Quote Originally Posted by Gyson View Post
Just curious, but why is anyone opposed to this event (or any event) returning again?
As I noted on page 2, these events pile up. The more weeks or months SE devotes to regurgitating old special events cuts into the weeks or months they can devote to NEW special events. It may be just two or three events now - but years from now? When they've had all kinds of special events come and go? Suddenly, every place you go in the game has these oddball cameo events springing up. Shantoto FATEs, Lightning FATEs, Dragon Quest FATEs whatever new crossover events SE adds to the game over time. The world becomes a circus of non-FFXIV characters romping around, distracting people who are trying to play, you know, FFXIV.

Plus, these events are PASSE! The Lightning Returns game has been launched already, and it's not going to launch again. The event was introduced to the game to celebrate and draw attention to Lightning Returns. To implement it again now would be for one purpose: to get Lighning equipment and hairstyles into the hands of players who haven't gotten them yet. That goal can easily be accomplished by cash shop, without cluttering the game with an event whose main purpose is now obsolete.

Limited time events are great, but when they go, it's time to say goodbye. Putting the rewards in the cash shop means that folks years down the road will not have lost their opportunity to get the items involved.