White Raven earring given out at The Rising event 2018

[Empyrean]

But, seriously, people, what does it really matter? Until they were relevant for the Rising, how many of you even remembered you had these earrings in the first place? If it wasn't for the name of them, I wouldn't even realize they're connected to 1.X. Nobody talked about them. You ask people about 1.0 and you'll hear about the amazing storyline they pulled off in those days. Dalamund's fall, monsters in the city, aetherytes failing, the Great Gobbue Wall. That's the stuff people care to remember, not some cheap trinket you probably don't even remember stuffed in an armoire that you'll probably never even think twice about.

You can even barely see them on glamour. They're nothing special.

I can safely say that, even if we didn't use them for glamour, almost everyone who earned these earrings remembers they had them.

[Fawkes]

I still don't get all this hostility towards people who enjoyed having a little exclusive thing. I never heard of any 2.0 players saying they wanted these earrings before, most of you say you didn't even know they existed, so why is it so offensive to you that somebody liked having them be exclusive? Like half of this thread is people getting mad for no discernible reason.

[Writer]

I can safely say that, even if we didn't use them for glamour, almost everyone who earned these earrings remembers they had them.

And I can safely say that every 1.0 player I have ever talked to has never mentioned them in any way. Ever.

So I really doubt they mattered as much as you try to make them out to be because it would be something worth talking about. People always mention the Golden Weapons from Ultimate Coil for instance. Whether they worth it or not, people love to show them off. Nobody did the same with these earrings. They exist. Period.

[Penthea]

I still don't get all this hostility towards people who enjoyed having a little exclusive thing. I never heard of any 2.0 players saying they wanted these earrings before, most of you say you didn't even know they existed, so why is it so offensive to you that somebody liked having them be exclusive? Like half of this thread is people getting mad for no discernible reason.

Because many 1.0 players in this thread act like no one else could ever possibly deserve them under any circumstances.

[Canadane]

And I can safely say that every 1.0 player I have ever talked to has never mentioned them in any way. Ever.

So I really doubt they mattered as much as you try to make them out to be because it would be something worth talking about. People always mention the Golden Weapons from Ultimate Coil for instance. Whether they worth it or not, people love to show them off. Nobody did the same with these earrings. They exist. Period.

Have you ever asked?
Get a 1.0 player to talk about their time raiding in it and I'm sure they can give you some tales.

[MomomiMomi]

I still don't get all this hostility towards people who enjoyed having a little exclusive thing. I never heard of any 2.0 players saying they wanted these earrings before, most of you say you didn't even know they existed, so why is it so offensive to you that somebody liked having them be exclusive? Like half of this thread is people getting mad for no discernible reason.

I don't care about the earrings, but I am entirely anti-exclusivity.

[Iscah]

It's possible. It's just harder to do.

When you get an item, there is a timestamp in the logs for it. Seeing as the current ones are "fresh" and the other ones are...really old...it's not that hard to program a code that would rename the items gotten recently thus making them separate. I mean...it works exactly as search feature "only in highlighted area" of office programs like Word works.

That’s assuming that each person’s copy of the earrings exists as a separate item, that can be individually renamed.

I may be wrong (particularly given this game’s strange handling of inventory) but I would assume that each person has “item #123” which would be listed in an item database, currently labeled “White Ravens”. If they change that name in the item database, all the individual copies of that item would now display the altered name. You can’t change it for some of them any more than you can change the title of a website for only some of the pages that link to it. All the links point to the same final address.

Surely they haven’t created a system that stores the name of each copy of the item separately, and requires a find-and-replace check on every user worldwide if they want to rename something? (eg. fixing the recent issue with misnamed silvergrace accessories.) How much more data would that take up?

[TattoedEnigma]

People are literally crying over earrings from a game..... OP even stated they have high emotions.... this is what we’ve come to.

[Hestzhyen]

Ignoring the hysterics from both sides... The item could be a ring, boots, whatever... it has sentimental and some exclusive value. Why not have a little empathy and understand that the people who worked so hard to earn the items wanted SE to keep the promise they made? 99% of the stuff in the game becomes available to everyone eventually somehow, let the people who beat a super hard right before 1.0 shut down for good keep the badge they earned (after all it's just earrings, right?). They don't have to use it every day on every job to show how much they value them and the experience they had earning them. It's like saying you have to wear your favourite shirt every day or you have to give it up for charity because if you don't always use it, you must not really love it. Makes no sense.

Telling people to stop being "babies" and "children" just because you personally don't find the item valuable is super unempathetic. I'm glad YoshiP came here to apologize, and I hope they really do take care not to put valuable 1.x items in the game without differentiating them again at the very least.

[Ozz]

The strength of a very vocal minority it seems.

The strength of the true supporters that by subbing and playing helped make the game you are playing even possible!