Quote Originally Posted by Araxes View Post
It is pretty simple to me. We (the PvPers back then) were sold a Time limited Premium reward for achieving a certain Goal. For the sake of comparison: imagine yourself participating in a sports tournament or a Card Game tournament. You practice and train. You are told you get a unique and time limited Trophy, reward, whatever. You actually win! You did not think you could but you did! You get your Time limited Exclusive Trophy! You are so happy!

Years Later the same thing gets sold for a few bucks at a souvenir store with the small word (replica) printed on the back where no one can see it. Now they all run around and claim they won the tournament.
Anyone who has the original feast gear will still have their bragging rights as their gear won't say "replica" on it. Im not sure how the mounts will work but anyone using the replica gear and claiming to have won it in the feast all those years ago will easily be called out just from the name of their gear for not actually winning it from the original feast.

Your trophy scenario also applies because someone who wasn't on the team that won the football superbowl could easily just 3D print the trophy. They could even pay a lot of money to have a replica trophy casted in real gold that looks basically 1 to 1 of the real thing. But no matter how many trophies they replicate, they will never be able to say that they earned the real one and if they do try to do that then anyone will quickly call them a liar.

You have the original and no one can say otherwise. That along with the feeling of accomplishment for winning top 100 is reward enough in my honest opinion for the veterans.