Replies to threads like these are why I prefer to stay on /r/FFXIV. This is a perfectly fair cash shop model, they're including items you could already obtain if you had a subscription at the time, for free! "But our sub pays for these items" if you weren't subbed at the time they were being created, then no it didn't. Or would you rather they don't add them back in the game at all, so you can never get them? That would entice people to sub when these events are going so they can get the items if they're taking a break, or maybe you'd prefer they add items that were never obtainable in game to make that extra money.

What other P2P game gives users several new sets of items every seasonal event? It sure isn't WoW.