This is just appalling

[doglord]

The community really brought this situation on itself. Some of you may recall that a few years back, a character named Lightning would occasionally drop into Eorzea. This was extremely successful and we had a number of new players who missed these clamoring for the next Lightning event

However, a vocal minority of players who had already participated in the Lightning event insisted that Lightning should stay out of Eorzea forever. And the developers listened, for whatever reason, and threw the Lightning gear on the mog station instead, where the hordes of Lightning fans no doubt bought it as a sort of consolation prize.

Now, look at this from the perspective of a Square Enix executive: They see players loudly demanding that they don't want anymore world events, and at the same time, those same (apparently) players are buying huge amounts of gear off the Mog Station. I have no doubt that YoshiP is being ordered at this very moment to cut back on cool new world events and spend more time selling knick-knacks and baubles for the Mog Station, and it's all because you guys didn't want Lightning to Return to Eorzea.