"Firecrest and glass pumpkin are now available for purchase"

[HyoMinPark]

This is something I have never, and will never, understand in games. How exactly does what anyone else does invalidate what you have done? Does it make you forget the feeling you had when you finally beat it (I saw all of your posts of the struggle and your eventual success and you seemed quite over the moon for it, as well you should be). Does it make what you did any less of an accomplishment? When you look back are you going to remember "yay I got an earring" or "wow that content was really hard and WE BEAT IT!"

At the end of the day, you have the best reward of all... the knowledge that you successfully accomplished something that not everyone (and not even a lot of people I would say) has done. If (and I stress that IF) it is really on a vendor, what do they have? A piece of furniture and an earring. I don't know about you, but I would hands down take what you got out of it over what they did.

My issues lie with people wanting rewards without putting forth the effort to obtain them. The post you quoted was merely what I was assuming the individual I had quoted was talking about, not my personal views.

With regards to my success, I am still over the moon about it, and I am using my knowledge of the later floors to try and help others clear the later floors, be it with helpful advice tidbits or actually going in with them myself, as I plan to do with my static and perhaps even a few other people that aren't on my server now that it's cross-server. But again, I think that if people want the shinies, they need to put forth the effort to obtain them. Not just be able to get them for nothing. And this is with regards to everything, not just PotD.