Why not just give up on timed quests and any sort of exclusive extras? Just make everything available for everyone, make all events and such permanently present so that all people can get all the goodies, no matter when they come or what they do. Better yet, forget about events and quests, just add the rewards from them straight to the cash shop. Why not?

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No, seriously though. I'm sick of people not being able to grasp the simple concept of "timed exclusives". You weren't there - sorry for you, but that's how it is, move on. I'm sad that I couldn't get the original goobbue mount in 1.0, or the whatever horn it is some event rewarded players with - never once did I ask for any of those to be put in the cash shop. They were there, I didn't get them, that's that.

And everyone can poke fun at people "wanting to feel like special snowflakes" when it comes to items like this, and their later availability in the game, but hello - they are things with the core concept of them being this exact goal. They are "rare", they are only available temporary, yes of course it'll make people who get them want to preserve that "special snowflake" status it gives them. One could say "working as intended", because that's really the case.