yes, Violyre, that's precisely what it scares me: "pay to win". If is just for vanity items... i'm ok with it (my wallet will regret it, though...), but if this becomes "buy X to have an extra buff", etc... i'm out of FFXIV... and it will make me sad since i love this game