With the FANTASIAN Neo Dimension items leaving the store soon, it seems to be a good time to make a thread about this since the amount of FOMO and time-gated items in this game seems to have been increasing for the last several years.

With limited funds, and unexpected things that come up, FOMO and time gated / time limited items really just feel bad. It just gives a feeling of frustration and disengagement when items are unobtainable, whether due to lack of time, energy, or money. Getting all the FANTASIAN Neo Dimension items also costs $75 USD. Couldn't it go on sale before leaving the store? I can't afford that, let alone the fact that $75 is an absolutely insane price for a game of this price with a subscription. I know it was announced to be time limited before-hand, but I'm a bit confused as to why these are time-limited in the first place? They weren't up on the store for very long, I'm surprised they weren't permanent considering they're from a game made by Sakaguchi.

One of the main reasons I play this MMO instead of others, is because FFXIV has less of this FOMO / time gated stuff that the others do. This is great! But as more of this stuff gets added to the game it adds a lot of unnecessary stress. I quit PvP for awhile after missing the linkpearl emote because it pretty much killed whatever fun I having, only started up again recently since they finally gave the ability to buy old rewards from the vendor. Even then, a 2.5 year delay from the items disappearing to being sold in the vendor is way too long.

I'm worried about the new progression system shown for Evercold. It was mentioned it's not a battle pass, and that Yoshi. P and Koji Fox mentioned not needing to pay anything for it, which is great, but please don't put any time gated items in it for rewards. Thank you for your consideration.