White Raven earring given out at The Rising event 2018

[Nestama]

Because this one has a very tangible fix, simple as that. With all other content, people technically achieved the same goal to get the rewards easier, but with these the goal was completely different, so the timestamps for completing them are also different

The bolded point is arguable. Doing Coil unsync'd, you could drag someone into a fight, tell them to do nothing and then beat the fight faster than The Rising event and say they can have everything that drops.
If Rivenroad [Hard] still existed, it would also be unsync'd and people would easily get those earrings.

Edit: responses like Empyreans is why some people have generalised the entire 1.0/Legacy playerbase as entitled toxic elitists. That's behaviour no one on the FFXIV team should ever cater to.

[Lambdafish]

The bolded point is arguable. Doing Coil unsync'd, you could drag someone into a fight, tell them to do nothing and then beat the fight faster than The Rising event and say they can have everything that drops.
If Rivenroad [Hard] still existed, it would also be unsync'd and people would easily get those earrings.

Edit: responses like Empyreans is why some people have generalised the entire 1.0/Legacy playerbase as entitled toxic elitists. That's behaviour no one on the FFXIV team should ever cater to.

I'm talking about from a code level, not from a community and gameplay level. The game code recognises the achievement the same way whether it's synced or unsynced (a huge failing of the system IMO), whereas on a code level, the earrings can be recognised differently