Exclusive is only exclusive for as long as the company says it is. Can't even really compare it with Feast rewards since PVP is rife with cheating, boosting and win-trading, to say nothing of alts clogging up the leaderboard (not everyone, mind you, but it happens, which makes competition for those things pretty stale).

As we've seen from countless other things -- mog costume (once "exclusively" for Fan Fest attendees) and other Mog Station items (once available in-game for free, now available again for a fee), exclusivity doesn't always mean forever.

It's a sad fact that very few people who are playing now care about what you went through back in 1.0 to get that item. Just like people now don't care about how hard it was to get the Dreadwyrm stuff back in the day. It's easily craftable now. Doesn't diminish what you went through at the time to get it, but just realize that everything you work for in game may very well eventually become available for very little effort.

You can at least take some comfort in the memories you created along the way... those last longer than any video game pixels anyway.