"If you disagree with this company, even if this company might be wrong gtfo!!!11!" I like this game, I don't approve of the direction SE is taking with the Cash shop, I have just as much of a right as you to complain. Are you going to go into the RMT threads and go "stop whining and go play another mmo if you don't agree with how SE handles RMT"? If so, please go do so, I want to know exactly how warm of a reception that goes.
Veteran rewards are the bonuses for playing the game, which anyone can get as long as they pay the sub (Hint you're paying for the game not for the ability to do 1 time seasonal events). It's not a "bonus" in any way shape or form, it's content that you can't even attempt to do
Welcome to video games, nothing is ever mandatory and anything is subjectively useless. The point is, players at one point in time got it for free, now there is no free way to obtain it. I'm sorry you seem mad, do you have a time machine so I can go back in time and tell myself about FFXIV? Because otherwise, if I want stuff that was at one point free, that at one point other players got for free, yes I have to pay extra for it. I didn't have the opportunity to get it for free unlike other players and now I've got to pay for it, this is not the way a cash shop should be used, especially not in a subscription MMO.
Plus, you guys don't even address people with alts, which this game allows 8 per server. Why are you punishing people with old accounts, ie those same people who "Earned it because they were subbed for long enough", because they didn't consider making an alt at the time?
There is literally nothing wrong with them adding old event items to the game for gil during that seasonal event.