White Raven earring given out at The Rising event 2018

[Stormfur]

Nobody, unless they like a challenge, is going to go back and do all these old fights synced just to get a reward. Not when they can do them unsynced and power through them in minutes.

I mean...I got all the ARR ponies (including nightmare) doing the fights as normal (and let me tell you, nightmare was a nightmare!). I also got the HW birds doing those fights as normal and the SB wolves at their normal stages as well. But you don't see me whinging about how it's not fair that other people got them faster/easier than I did because they did the fights unsynced and got the exact same items I did, just at a later time.

I don't care, because that's how I chose to spend my time, and I like the challenge. I don't think any less of players who go in and get their birds/ponies/wolves the "easy" way, because at the end of the day, it's just a game, and there are far greater things worthy of my concern than whether or not Joe Gamer over here got a thing in a digital world.

[Stormfur]

Nothing of this was a taste of what 1.0 was like. The Instance itself is an homage to the GMs spamming mobs in the cities during the last hours of the game. Overall I can understand why they're miffed solely because there is, now that I saw it linked multiple times in this thread, a promised made to 1.0 players promising Seventh Umbral Era items to be solely for them for sticking around including the White Raven Earrings.

Overall my stance is still heavily on "If they bring it back at least do it the honor of tying it behind something people can be proud of doing not just another FATE Spam" but yet we got the most predictable content: FATE SPAM

Ohh I see. I've watched some of the RoaR videos showing what old 1.0 was like and thought this FATE event was trying to make things in a similar vein. Even when watching those videos of old gameplay, 1.0 is definitely something I would have avoided completely -- it looks tedious and unforgiving at best. I am glad that the company and the players had enough faith in it to keep it going.

Of course, some might say "and our faith was rewarded with these earrings...which they now chose to give out to anyone and everyone for a few minutes of work" (rather than a few months). But you really got something much more valuable than earrings. You got a revamped game that was so successful, it has spawned two expansions and possibly another on the way within a year. We might not always agree on the direction the devs take, but we as players are all in it and giving our opinions because we care.

[Stormfur]

Complete this fight ‎Monday, ‎October ‎29, ‎2012, ‏‎~1:10 AM, a day before the Hurricane Sandy knocked out my power, days before the final save. What was your story

Wow! That is pretty amazing. I'm glad you are okay! I think few people would have a moment that would compare to that

[Adeacia]

I was not playing in 1.0. I didn't even have anything to play the game on at the time.

I picked up the earrings last night and my reaction was "All that fuss, over THIS?" It isn't good for combat, and all accessories are barely visible on a character anyway so they are useless for glam. Why get so mad over an item most people didn't even know existed? I wasn't aware they did until this fuss started on the forums.

I'm going to put them the same place I put the rest of my glam accessories: on a retainer since I'll never use the things.

[Hazama999]

/shrug

Meh. The rewards are outdated, so I don't see why people couldn't just unsync the content to get them. People grinded so and so primal 99 times for the mount and someone else got it after 5 tries a few years later? Oh, woe is me.

How utterly... unenergetic, how utterly insignificant this whole thing seems to me. If people place so much value in online trinkets instead of the experience and the memory of it all, by all means, do so. Go ahead, drown in that glass of water.

[Coombah]

Snip-Great post! Thank you for sharing

absolutely agree, that’s one of the main reasons why people are still fond of their time in 1.0. When I played you actually felt like part of a community and the feeling of adventure was emphasized because of it.


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[Lunafreya]

So I didn't play 1.0 because I heard it was a disaster and I understand what the white ravens mean to those players that fought the hard battle to keep the game alive. Coming into a realm reborn, I was a noob that just wanted to blaze through all content to catch up to my friends. I never really thought I'd be so invested in this game after all these years. A realm reborn is a new game and technically a new world and 1.0 doesn't matter to the majority of players which is why i'd wager that Square Enix thought releasing the white ravens to everyone was a good idea. I mean, in reality it makes sense. You are teleported into a reimagined calamity and it's like your character was there this time around. However, there's no excuse from SE on why they shouldnt be called white raven replicas. Calling it the white ravens makes it look like the real thing that people had surviving 1.0 with and I think that's why most players are ticked off at Square Enix. It's a real shite thing to do but it doesnt affect me PERSONALLY as a player as I was not around in 1.0. However, I do think there should be some sign of respect for old players in that they rename the item to be a replica. I mean Square Enix literally said it would never be obtainable outside 1.0 didn't they?

[Canadane]

Saying 1.0 doesn't matter and 2.0 is entirely a new game isn't really true.
Legacy players have gotten many script changes in the MSQ and in Coil, acknowledging what happened while 2.0+ players don't get this.
They didn't abandon the old game at all, they built from it.

[Canadane]

I was not playing in 1.0. I didn't even have anything to play the game on at the time.

I picked up the earrings last night and my reaction was "All that fuss, over THIS?" It isn't good for combat, and all accessories are barely visible on a character anyway so they are useless for glam. Why get so mad over an item most people didn't even know existed? I wasn't aware they did until this fuss started on the forums.

I'm going to put them the same place I put the rest of my glam accessories: on a retainer since I'll never use the things.

It's not really about the item itself, it's the idea that a trophy item promised to be exclusive, is no longer exclusive. What the item is, is not relivant.
Also, you can put them in your armoire to save retainr space.

[Lambdafish]

It's not really about the item itself, it's the idea that a trophy item promised to be exclusive, is no longer exclusive. What the item is, is not relivant.
Also, you can put them in your armoire to save retainr space.

It actually goes beyond this. I've seen people say "This is what all the fuss is about? Its just an earring with no stats, I cant even see it on my character very well". That fact alone shows that the devs have failed to understand the appeal of the earrings, they arent nice to look at, they arent valuable to a battle, and they don't mean anything to anyone except those that cleared Nael. The earrings in their entirety are nothing but representation that you beat that fight, and the fact that I have seen people totally uninterested in them as rewards really highlights that fact, and how much of a slip up this is.

I also want to clarify my statement before anyone makes this about my personal benefit: I started playing shortly before 2.1 came out, I have not played 1.0 and do not own any of the exclusive items available to 1.0 players.