Quote Originally Posted by Ilitsa View Post
And we'd both be right, how bout that. You can't cherry pick though, either all exclusives need to be made available, or none. Which is it?
Once again, you are disregarding context. People received exclusive stuff in 1.0 only because the game was dreadful and they essentially wasted money. There are always some understandable exceptions. Stuff like say, Lightning's gear, is not one of them. That isn't cherry picking because the circumstances differ.

Quote Originally Posted by Sakuraluna View Post
I think, for me anyways, that it's more a matter of all players being on equal footing than any one player being a special snowflake over another. One group of players being given exclusive items while other groups either are never given exclusivity or have exclusivity taken away from them on a regular basis would imply favoritism. I would be fine with either all exclusives (including physical merchandise, region locked, and 1.0 exclusives, being released or with no exclusives ever being re-released, but I'm not big on the idea of any one item being devalued for any one group regardless if I have the item myself. (And there are many I don't have.)
This wouldn't be favouritism though, as that implies bias. SE releasing content that hasn't been available for years is merely extending it to players who either weren't subbed or haven't even played. I don't agree with exclusivity because I don't see any need of it, especially when the items are generally just novelty gear. There are exceptions, of course, like I outlined above.