Topic on exclusive items

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Wah! I got the Gobbue legacy mount on one character but not another! Wah, I want to be special!

Sorry, I'll admit sometimes that I'll see someone with event gear that I didn't participate in and I'll wish I had participated...but I'm not gonna complain about it. I just won't miss future events.

The folly of your argument is exclusivity, by its very nature, is feeling special. You have something someone else cannot acquire. So it's amusingly hypocritical to accuse people that wanting that item of "just wanting to be special!" Furthermore, I have to ask. Do you think anyone cares if you've purchased a Collector's Edition? Earlier, you mentioned "some kid" would be able to brag they bought a CE, as though it were some sort of noteworthy achievement. I find that sentiment rather odd.

Yes the "i didn't know about it" isn't a excuse, if you missed it sorry move on with life. Do people go into a store to find out last week the product they want to buy was on sale last week and demand that they get it for that same price cause they didn't know about it? Well working retail I have actually seen that but they are told no they can't get it for the sale price that was selling for week before. Now people will argue that well they can still get just have to pay a higher price, true but even if SE stuck stuff in cash shop then people would complain that the other players got the items for free in the game. So there is really no way to make the people that missed it 100% happy.

This is a rather poor analogy because missing a sale does not prevent me from purchasing the item, whereas advocating for exclusivity does exactly that.