Quote Originally Posted by Evergrey View Post
Like others have said, buy the statue for the statue, the emote is just a bonus. For when the time comes that FFXIV closes its doors for good you still have the statue that you wanted to buy, but not the emote you wanted to buy and now is gone forever.
The emote is an incentive to buy the Statue actually, if they didn't add the Emote to it, then it wouldn't sell at all.