So uh... what makes elite hunts different from a FATE then?

[Felis]

You are right, they don`t lose it.

They just can`t use their improved skills, their gear, everyone knows changing GC comes with a lobotomy. Till a month pass and they change back or they do again a bazillion fixed matches. But no, is not excluding. hahahaha...

15 days, not 1 month

If you want to know what exclusion is, you should have played 1.0
Once you choosed a GC you was in the GC forever.

doing Chocobo Escourts only with people from your GC. Doing them only in the region of your GC (as a twin adder member it was Tranquill and Treespeak). And no way to change another GC after it.