What the hell were they thinking with Occult Crescent treasure chest rewards?

[Misutoraru]

The spine of Eureka, Bozja, Island Sanctuary and others is already there. Rather than shooting it in the head, SE could give it new gloves and a hat so that players have more things to do.

They could add more incentive to old contents and revive it.

I have been voicing it since ShB but as you know how feedback go. I took a long break after EW, and come back to this FFXIV I guess I am in a “give up and live on the day” mode. I will jump in newest content and forget about old one since SE seem to do little to no effort to keep old content alive.

[Doki]

Mostly it just feels like a super lazy way to add items to a new zone. Here's a bunch of old stuff that has been in the game for YEARS with a tiny amount of new stuff that is mostly fireworks again. There's such a contradiction to the devs mindset for giving people alternate ways to get things too. Want this difficult to grind thing from Eureka or Bozja? Here it now drops like candy. Want that extremely exclusive PvP mount that was only available a single season of Feast when everyone win traded week one and locked you out of any chance of obtaining? Nah, that would diminish their accomplishment. Want the earring you could only get if you beat Nael in 1.23? Here you go!

[Mawlzy]

Mostly it just feels like a super lazy way to add items to a new zone. Here's a bunch of old stuff that has been in the game for YEARS with a tiny amount of new stuff that is mostly fireworks again. There's such a contradiction to the devs mindset for giving people alternate ways to get things too. Want this difficult to grind thing from Eureka or Bozja? Here it now drops like candy. Want that extremely exclusive PvP mount that was only available a single season of Feast when everyone win traded week one and locked you out of any chance of obtaining? Nah, that would diminish their accomplishment. Want the earring you could only get if you beat Nael in 1.23? Here you go!

I think it reflects a broader issue that rewards now seem completely divorced from the content that drops them.

I don't want to relitigate the whole CAR hairstyle debacle, but I think if that hairstyle had a thematic link to the raid, far less controversy would have ensued.

OC is a new region with a new story. At the very least, the most desirable drops should have something to do with OC.

[Mawlzy]

Amazes me how they just up and abandoned Island Sanctuary. They could have kept it going with new things to build, possibly expansions to the land. It got some use out of me recently for Cosmic Exploration because it's a good way to get Hi-Cordials if you have the one currency saved up, but otherwise wasted potential.

Doubtless there are spaghetti code excuses reasons for why they couldn't make the most popular addition of all time and allow us to build a house on our island.

I would love to be able to sail a boat around the coastline. Maybe fish from it. How about a two-person Pedalo?

We never even got the opportunity to name our island. Maybe they were concerned about the massive duplication of people naming theirs "Wasted Potential."

[Ankhira]

You're not being very kind right now like your signature says, you're being very petty and passive aggressive actually. Do better

I was just pointing out that making something easier doesn’t erase the achievement of getting it when it was hard. Not sure how that’s passive-aggressive, but if my wording came off that way, that wasn’t my intention.

[Ankhira]

It devalues the item and invalidates the achievement of acquiring it - you can no longer proudly show it off because nobody will know whether you earned it legit or got it last week for 5k on the MB or from a random silver chest in OC. It's also just unhealthy for the game and its economy in general, and goes against the very basics of game design. Rare items are an important part of the MMO genre and we've now lost several of the already few we had.

Going by your logic, should Ultimate weapons be made available for 1000 gil each from a vendor in Limsa? I should hope it would be obvious why that would be a terrible idea.

I get why you'd be frustrated, but does making something more accessible really erase the enjoyment of earning it yourself? If you got it through effort, you still know that—and that personal achievement still holds value, even if others get it later in an easier manner. They'll never put ultimate weapons up for 1000 gil, we all know that. These mounts, as I said before, would have shown up on the moogle treasure trove regardless.

[CCheshire]

Yeah, I've been trying to push myself to do different content nowadays as I've played for a while, and I decided to farm the wing mounts in DT. This was the very first time I had done extremes somewhat current, and it was a unique exp for me despite failing to farm Ex 3 well enough to get the wings.

However, if in 2-3 expansions and they added the wings to the moogle event, or just people could farm them unsync'd, then I'd be OK with it. The exp of doing the DT extremes will remain with me, and that rewards are only temporary, especially in MMO.

Finally, we can't predict if SE decides to do another loot pinata with old rewards, so we can just try to have fun while the content is current.

[Alexaa]

Few things to point out..
1st rare rewards matter and are there for a reason. By devaluating them SE removes the insentive of people going back or even trying the content just for these rewards. For me personally that I have all relics & jobs lvl100 there is not a single reason to join a party for Delubrum or Dalriada anymore.
2nd If you want the items so badly but dont wanna do the content you can always choose to do content that you enjoy... make gil and buy them from the MB. Being tradable is more than enough.
3rd OC is a new Field Operation and should have its own unique rewards... throwing older content rewards in there feels lazy.
4th its disrespect towards players that actually grinded it. Especially newer ones that did it recently.
5th Hope SE doesnt do the same thing with the next zone.. like adding Copycat Bulb, Cassie Earring, Blitzring there... its gonna be just sad.
Otherwise I encourage them to add rewards like Golden Beaver, Philos, Aidoneus, Ultimate weapons and so on, cause who cares. (:

[Doki]

There isn't even a lore reason why Eurkea gear \ drops should appear in Occult Crescent is there? Adding all these items to the OC loot pool was just utter lazy "rewards" for long time players.

[TaleraRistain]

There isn't even a lore reason why Eurkea gear \ drops should appear in Occult Crescent is there? Adding all these items to the OC loot pool was just utter lazy "rewards" for long time players.

Considering the zone was intended to preserve older civilizations then the argument might be made that the Isle of Val could be one of those. Krile is also from V so there's a more meta-lore connection since OC also has so much V inspiration.