We don't need them anymore.

[BlisteringFrost]

You know what, I agree. All cosmetics should be available to all players. And they should be earned the exact same way as they were originally. Want some glam from an old extreme or savage? Run it synced. Unsynced runs no longer give any drops at all. This includes mounts, minions, you name it. Want some feast title or item? Get the equivalent rank and you can have it.

Not good enough to run content synced successfully or to get high enough in pvp?

To.

Fucking.

Bad.

I don't disagree but it'd ironically be a bad thing. The people who would've already wanted stuff from it will have it. Up and comers wanting stuff will thusly be left incapable of completing it due to lacking bodies or players good enough to do it. They need to make Epic Echo not trash and just let us 1 or 2 shot Non-Forced Synced content if we're 10 or more levels above the content.

[IOwn92FCHouses]

I don't disagree but it'd ironically be a bad thing. The people who would've already wanted stuff from it will have it. Up and comers wanting stuff will thusly be left incapable of completing it due to lacking bodies or players good enough to do it. They need to make Epic Echo not trash and just let us 1 or 2 shot Non-Forced Synced content if we're 10 or more levels above the content.

Not true. They just need to grind pvp or find 7 other people who want the thing, same as the original earners did. If they can't or don't want to put in the effort to join or form a group? Oh well. It's just pixels, right? Not a big deal at all.

That's okay, just use RMT and hire a group to wintrade in PVP, just like the 'bad' players earned it in the 'good old days'.

And that's your rignt! And, if you get banned in the process, as some win traders experienced back in the day? It's just pixels. You can begin again with a new character and re-earn all those pixels.

[Heroman3003]

You know what, I agree. All cosmetics should be available to all players. And they should be earned the exact same way as they were originally. Want some glam from an old extreme or savage? Run it synced. Unsynced runs no longer give any drops at all. This includes mounts, minions, you name it. Want some feast title or item? Get the equivalent rank and you can have it.

Not good enough to run content synced successfully or to get high enough in pvp?

To.

Fucking.

Bad.

That's okay, just use RMT and hire a group to wintrade in PVP, just like the 'bad' players earned it in the 'good old days'.

[RedLolly]

I know some players have earned the finale mounts of a few previous expansion's extremes via Moogle Treasure Troves.

[Kaurhz]

I have a love/hate relationship with this...

I can understand the effort put into things and valuing that.

But this game doesn't really facilitate long-form at all... Beyond a certain point that content is just irrelevant and then the value ultimately just comes more from the obscurity of the content itself rather than the difficulty itself.

and solving that... making it long form" involves far more than just stripping things such as undersized parties, to be honest.

As for PvP... I think reward structure could've been better designed.

[Burmecia]

Talking about wintrading is pretty pointless: the glamours were exclusive to the veterans despite it having happened - until they weren't.

Same with White Ravens (for 1.0 players who did the quest/grind) and preorder earrings (for people who paid rl money). Guess the difference is that no one kept parroting "yes yes no one will ever have these again" - until something changed.

Random commen from Reddit which caught my eye yesterday:
(Discussion about this article: Link)

"They just changed their CEO not long ago, and he has instituted a 3 year plan to reform the company. Latest earnings report claims they will be shifting from product-out approach to market-in approach (focusing on whatever market want instead of what they want to make). Will that change things?"

I know they're talking about new projects mainly. But ff14 isn't negligible older project yet. Maintaining it's dwindling popularity by same philosophy doesn't seem impossibly far fetched. In other words, stopping people from dropping ff14 by giving us what vast majority wants should be second best scenario, where luring new people in is the best.
Will those statue emotes arrive to Mogstation next?

Anyway, #SquareEnix, I would like to give you money for Cait Sith minion next, thank you!

[Catwho]

I'm honestly surprised it hasn't happened already. Not everybody wants the physical merchandise (assuming a given piece is even still available), but they would gladly pay for the emotes and minions that come attached to them.

At least its just emotes. FFXI had a Leviathan pendant that came with the ability to teleport yourself and your whole party directly to an endgame zone (Nashmau) that otherwise took a ferry that only ran every 15 minutes. I can't remember how much I paid for it, but the outcry was enormous because it was.... not a very well made pendant. It was silver plated pewter on a plastic strap. You were paying $100 for a friggin teleport.

(I still have the pendant. I put it on a better strap though.)

[CCheshire]

At least its just emotes. FFXI had a Leviathan pendant that came with the ability to teleport yourself and your whole party directly to an endgame zone (Nashmau) that otherwise took a ferry that only ran every 15 minutes. I can't remember how much I paid for it, but the outcry was enormous because it was.... not a very well made pendant. It was silver plated pewter on a plastic strap. You were paying $100 for a friggin teleport.

(I still have the pendant. I put it on a better strap though.)

Well we have a $400 emote that tells everyone in LL that you're bad with money that came with a free statue too.