Promotionnal items

[seraf]

Because people will whine about "you just had to buy it back then when you did not know about the game / was no more left"
It makes them feel "special" just like the event items, titles etc thus the whinning when they strarted adding past event items in the Cs like Lightning hairstyle.

Exclusive items should remain exclusive. I don't see why people feel entitled to everything and if you missed out I'm sorry but that's life.

[Celef]

But why not propose those items through the mog kiosk once they aren't redeemable anymore?

Exclusive items should remain exclusive. I don't see why people feel entitled to everything and if you missed out I'm sorry but that's life.

See Arutan, did not need to wait too long to get your answer


And what about thos who wanted to get the item but had to face sold out ? Should they be punished for SE's inability to manage their stock properly ?
Why does it feel so good to know you (general you, not you you Seraf) have something another person does not have instead of helping him to get it too ? will it ruin the pleasure ?

[Wanzer]

To OP :

[Arutan]

To OP :

I don't know what you mean

[Enkidoh]

And what about thos who wanted to get the item but had to face sold out ? Should they be punished for SE's inability to manage their stock properly ?
Why does it feel so good to know you (general you, not you you Seraf) have something another person does not have instead of helping him to get it too ? will it ruin the pleasure ?

Because if they produce too many items for the demand they're left at the other extreme with a ton of useless merchandise no one wants - this was what happened with FFXIV 1.0's Collector's Edition - SE overestimated demand and produced far more CE versions than what was sold, leading to a glut of unsold stock (I remember seeing one 1.0 CE version sitting unloved at my local EB Games for literally 8 months after 1.0's launch with a heavy discount on it), to the point SE later instructed all retailers still with unsold FFXIV 1.0 stock to return them to SE for disposal.

As unused 1.0 copies's registration codes actually are useable for ARR (in other words, owning 1.0 entitles you to download ARR for free), as are it's item codes (Onion Helm for Collector's Edition, Garlond Goggles for the 'standard' edition, which is actually harder to find ironically.), remaning unopened copies of FFXIV 1.0 (both CE and standard version) are selling for huge amounts on sites like eBay. No doubt SE wants to avoid a repeat of this and so now has ARR merchandise in-game item codes with a default use-by date, specifically to avoid onselling.

[Pintsized]

Exclusive items should remain exclusive. I don't see why people feel entitled to everything and if you missed out I'm sorry but that's life.

Actually it's a game, also there's nothing special about the fact you happened to be playing the game at a specific point in time, sorry to disappoint you but you're not special for happening to be in the right place at the right time.

[Arutan]

Exclusive items should remain exclusive. I don't see why people feel entitled to everything and if you missed out I'm sorry but that's life.

V

Actually it's a game, also there's nothing special about the fact you happened to be playing the game at a specific point in time, sorry to disappoint you but you're not special for happening to be in the right place at the right time.

And also, an exclusive item IRL is exclusive because it's made of precious materials, or contains lots of valuable things like masterpiece crafted items, or both at the same time, which is what a collector edition usually is. They produce it at little quantity because it's either really expensive to make or because they sell it at a loss.
We're here talking about some data that can be infinitely generated. Where is the exclusivity? The only thing that makes it "exclusive" is because SE said "we are now stoping to generate it!". They don't pay anything else once the item exists, and they only get benefits by selling it, which is the whole point of the mog kiosk.

[ReplicaX]

Actually it's a game, also there's nothing special about the fact you happened to be playing the game at a specific point in time, sorry to disappoint you but you're not special for happening to be in the right place at the right time.

There is really only one instance where items were special playing at a specific point in XIV. However, they were earned ingame or rewarded for supporting the company during a very rare event in the industry and genre. They were not a promotional item.

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