Quote Originally Posted by Vaer View Post
Honestly? The more level headed people were more just expressing disappointment which is ok to me. That borders more on feedback than complaining to me. Complaining would be the "you don't deserve it" thing or some kind of ultimatum. OP was pretty reasonable I thought. It wasn't even about the earring glamour, most of them as far as I can tell don't even care about the glamour they just wanted it to be a different item. Obviously the entire thing sounds kind of petty from the outside looking in, but different people care about different things. Some of the stuff was silly, like comparing it to a military medal, that was out there.

People keep mementos IRL as well for the same reason. Like a wedding ring, or some kind of gift that was given to them by someone else that could even be "digital" and others don't even care about stuff like that.
It sounds petty because it is. I'd actually have slightly more respect for their position if they were against the glamour being obtainable as well, but since that doesn't bother them, it makes it rather apparent that what they're really after is the game going out of its way to tell them how special they are because their sense of self-worth is apparently not internally sourced. It's not the game's job to manage people's emotions for them.

Real life mementos also tend to be valued irrespective of whether or not anyone else can get them. Many of them are mass produced items, but they're kept because of the significance to the individual, not because of their rarity. Nobody goes around expecting anyone else to be in awe of them for having a dead relative who liked baseball or whatever either. This breaks down in the MMORPG iteration because it's not for the same purpose at all. Instead, it's about prestige (that doesn't really exist) and an attempt to establish some sort of social hierarchy based on tenure and outdated accomplishments.