Topic on exclusive items

[Niwashi]

What I want to know is, why is it so wrong to have something that no one else is able to gain? I put in the time/money/effort to get something I want when it was available.

And in exchange for having put in that time/money/effort you have that something. Nobody is taking it away from you. You wanted something. You did an event either because you liked the event or because you wanted its items, so now you have those items. So you're good regardless of what ends up happening later with other players getting those items or not. It has no bearing on you either way.

What I mean is speedo like Coeurl Beach Brief or 1.0 swimsuit but recolored.

I'm just hoping they don't come out with half a dozen again that are identical except for color. Honestly, why couldn't we have just gotten briefs and had them be dyable rather than getting the red briefs and the blue briefs and the green briefs and the gold briefs, ... (sigh)

Even in RL, companies make stuff such as limited edition figures or cards, that is limited in number and only sold during a certain period until sold out.

And so does this game, but there's a difference between a company making a limited edition item and customers who've bought a regular (non-limited) item telling the company to stop making it so that it will become exclusive.

When 1.x was closing, SE apologized to their customers for having to shut the game down for a while and offered them a couple exclusives if they come back when the game re-opens. They got the legacy tattoo and I think it was the legacy chocobo. (Was the old style gobbue mount part of that as well, or just something that was only released during 1.0? I'm not sure, as I'm not legacy. If so, then that counts as well.) Those were offered as exclusives so should always stay exclusive.

When 1.0 first released, then again when 2.0 first released and when the 3.0 expansion first released, people were offered exclusive extras if they would buy the game or expansion in advance. Those pre-order bonuses were explicitly offered as exclusives that would no longer be available after release. They were sold as exclusives, so should always stay exclusive.

Where I (and a number of other people from what I've read) have a problem is with the people who want SE to change things that came out as regular items, with no offer of exclusivity on them, and change course to make them exclusive (after they've gotten their own copy of course). This would include things like the items from seasonal or promotional events. The Lightning outfit, for example, was never an exclusive, so there's no reason to make it one now.

Digital Collectors edition = you don't get any of the physical content. There is still exclusivity (as I mentioned in my first post).

The full Collector's Edition, with all the physical content is also still available. It's not and never has been a Limited edition. There's nothing exclusive about it except that some people chose to buy it and others chose not to. (It's an actual edition of the game, though. The CE "upgrade" has always been digital only.)