The long search for the lost shoes (aka: where are my Hermes Sandals?)

[Monsalvato]

Perhaps if enough people show interest/support, SE will consider flagging them as account items

They already were flagged as account, I had them on 3 characters at the time.
It's probably like Atherial said, it was a temporary promotion which somehow expired without nobody noticing or them telling us.

I don't want to whine over measure, the item is not even *that* useful now that we have Spring, but still I'm a bit OCD and a bit of a packrat, and I'd really love to be able to get them again or, if not possible, to transfer them from my old characters to the new one.


@Eondil
Sorry but I had 3 characters, created at different time (one at launch, 2 much later, shortly before FFXIV 1.0 stopped being for free) and all of them had Hermes Shoes.

[Monsalvato]

My Onion Helm and Asuran Armguards were in my armoire, so there's a good chance your Hermes Sandals might be there.

As I tried to mention before, I'm not 100% but pretty confident Hermes Shoes are *still* on my old characters.
Thing is that I want to create (already did, actually) a new character to play ARR, and I would have loved to get Hermes Shoes on him as well just like I received all the other limited "special" items ^^'

[Punainen]

As an owner of Hermes' shoes I can confirm that they were only available to the characters created while you were simultaneously subscribed to XI and XIV during the time of that promotion. I know because I created TWO characters while subscribed to both, cancelled my XI subscription, and the alts I made after that did not get the shoes.

Would seem like now they oughta be account wide, since my alts who need it the most ('cause they spend more of their time running around town) don't have them, but that's not what SE did. Shucks. :/

[Bayohne]

Hey gang,

Don't panic! The Hermes' shoes are still with the characters that obtained them in version 1.0.
However, as they are not account bound items, they will not appear in the list of items you see registered to your account or on new characters.

[Gibsauce]

They already were flagged as account...

Yeah, I meant more along the lines of flagging them now for our 2.0 characters, so they are mailed to all of our existing/new characters (not unlike the Onion Helm, Asuran Armguards, etc.). I kind of doubt it will happen, but you never know with the new dev team!

Would seem like now they oughta be account wide, since my alts who need it the most ('cause they spend more of their time running around town) don't have them, but that's not what SE did. Shucks. :/

Indeed. It would be a small, but appreciated quality of life change (hate to see them go to waste).

[Monsalvato]

Hey gang,

Don't panic! The Hermes' shoes are still with the characters that obtained them in version 1.0.
However, as they are not account bound items, they will not appear in the list of items you see registered to your account or on new characters.

Thanks for the attention Bayohne, but unlike other people I wasn't afraid they disappeared from old characters.
Was kinda asking if there could be a chance to obtain them on new characters.
I am currently subscribed to FFXI, have been for the past 10 years and have no intention to stop at least for a good while.

Any chance we can get them, or have a GM "Move" them from one character to another? Pretty please?

[Laperouge]

Hermes sandals... Care to help me find my Mog Fists? Can't find them anywhere on my char.

[Darkshade]

As I tried to mention before, I'm not 100% but pretty confident Hermes Shoes are *still* on my old characters.
Thing is that I want to create (already did, actually) a new character to play ARR, and I would have loved to get Hermes Shoes on him as well just like I received all the other limited "special" items ^^'

Absolutely this. I have been subscribed concurrently almost the full duration to FFXI since North American PS2 launch. I now wish to main a second character on a new server to experience the game with non legacy friends from the ground up and still have my XI account active and feel that I should receive these as an account bound item. I hope this gets enough support to get notice from developers. Thanks.

[Viscount]

I'm missing my Hermes sandals too. They wernt there in p3 or in p4 and i only have one toon and hes been rolled over.

[Iryu]

Hey gang,

Don't panic! The Hermes' shoes are still with the characters that obtained them in version 1.0.
However, as they are not account bound items, they will not appear in the list of items you see registered to your account or on new characters.

My Hermes' Shoes were missing P3 and P4, and I've only ever had one character, which did have Hermes' Shoes.