This is just appalling

[doglord]

The community really brought this situation on itself. Some of you may recall that a few years back, a character named Lightning would occasionally drop into Eorzea. This was extremely successful and we had a number of new players who missed these clamoring for the next Lightning event

However, a vocal minority of players who had already participated in the Lightning event insisted that Lightning should stay out of Eorzea forever. And the developers listened, for whatever reason, and threw the Lightning gear on the mog station instead, where the hordes of Lightning fans no doubt bought it as a sort of consolation prize.

Now, look at this from the perspective of a Square Enix executive: They see players loudly demanding that they don't want anymore world events, and at the same time, those same (apparently) players are buying huge amounts of gear off the Mog Station. I have no doubt that YoshiP is being ordered at this very moment to cut back on cool new world events and spend more time selling knick-knacks and baubles for the Mog Station, and it's all because you guys didn't want Lightning to Return to Eorzea.

[HyoMinPark]

Now, look at this from the perspective of a Square Enix executive: They see players loudly demanding that they don't want anymore world events, and at the same time, those same (apparently) players are buying huge amounts of gear off the Mog Station. I have no doubt that YoshiP is being ordered at this very moment to cut back on cool new world events and spend more time selling knick-knacks and baubles for the Mog Station, and it's all because you guys didn't want Lightning to Return to Eorzea.

Mmm. Cash shop existed before the Lightning and Snow Attire was ever added into it. Just want to throw that out there.

Also, I'm guessing you missed the threads asking for a FFXV crossover event, and a Nier crossover event. Last year we had Yokai (as insane and painful a grind as it was). This year we have the still-ongoing Garo event (also a grind, but at least its PvP and not FATEs). With regards to Yokai and Garo, SE could have very easily just made a deal with the respective producers to throw the items up in the cash shop (with the Garo gear being level 1 glamour sets), but instead, they were added in-game as months-long events.