Lightning/Snow Event

[Wildsprite]

The best solution is to add it to the cash shop or Gold Saucer

cash shop=not happening unless they remove the stats from the gear.
They have said multiple times no stats on any items in the cash shop ever. I personally would like to see them to stick to that stance.
Golden Saucer=I still think a good idea would be to add mock up versions of the FATEs as GATEs so people can earn the gear. it wouldn't be difficult to add NPCs that let you get the gear while the GATE is up.

[Noxifer]

cash shop=not happening unless they remove the stats from the gear.

Which wouldn't really be that difficult to do ^^; They've added copies of gear to Mogstation before (old Xmas outfit, made untradeable to prevent people from selling them on to others), so it's not unprecedented.

But I agree that it would be suitable for Gold Saucer; considering how eager that reporter seemed to be during the event, it wouldn't be too out of the blue to have them go "well, we (read Manderville family) managed to borrow/buy them off an adventurer, and made replicas so we can make loads of money and draw even more people to our casino. win/win for us" ^_~