Quote Originally Posted by basketofseals View Post
The way Blizzard does it is MUCH MUCH worse. Certain items that are not from yearly events are simply 100% unobtainable, even if that gear has a unique look.
At least they didn't REMOVE ITEMS FROM THE GAME to put them on the cash shop, as SE has done.

Gunspec explained this clearly. In 2.0 we could obtain both old items and new holiday items with gil. SE then decided to REMOVE all of those items from the game so that they could sell them on a cash shop. It's disgusting.