Commemorative Coin

[Anonymoose]

What I DON'T think is that the coin will be for something worthwhile and SE will tell everyone who traded it in "too bad."

To be fair, I'm not sure how worthwhile a worthless moghouse furning would be, lol. I'm sure there are even people who caravan the nights away who would rather have another 25k in their pocket than a DAT's art packet on the wall.

the huge 25k seals for the promotion is more of a "check" to say "you gotta earn this before we promote you. We won't keep them, but we have to see you've earned them."

I don't disagree with that at all; that's the only justifiable reason to take what should have been a 4,500 seal promotion and hike it by 20,500 seals. However, if neither of the other 2 options I mentioned are in play (or the third "they're planning something" paranoia option), why not just give back the 25k upon quest completion? Why add that extra step? Certainly not just for the opportunity for sentimentality or they'd have given the 25k AND the coin instead of AS the coin.

everyone wants something no one else has, but no one wants to not be able to get something someone else has.

While I don't disagree, and while I don't want to sound callous, people are going to have to learn to live with that regardless of what they do with this coin. This is how the world works. I missed out on the Reindeer Costume and the Dragon Helms (my freaking zodiac!) due to university and I'm not tearing up the forums about it. It's as much my own fault for not logging in during exams that it would be if someone gave up their coin.

People who didn't buy collectors have to deal with not ever having the complete onion set. People who didn't play during 1.0 will have to deal with the fact that they can't have a goobbue. People years from now will have to deal with the fact that they pay more than legacy members... and if they do something with this coin, people who traded it in are going to have to live with the fact that they made their decision.