Quote Originally Posted by Paladinleeds View Post
So, assuming you could even get the whales to stop buying them, that wouldn't make them available in-game. Square Enix would just stop making them available full stop. We'd get them for the event and if we missed the event tough luck, never being made available again. Same for the mog station exclusive outfits and stuff that was never made available in-game. If they weren't released there, we just wouldn't get them period.
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You have no idea how they would've handled old seasonal stuff if there was no cash shop, only one seasonal event ran for its second year before the cash shop was on its way in and said seasonal event had items from the previous year.

If anything we actually lost something, all seasonal furniture used to be tradeable the following patch after the event, but they decided to keep all items market prohibited so the marketboard wouldn't compete with the cash shop.