Honestly the white raven hard mode used to be very tough back in the day and only the craziest players who did actually commit to the horrible primal/dungeons/hamlet farming in V1.X did get to do it. So as a player who used to play back in the day but didn't complete that particular hard mode, I'd be currently really pissed off by this promotion if I got the earring back in the day.

On the other hand, I don't really think a lot of players who actually did complete that trial back in the day are actually still playing now.