It had nothing to do with legacy status, It had to do with if you paid up until the last day:

Currently, we are temporarily imposing login restriction on the players whose "End Date" is September 29, 2012 or before due to congestion
As seen in this post: http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...c3bfe14aa7aa8a

Are you sure the error you were getting was because they told you you were ineligible and not the same "server timeout" error that EVERYONE, including legacy members was seeing all night?

I understand your frustration but know that I was playing FFXIV since beta version, got my legacy status, even logged in a few times during the "Non-Save" week just to check it out and I too spent 2 hours trying to log into the final event with no luck.

So yes, be mad; but no, this was not "we love legacy." It was, we did not plan correctly and the event failed.