Moonlet for everyone!

[ElHeggunte]

And Ravens especially should never go to cash shop- doing so delegitimizes the effort everyone who earned them put into acquiring them, and basically tells them that to Square Enix cash is more important than their feelings of accomplishment.

This was never an argument I could prescribe to. No one can take away your sense of accomplishment except for you. Even if SE were to add these items to the shop right now, you and the people that were with you still know that you earned them the hard way and at least in my opinion that's all that should matter.

I've played my fair share of games where I earned rare or "exclusive" items the hard way only for them to be made easier to obtain after the fact and I've never once cared. So what if someone else didn't "earn" it the same way I did? I know what kind of effort it took for me to obtain those items, or titles, or mounts. I know that no matter what happens I'll still have the personal knowledge that I was there with my friends putting in the work to earn those items when the content was difficult. No one else can take away my experiences and memories. Bob may be able to buy the item but he'll never be able to buy the experience. His item might look the same, but it'll never hold the same weight.

But then maybe I'm one of those people who cares more about the experiences leading up to the rewards more than the rewards themselves.