Should rare gear from 1.0 be available to everyone?

[Velthice]

As a 1.0 vet, you can have all my stuff. Really, it should be your reward for NOT making the same mistake I did and playing a dead bad game.

[Nandalowell]

I actually loved 1.0 but that's neither here nor there.

I don't mind some things being brought back. Heck, I was happy to see 1.0 swimsuits as I had accidentally NPC'd one of mine. Stuff they claimed would be exclusive should stay so but little things like seasonal gear isn't any big thing.

[Niwashi]

I remember them going back on their word regarding the lightning fate stuff, which will be available again soon to anyone who missed out

They never went back on their word there. They never claimed that they wouldn't be bringing it back. (The closest they came to that was a post saying that at the time, they didn't have any current plans about it one way or the other.) It was just that some players started saying it should be exclusive while other players were saying more people should have a chance at it. As it was a rather fun event, I'm glad SE chose to go with the later group and bring it back.

I'm not sure how many of the 1.0 "exclusives" are the same type of thing. Ones that SE promised would be exclusive (like legacy tatoos and legacy chocobos) should stay that way, but just because something was in 1.0 and wasn't immediately re-released as soon as 2.0 came out doesn't restrict it from being brought out again later. A lot of things people try to claim as "exclusive" were never intended to be.

[Amberion]

Items to Become Unobtainable
The following items will become unobtainable:

Dated items
Weathered gear
* Weathered weapons and tools will remain obtainable.
Items obtained through seasonal events
Rewards for achievements that will become unattainable in FFXIV: ARR, such as the Dalamud horn
Items obtained through events associated with the coming of the Seventh Umbral Era, such as over-aspected clusters

List of things they said would be unobtainable in ARR.

[Phaydra]

No it shouldn't be available to everyone. You can't have items from a game you have never played.

[AzakaTonnerre]

And yet they do it constantly in ARR.

What's even more ironic is that when a seasonal event ended in 1.xx we didn't have tread after thread, on the old lodestone, asking to be given items we didn't earn when they were available. That phenomenon began when ARR came out.

[Tupsi]

What's even more ironic is that when a seasonal event ended in 1.xx we didn't have tread after thread, on the old lodestone, asking to be given items we didn't earn when they were available. That phenomenon began when ARR came out.

Yep - I recall the only time someone made a thread was when they were upset SE didn't offer the swimsuits again for the people who chose not to play the game but later picked it up and decided they deserved it.

[Cimyr]

Hey, dont suggest stuff like this. You'll ruin peoples special snowflake status you know.

[HakuroDK]

I think SOME should be permitted, such as common models that no longer exist, but anything that was rare in 1.0 should stay in 1.0.

[ckb]

Stuff

LOL, can't be serious. The game sucked in all forms up to 2.0. Stamina was a disaster, "Yay, I'm playing and trying to level but I get reduced then finally no exp. Walking back to aetheryte's for mp to recover was awesome >.>. The "big open world," was bare and copy pasted. Even then there were still zone lines. The UI was a masterpiece of inoperability. So no, the game is better today than it was back then. That is not to say there were not some good things like the freedom to customize your classes. However, the atrocious greatly outweighed the good.

On topic: really couldn't care either way. The items have no value other than vanity.