Quote Originally Posted by van_arn View Post
Seeing an exclusive memento in your inventory can be a powerful way to welcome you back to the game. I understand it might make some people jealous, but I don’t feel the right solution is to just make everything obtainable again. I’d rather see new exclusives be continuously added, so players can begin collecting some mementos of their own.

Everyone will get a taste of this when Endwalker releases and belts become collector’s items.
When I logged into WoW last year, I had a little look through my feats of strength, and exclusive rewards and I felt, nothing really. Not saying this is what its like for everyone, but your millage will definitely vary. And while I was getting back into WoW at the time I ended up looking at mage tower rewards, and seeing them locked away forever behind the time legion was current.

Now I don't know for sure what would have happened, but I likely would have been a lot more hooked into WoW for a lot longer had the content been treated like FF treats a lot of its content.
I would have had more goals, more things to aim for, more stuff I could do at my own pace on my own time. But instead it's just gone forever and I gotta slog through current content and hope it has rewards I actually want, which wasn't a lot in BfA.

I'd argue one of the reasons FF is gaining so much popularity over WoW is the fact that it doesn't have a real intense stance on exclusivity and doesn't constantly milk FOMO. FF respects your time and will always be around when when you're ready to go.