Some of the incentive for FFXIV players is that they want the codes not the item. There's a lot of retired items I wish they'd have kept myself. I hate games that retire items and it's one of the biggest flaws of FFXIV I find. That and items that are locked behind $150 statues. I tried buying the Odin state also when it released but it wasn't available for purchase right off the bat. I don't think I'd want to pay $150 for an emote though either but the statue did look interesting and considered buying it at the time. However giving it an emote was ridiculous. There's some retired item codes I wish I code have obtained but I'm a student in university and my costs need to be managed with many other things so at times I might not get around to the item til much later even a couple years. That's how I missed out on the Bahamut minion. I also think it's ridiculous putting the codes behgind items. I don't want the items I want the ingame items. Retiring items in this game already isn't so great. The glamour is limited and even tossing orchestration roles to time limited items on square enix store can really lose it's effect even for advertising for the free company. There's event clothes I tossed when I started the game because I didn't know of the armoire at the time in 2.0 and didn't have retainer space. Unfortunately there are several items that never went to the Mogstation like several bikini's for female characters. I found the perfect top for one of my cosplay glamours but it was locked behind being a retired item on one of the swimsuits. I also couldn't make it fanfest last year in New Vegas though I paid for it but I couldn't recieve the minion and glam I from it and even though they just released the glamour they still left the minions locked. I know of quite a few people wanting that cloud mount and the original fat chocobo however it's all locked behind retired items and they haven't marketed them to mogstation. So retiring items is a huge disappointment. In regards even if we got to wait a year it'd be nice if event and square enix items just all ended up on mogstation without the items from square enix to buy.