Moonlet Earring :( i want one!

[Kosmos992k]

OK, I can see that there are as usual people actively trying to take offense where none was meant. I suggested adding items from 1.0 to the loot tables for ventures so that some of those items could slowly filter back into Eorzea as very rare and unusual items. In a logic and lore sense it kind of makes sense that when exploring a retainer might stumble across some rare item dropped by someone else previously.

I wasn't saying that all exclusive, especially the significant event items, should be included. Obviously such things must be handled with care do as not to diminish the achievement or significance of the event they mark. At the same time though, there are also many items that could be added without causing problems.

The intention of the thought was not to take away from the accomplishments of players who played in the 1.0 era. It also has to be said that a) there are many items from that version of the game that were not necessarily billed as rare or exclusive at the time, but which are not available in A realm reborn, and b) many of those things would and should still be in circulation. In the same way as paraphernalia from the US Civil War, 1st and 2nd World Wars, the Korean War or Vietnam are still in the hands of many individuals as rare mementos of days gone by; such items would still be in Eorzea. The Civil War/WW1/WW2/Korean artifacts in our real world, are in many, many cases languishing in trunks or attics, or perhaps lost somewhere in a yard, or even further afield, waiting for the day when a person with a metal detector looks their way. Eorzean artifacts would be no different.

Does someone finding and displaying a medal that a soldier in WW2 wore with honor, but lost sometime in the past, in any way diminish whatever act(s) of heroism the soldier was awarded the medal for? Of course not, and the item itself serves as a reminder of the events and the cost.