Honestly, I think we should just cancel the reward system for The Rising at this point because of what's going on. No one is coming together as a community (as far as this side of the forum goes anyways) over the event because so many people would rather cling to an item that's five years old and determine who's self-worthy enough to have it and who doesn't deserve it instead of the memories behind said item and sharing what they know about the fight. The event is suppose to be about the history of said game, so maybe we should just do away with the carrot-on-the-stick if people are this easily offended and made to feel invalidated about something that literally no one else can go back and say they did without the proper achievement evidence for it.

I wonder if the JP side of the forums argues this much over exclusives and whether or not one side of the community shouldn't have them over the other side as much as we do.