White Raven earring given out at The Rising event 2018

[Jandor]

I like how people are saying it doesn't matter, they're just earrings, no one notices them anyway.

Surely if they're not valuable for their looks, and they're not valuable for their stats, then the only value they have is as a rare memento for 1.0 players who did the fight?

Doesn't feel like anyone benefits from this, upsetting some old 1.0 players in exchange for something the overwhelming majority of 2.0 players didn't know existed, didn't care about and most likely will never use.

[Luna-M]

the only value they have is as a rare memento for 1.0 players who did the fight? .

A fight we did.....6 years ago. We had our momento for 6 years. I don't understand why people cry so much salt about this tbh.

I see people, 1.0 vetarans throw out things like "GIVE THEM ULTIMATE WEAPONS AND TITLES NEXT YEAR" ... really? Gimme a break.

[Jandor]

A fight we did.....6 years ago. We had our momento for 6 years. I don't understand why people cry so much salt about this tbh.

What exactly would be wrong with them being a rare memento till the servers shut down? The lack of supply wasn't hurting anyone, it isn't like 2.0 players were clamoring for this item to be re-released, there wasn't any real demand here.

[Jojoya]

I like how people are saying it doesn't matter, they're just earrings, no one notices them anyway.

Surely if they're not valuable for their looks, and they're not valuable for their stats, then the only value they have is as a rare memento for 1.0 players who did the fight?

Doesn't feel like anyone benefits from this, upsetting some old 1.0 players in exchange for something the overwhelming majority of 2.0 players didn't know existed, didn't care about and most likely will never use.

And yet there were enough players asking for these and similar items from 1.x to be added to the current game that SE is choosing to do it. Only SE knows which number is greater: the players asking for the item to be added or those still playing who had earned it back in 1.0. Considering the items are being added, I suspect the latter is the smaller group.

As someone else said earlier in the thread, people need to stop clinging to items as a source of validation and start getting their validation from what they accomplish.

Are the items a memento of what was achieved? Sure. My Lifebinder's Handmaiden in WoW reminds me that I was part of one of the only three raid teams on my little RP server to clear Heroic Dragon Soul before the MoP pre-launch patch was released.

That achievement can't be taken away from me. Someone else who outlevels and outgears the content can faceroll their way through all the Heroic Dragon Soul bosses tomorrow and get the mount, and it still doesn't change what I accomplished over 6 years ago. I'm happy they're able to get something they want to have. Their access to the mount now doesn't invalidate what I had already done.

Things don't mean anything in the long run. Things are too easily replaced or lost or destroyed. It's what you do that's important.

Congrats to those who killed Nael before Dalamud fell. No one can take that accomplishment away from you.

But throwing a temper tantrum because someone else gets to have a copy of a now useless pair of earrings that you already have? That's just stupid.

[Vaer]

And yet there were enough players asking for these and similar items from 1.x to be added to the current game that SE is choosing to do it. Only SE knows which number is greater: the players asking for the item to be added or those still playing who had earned it back in 1.0. Considering the items are being added, I suspect the latter is the smaller group.

As someone else said earlier in the thread, people need to stop clinging to items as a source of validation and start getting their validation from what they accomplish.

Are the items a memento of what was achieved? Sure. My Lifebinder's Handmaiden in WoW reminds me that I was part of one of the only three raid teams on my little RP server to clear Heroic Dragon Soul before the MoP pre-launch patch was released.

That achievement can't be taken away from me. Someone else who outlevels and outgears the content can faceroll their way through all the Heroic Dragon Soul bosses tomorrow and get the mount, and it still doesn't change what I accomplished over 6 years ago. I'm happy they're able to get something they want to have. Their access to the mount now doesn't invalidate what I had already done.

Things don't mean anything in the long run. Things are too easily replaced or lost or destroyed. It's what you do that's important.

Congrats to those who killed Nael before Dalamud fell. No one can take that accomplishment away from you.

But throwing a temper tantrum because someone else gets to have a copy of a now useless pair of earrings that you already have? That's just stupid.

I'd actually say Blizz actually does things way more properly. They have AoTC and things like Legendary Cloak/Ring/Grove Warden/Violet Spellwing, feats for realm first, etc that have timestamps that they don't give away after the fact. Not that they're perfect, I'm sure some things have slipped through (Black Market). Some of this stuff is sold, but so were these earrings on my server at least.

You would have an achievement with a timestamp when you couldn't faceroll Dragon Soul, someone who does it now would have the date now, which you can differentiate easily by linking.

Sure, it doesn't matter since it's a game, etc. Some people just have sentimental value in items and stuff like that, even in RL.

Looking at the JP thread, mostly the same agreement/disagreements as here.