Quote Originally Posted by Alistaire View Post
Doesn't make sense why you'd only do this with the ones that are difficult to obtain. If the others are easy to obtain, then there shouldn't be an issue in letting people keep/move them.
I believe originally one of the reasons for this was to prevent potential theft of said items (since they are hard to obtain), since FC hopping and theft were quite rampant back then (has settled down considerably)