Just to offer some perspective from the Japanese point of view, regarding things like a grace period.

I personally don’t care either way about a grace period, but SE chose not to… why?

In Japan there are often set boundaries when it comes to things like bending rules and it is often frowned upon to make exceptions because if you make an exception this time, people will expect an exception next time.

It’s viewed very much as a “if you give a mouse a cookie…” situation (google it, it’s a kids book).

To the point, they haven’t had grace periods for events like Xmas or Halloween, so for this to be an exception would give players reason to complain when (for example) the FF15 event returns and doesn’t offer a grace period. This is much more difficult to explain to the player base than “sorry, our events end when they end”.



Personally? I think they should just have a holiday vendor that has exchange for every old/expired “currency” into something like Grand Company Seals or Tomestones.