Should items previously tied to physical purchases become available in-game again?

[Rokke]

with the exception of cait sith’s plush & shiva’s statue, none XIV’s SE store items have ever sold out quickly. You had several years to get the carbies/post moogle, CDs, and artbooks, most were still in stock on SE’s site even up till the day their codes expired. If SE wanted to reintroduce more into the gem they could just rerelease the merch with a new batch of codes.

I don’t think there’s any justifiable bragging rights about “I was able to pre-order the Shiva statue before it went OOP, and I am more entitled to the Diamond Dust emote than Little Timmy over there because he just wasn’t fast enough at pre-ordering such a limited stock item”.

There were 3 waves of Shiva spread across multiple weeks, with the first wave preorder lasting a month. If Timmy wasn’t “fast enough" to get her, he didn’t want her lol