Quote Originally Posted by Samcaesar View Post
I don't care for "It's exclusive!! Get over it!" arguments, they're dull and come from usually come from a either a "I've got myspecial thing, so why should I care if you can't have it?" perspective or a "I don't care about it, so why are you?" perspective. The point is, if SE somehow managed to give everyone who didn't have the current exclusive gear something entirely new (Maybe to garner some loyalty to new players who are upset about missive out on past event!), would everyone be so keen on the "Exclusive is exclusive, get over it" arguments?

Basically nothing is different about them lol, and honestly I don't see why the preorder items aren't at least on the mogstation, and that's speaking as someone who could've gotten the Baron's stuff on three different accounts if I had more than one account to give it to (Long and awkward story lol). The event's occurred twice now into the games lifespan, if not introducing the event over again, there should be some way for new players to get it as well. For preorder items, why not introduce a craftable version that takes a crap ton of rare items that'd be a pain in the butt to all gather up and have like a "Forged" bit added to the name to still give a genuine "I preordered it!" feel to the original versions. For the Lightning event items, why not slap them onto the mogstation and just push them on some in game vendor during one of the year's various events?
Which I have explained is not my position. I rather SE do something new with the lightning theme items than rehashing the same old stuff. How about new lightning themed gear that builds off of the old sets? I much rather SE spend time and effort on implementing stuff all players, new and old, can enjoy.

Just rehashing the event every year is boring. Also, there is no reason to promote ff13 anymore. Putting the items in the cash shop undermines the grinding people did for the items, it's essentially pay to win. It sucked waiting around for fates to pop, and there were more than your average holiday event grind. It's not like there is an "on/off" switch at someone's desk to put these events back in the game.

It's better to have the dev team put effort into new events and new rewards than having to pander to every new player that missed out on a promo that has served it's purpose. Sheesh, the entitlement with people on these forums.