White Raven earring given out at The Rising event 2018

[Erza_Scarlets]

Silly people don't understand that SE is making and running this game. If they decide to put this in as some reward for event they can do it. What you say or think ether for or against it doesn't matter its already set to be a reward for the rising. The End.

[Tsalmaveth]

Erza, shhhhhh. You're not allowed to say that.

[Skivvy]

Silly people don't understand that SE is making and running this game. If they decide to put this in as some reward for event they can do it. What you say or think ether for or against it doesn't matter its already set to be a reward for the rising. The End.

Of course they can do whatever they please, has someone claimed otherwise?

At this point, SE has gone back on many things already, it's just one more thing to add to the list. It's disappointing, but not surprising.

[Brightamethyst]

The thing is, people could lie and say they've done the fight and how could you tell?

But why would anyone bother doing that, and even if they did, who would care? In this particular case anyway, it just plain doesn't matter.

[Tint]

Silly people don't understand that SE is making and running this game. If they decide to put this in as some reward for event they can do it. What you say or think ether for or against it doesn't matter its already set to be a reward for the rising. The End.

they also decided to open this forum and let us discuss and give feedback about the game.

when it doesn't matter what we say or think why they don't simply close the forums?

[Canadane]

But why would anyone bother doing that, and even if they did, who would care? In this particular case anyway, it just plain doesn't matter.

Seeing someone with those earrings always invoked some respect for them as a skilled player.
It's something you earn with your skill. Much akin to Ultimate weapons.

Now if they handed out Ultimate weapons to everyone...

[InkstainedGwyn]

they also decided to open this forum and let us discuss and give feedback about the game.

when it doesn't matter what we say or think why they don't simply close the forums?

The cynical answer is: the illusion of control. Someone looking to express their frustrations that goes looking for an outlet and does not find one continues to stew. If they have a forum they can deliver their complaints to, even if they still Feel The Way, they'll come away thinking "I've said my piece, someone will hear it."

Granted, we do know they're listening, but the question often is, "what are they hearing"? When you complain about these earrings are they hearing "it is this specific item that bothers me" or are they hearing "I want you to preserve the sanctity of all 1.0 rewards"? When people complain about houses being demolished early and they come back with "emails are going out appropriately", it's a wonder if they're looking into the core issue or just grabbing one note of the squabble and calling it a day.

[Yoruichi4478]

Certainly enough to assume, but if they didn't specifically say the White Raven earrings will never be available again, particularly while there are other items that are still exclusive to legacy players, then they are not breaking any promises by making that item available again eventually.

You can be disappointed that they're being made available, but you can't say they promised to never do it. (Or certainly can't say that quote proves they promised to never do it.)

And I still think it's possible that the Stormblood items are the cheap giveaways, and they might make us work harder for the earrings.

They said the fight you got the earrings from wouldn't be available again, so therefore, the earrings wouldn't be either, since there was only one way to obtain them, clearing the fight.

[Nestama]

Seeing someone with those earrings always invoked some respect for them as a skilled player.
It's something you earn with your skill. Much akin to Ultimate weapons.

Now if they handed out Ultimate weapons to everyone...

They'd have to hand out the Savage Weapons first (so far they haven't done that)
Also, you gotta stop making that comparison with Ultimate and Rivenroad (Hard). One fight will always exist (and possibly permanently level and ilevel sync'd), while another has been 'dead' since 2012 (and if it did, would be a cakewalk compared to T9, devaluing the effort 1.0 players put into the fight, which I feel would be worse than handing out earrings).

The exclusive Feast rewards would be a more appropriate comparison (since that's actually limited time rewards)... though I have a feeling that if PvP players were to complain, there's a chance the majority of the FFXIV playerbase (possibly even Legacy/1.0 players) wouldn't care how they felt.

[Yoruichi4478]

People need to stop comparing this to UWU or frankly any current content, given that there is no guarantee that UWU will remain rare, especially when you factor in that some level of unsync could be introduced in the following expansion, so they will then be relatively common, particularly granted that the new expansion is likely to have changes made that won't balance level 70 particularly well (Possible, not guaranteed). So in this case comparing a sidequest item in 1.x is fundamentally wrong. Not to mention it is an item worth commemorating.

People are comparing this to UWU because the 1.0 fight was 1.0's Ultimate raid. It was the hardest fight in the game that the servers at the time could handle. Not everyone could clear it. Only a fraction of us did. Just like the 2 ultimate fights in the game right now. Only a portion of the gaming community has cleared them.