was that in hopes... Someday... I would be one of the small percentage of players who owned atleast 1 relic weapon, kraken club/ridill, who played with players who all had atleast 1 relic weapon and a kraken club/ridill.

This is just me, of course, but I can have fun anywhere. I can experience gameplay in any videogame. I can make friends anywhere. I don't need to be playing FFXIV. But spending several years of my free time and even some extra hours building my character and releationships with other players in the game would be a very difficult (but possible) experience to duplicate if the reward I got from it was say.... a relic weapon. I'm using this as an example. But an item to signify my hard work, or my wealth... or... MY E PNUS , would be just marvelous!

I haven't seen any massive threads about relic/kclub/ridill/[input other items less then 3% of the playerbase would have] (or maybe I'm just blind) but I was just wondering what people think of them. Do you want to see them again? Did you stick through the 9 months of obvi terribad game mechanics in hopes of getting a headstart on something like this over everyone who quit/took a break? Or do you hate them and think any item that takes enough time to get emotionally attached to it shouldn't be in a video game?