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It may not be convenient to you, but it sure would be for many others. Let's start with an example, the moogle quests. The majority opinion is that these were unpleasant to do, while also holding very little story value. If we had a huge button that said "skip me" that would boost your level to the amount you'd be after having done the said moogle quests, that would be convenience. Of course this would be a poor implementation, the proper way to do it would be to boost the amount of EXP gained from the MSQ so you didn't have to put yourself through the tedious moogle quests, again "the state of being able to proceed with something without difficulty" - putting myself through those quests was difficult to bare through due to tedium in my experience, so being able to skip those would have been, you guessed it, convenient.

Now let's talk player expectations, locking this convenient option behind a paywall is a big no-no, a standard has been set for pay to play MMOs and developers must follow these standards or otherwise suffer through the rather large hit in PR, and potentially losing many, many subscribers which of course is not the desired result. With less players you'd be making less money, and with no players you'd have no one to sell these options to. You're right, you could pull through a variety of pre existing items, but that is not something that has been accepted by the playerbase, nor is it something SE wishes to toy with as of yet. They did try it with Odin's steed, but as you may know there was heavy backlash. Tell me, have we gotten any other cash shop exclusive mounts since then? No, all the nicer ones were obtainable within game. Lesser panda? We already have minions in the cash shop, and if it had been in the cash shop to begin with it would have been accepted because again, this is a standard that they've found out they can get away with, with very minimal negative effects at that.

Tell me, if someone's endgame was focused so heavily on glamour, would they not want the return of the event or the gear? Even if it was buyable only, would that not provide that with satisfaction knowing that they have not only a new set, but pieces they can mix and match? I say this because you seem to be against not only the return of the items on the cash shop, but the return of the items in the event. You're both against people paying for the items, and yet against them obtaining in the method you deem fair. I am not someone who can tell that their endgame wasn't infringed upon (but if your endgame relies solely on events then that's another subject. If it's glamours then it's but a small part of the whole), but you know who is? Square Enix, they have set the precedent of selling these items on the cash shop, time and time again. Go take a look at the cash shop, all of those items were once in the game and required time and effort (only a tad bit of both) to obtain, and yet what do you know? They're in the cash shop. This isn't something I'm deciding, it's something the developers are.

In the case of people unable to purchase the items due to being strapped for cash or unable to access a credit card, there's always the option of bringing the event back that once again, you are opposed to. You would rather have they didn't take that one day reimplementing that event and worked on something else, even though that other thing might take 30 days. You are the one withholding this glamour from people who's endgame is glamour, you are the one opposed to putting these back up for free.
You know full well I'm referring to fair in other matters, not in terms of price but in terms of gameplay impact. If the Lightning set had 1 million of every stat, that wouldn't be fair, that is how pay to win is defined, and please, you know full well that time spent playing a game is not equivalent to time spend working so I don't know why you're attempting to throw that out there.

It's become quite clear that you do care for the special snowflake status associated with having items other people do not, no matter you're saying otherwise. You do not want to give players the ability to purchase the items, nor do you want to give them the ability to earn them through the event. That's ignoring the fact that you derailed conversation from an ingame item that is useless being pay to win, to going into the details of what can be considered pay for convenience. I felt it was a more appropriate title and so I gave it just that, a more appropriate title. Pay for glamour, does that make you happy? I sure hope so.