Event Furniture

[Mikki]

I have a serious problem with event furniture. Currently, if you have acquired glamour from an event and you dispose of it you can get another copy of it for an in-game gil charge from the journeyman salvager.

However, if you participated in an event and bought a furnishing item there is no way to get another one, except to wait an entire year for the item to come out on the mog station and to pay a pretty high fee - especially for items you might want to buy many of (for example, the cherry trees).

So, to prevent this from happening I currently just buy several of the same furnishing item in case I'll want more of it later for some reason. One I was glad I did this with was the far eastern doll display after I had seen it could be used as stairs. I've bought tons of donuts from this event as the emptied baskets look like they might be cute for putting other things into.

But then there's the problem of space. Furniture can't stack so it takes a ton of space in my inventory. Honestly, I think something needs to be done about this.

Ideally, I'd like if you could purchase furniture items from the salvager if you participated in the event and bought at least 1 copy during the event's run. At the very least though, please allow furniture to stack. :/ When "placing" one down, clearly only one from the stack would be removed. I don't get why this isn't already a thing.... If it is a consumable, then after it has been placed if some has been consumed, THEN don't allow it to stack anymore.

Anyone else have this problem? Or am I alone in not wanting to suddenly be struck with a brilliant decoration idea, only to be shot down because I'll have to spend real life money for an event item that I actually participated in and bought one of already? (And, I'm not even stingy with my money.... I buy a loooot of stuff off the mog station.. and I have no problem accepting that if you didn't participate in the event, then you'll have to buy it through the mog station).

Thoughts?

[Taebok]

As someone who just bought an army of little starlight snowmen, I concur.

[Vidu]

I'd really like that too - I'm owning an apartment only to store event-furniture in there. And I made an alt-character that was only used to store furniture aswell...

The only "problem" I see here is that often the furniture isnt bought with gil but with special event-tokens, so they might be reluctant to sell it for gil (and essentially taking away peoples reason to farm their FATEs and mini-games). Personally I wouldnt see that as a bad thing (I did enjoy the Starlight-Game, but I could have spent those 3 hours I invested in farming else...) and would welcome to just being able to rebuy them for gil... but I could also settle to add them for token-sale to one of the "all-year-round"-vendors. At least the tokens stack and give me the option to choose later - while I'm hoarding every type of furniture by now and bought well over 10 of each kind, I can see myself biting my ass in a year when I realise that just ONE more snowman would do the trick here...

[Gemina]

Because of the limited space, this idea has never occurred to me with event items. I have used decoration techniques that require a lot of one item to pull off though, but found that it is quite a hassle for me and eats up tons of my playtime.

The only other issue I see is on SEs end telling us if we snooze we lose because of those cash shop sales.

[Dustytome]

One of the big problems SE likely has with this, is that someone can then purchase an infinite amount of these items and sell/give them out via placement permissions (tenant or fc permissions). That costs them mogstation sales. They would need to either not care (hah) or attach a userid to a bound item that requires that user to be associated with the placed estate or the item is removed.

[Mikki]

I've also considered some of these thoughts. I was thinking, perhaps they only allow us to repurchase the items during the actual event - similar to how sometimes they allow you to buy past event items during certain events already. If you participated in the past event then I think you should be able to buy those items again the next time it rolls around. This way, those who are impatient would still give sales on the mogstation and it would cut down, at least a little bit, on people bypassing buying the item themselves since they'd have to wait until the event comes again and ask a friend (supposing that friend even has access to the item as well).

I think this would be a fair and pretty balanced way to go about it. I know a lot of people won't want to wait and would purchase from the mog shop, but for those with patience who already did the event I think it's only fair that they can repurchase again if they so please when the event turns up again.