Lightning/Snow Event

[Greedalox]

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Soooo... you got the lightning haircut, but missed out on Au'ra. Seems to be working as intending in your scenario.

[Samcaesar]

Soooo... you got the lightning haircut, but missed out on Au'ra. Seems to be working as intending in your scenario.

Sure, why not? I mean, I'm obviously not an Au Ra and while I'd love to make something like it, the girl options for the race don't appeal to me currently, so I'm not missing out on much, I could however, absolutely adore the Lightning haircut for my Miqo'te (Not saying I do though lol). If you argue for time exclusivity, there ought to be something to balance it out for new players, their money is the same value as yours and it's all green to SE.

[Greedalox]

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http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...teran_rewards/

There ya go. Rewards for play time!

Let me put it this way. You don't like exclusivity. Some people like exclusivity. Why is your view of "If I want it I get it even if others aren't happy" so much more important? Others play this game too, and there are two exclusivity systems already in place. One that makes one group happy, and another that makes the other happy. Veteran rewards are matched with how much you support FF and Exclusive Event Rewards are for those who supported the game during a certain time.

[Samcaesar]

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Examine why you don't want other people to have it for a moment, if it sums up to "I like it because I managed to do 20 minutes worth of effort, and you can't have that." then you're being selfish (Which most people consider a thing to not be). It's neither detrimental to you (Unless if exclusively owning items is so important to you that it'd cause stress if new players had it in which case, like seriously re-examine your personal values, because you're being massively selfish), is hard to put into the game (In game vendors each event time with the previous years items), nor is it a bad thing at all (Because since when it allowing new players to have the same items you got for free a bad thing?). Besides that, Veterans Rewards are the only acceptable "time exclusive"/"I supported the game for this long" thing imho, they're also a completely free bonus that comes with just owning that many days in game that any player can get for zero effort and they're all account wide. Heck, assuming you've played that long, you'd have both the Veteran rewards and the Event items.

You're are acting like Event items are 100% akin to Veteran Rewards and they're two very different things. One is an entirely free in game bonus that you get on all characters currently made or made in the future, the other is either stuck in "Never going to be available again" or "Pay additional fees for this item on one character".