White Raven earring given out at The Rising event 2018

[Kallera]

Make them a replica, and everyone will be happy, it's rare to have a solution that can please everyone, so when there is one, there's no reason not picking it.

I also want to thank Niqote and Canadane, as it takes some courage to create a topic like this or support it.

Indeed, this easily could have been a non issue, and yet here we still are.

[Freyt]

As a 2.0 launch player I couldn't care less about these earrings. I'm more disappointed that we're getting these instead of something cooler.

[Nestama]

The Rising event usually never has cool rewards, aside from minions and orchestrion rolls. Last year we got two minions, two rolls, the dyed bladder of an animal to dazzle players and a meteor-sparkler. The year before that it was two minions, a pillar and a banner.

[Ghoulheart]

Trivializing the value of something promised as a reward for effort put into the hardest content of 1.0 just so it can be given away for free now and sold for $5 next year is poor form on the devs who have already been burning through all their good will with how NA fanfest was handled, how Pagos was implemented, and how stunningly bad the companion app microtransactions are.

I own the earrings. I wore them and glamoured them for every day since I got them until I learned they were going to be given away. I stopped using them as their meaning has been nullified. Used to be I could run into another person who wore them and just /fistbump and have a laugh, or on the rare occasion get asked about them and reminisce on 1.0. I'll get over it, I largely already have after learning about this a few months ago. But it does point to how creatively bankrupt and underfunded the development team is if they couldn't be bothered to create 1 new rising themed asset for this year.

At best its a spit in the face to loyal 1.0 fans and a pushing of old assets onto new players who didn't ask for them so they could be sold on mogstation later. As many defenders have stated in this thread, nobody knew about them before this announcement, and nobody will care about them after the event has come and gone. The devs would have been better off not adding the earring rewards at all and nobody would have been any the wiser.

[Final-Fantasy]

The issue here is Entitlement.


Only entitled players will complain about old rewards being added to new events. It doesn't take away from how you personally obtained them!

[Kallera]

The issue here is Entitlement.


Only entitled players will complain about old rewards being added to new events. It doesn't take away from how you personally obtained them!

Relic and B.I.S weapons.

[Sarevok_Thordin]

The issue here is Entitlement.


Only entitled players will complain about old rewards being added to new events. It doesn't take away from how you personally obtained them!

Except it takes away that mark of being one of the few peoples who CAN display that because they earned it at that limited time. It's not like it's an event mogstation item that anyone could have gotten by simply logging in and following a few chatty questlines, you had to defeat the hardest battle in 1.0.

I'm not even a 1.0 player and I can see why this would leave 1.0 vets miffed.

[Skivvy]

The issue here is Entitlement.


Only entitled players will complain about old rewards being added to new events. It doesn't take away from how you personally obtained them!

This seems backwards to me. SE made the decision to let certain items carry over from 1.0. Mementos from another game and a special treat to those who spent their time and money playing it. Now we have a playerbase who is wanting these special items released to the general public, and when people take a stance against it, they get called snowflakes or entitled. Who exactly are the entitled ones?

[Zsolen]

This seems backwards to me. SE made the decision to let certain items carry over from 1.0. Mementos from another game and a special treat to those who spent their time and money playing it. Now we have a playerbase who is wanting these special items released to the general public, and when people take a stance against it, they get called snowflakes or entitled. Who exactly are the entitled ones?

That would still be the ones that want it exclusively for themselves. People made a request. SE answered. They didn't even put it on Mog Station.

[Skivvy]

That would still be the ones that want it exclusively for themselves. People made a request. SE answered. They didn't even put it on Mog Station.

ARR players don't deserve anything from 1.0, and yet they are constantly trying to appeal SE to release them. People who have never touched foot in 1.0 but still feel that they deserve to have these items suffer from entitlement issues.