White Raven earring given out at The Rising event 2018

[Ghoulheart]

To make a quick note here the Terms of Service and End User License Agreement while giving Yoshida and the development team free reign do whatever they want they are not a shield that can be used to deflect any and all criticisms from the consumer. And Consumers are allowed and should be encouraged to voice concerns and criticisms when a service they are paying regularly for depreciates. While Yoshida is under no obligation to keep any items exclusive, going back on his word does damage his integrity as director to a portion of his playerbase regardless of individual feelings on the matter.

Regarding "digital items have no value" the digital cosmetics in games industry has grown to multi-million dollars in profits and companies do encourage sales through the idea of artificial scarcity through exclusive windows of opportunity or limited quantity distribution. Yoshida is the one who set the value of these items by marketing them as being exclusive to 1.0 players to drive subscriptions and encourage player growth and is now devaluing them by giving them away because he didn't want to allocate resources to creating new rising themed assets and is deserving of any negative or positive feedback he gets from his decisions.

[Nixxe]

To make a quick note here the Terms of Service and End User License Agreement while giving Yoshida and the development team free reign do whatever they want they are not a shield that can be used to deflect any and all criticisms from the consumer. And Consumers are allowed and should be encouraged to voice concerns and criticisms when a service they are paying regularly for depreciates. While Yoshida is under no obligation to keep any items exclusive, going back on his word does damage his integrity as director to a portion of his playerbase regardless of individual feelings on the matter.

Regarding "digital items have no value" the digital cosmetics in games industry has grown to multi-million dollars in profits and companies do encourage sales through the idea of artificial scarcity through exclusive windows of opportunity or limited quantity distribution. Yoshida is the one who set the value of these items by marketing them as being exclusive to 1.0 players to drive subscriptions and encourage player growth and is now devaluing them by giving them away because he didn't want to allocate resources to creating new rising themed assets and is deserving of any negative or positive feedback he gets from his decisions.

"His words" in this case seem to be more about what players read into a vague list of things than anything that was actually said. Nothing anyone has posted in this thread has unequivocally shown otherwise.

[Kurando]

Yoshida is the one who set the value of these items by marketing them as being exclusive to 1.0 players to drive subscriptions and encourage player growth and is now devaluing them by giving them away because he didn't want to allocate resources to creating new rising themed assets and is deserving of any negative or positive feedback he gets from his decisions.

This isn't completely true. As with previous events, the items obtained from them are released on to the Mog Station a year later to purchase for real cash, therefore they are given a value. No doubt this will happen to the earrings, so in the long term there is actually something to gain in terms of profit.