This is a terrible idea.
These items should never be re-released. BD shouldn't even be tradable IMO.
We were told from the start that both BD and Humanian faces were never coming back. This should be the end of the discourse. It's really simple.
Do you even have any idea just how difficult and time consuming it actually was to get either of these things during their respective caps?
It's insulting to the people who earned them to even suggest bringing them back.
As for the points you made:
1) 1/100 or 1/200 is not a 'low' drop rate at all. For the only exclusive item in the game, it should be at least 1/100k, if not 1/1m. But really, it shouldn't come back ever again.
2) STG won't be making money for 'years' off of these crates, as not a lot of the crates will drop - let alone stay unopened.
3) The items are not exclusive if people can earn them years later for a fraction of the effort it took previously. Again, it's insulting to the people who spent hours earning them in the first place.
4) New players shouldn't be able to get the rarest items in the game within a month of playing. Some items shouldn't even be possible to obtain more than once; like BD and Humania faces.
5) BM will always exist. Not everyone has access to platinum, and even then, gold is infinitely more desirable with the way trading works in this game now. You can't stop BM in WoW, LoL, BDO, and etc... let alone in a decade old indie mmo.
It's extremely bad business to re-release items that were said to be exclusive upon release.
Some items should literally not be available to players who were not around when the items/faces were released. Some exclusivity needs to exist now that everything is tradable. New players do not deserve a chance to farm for either of these items because they weren't around when they were released. It's simple, honestly. It's not being elitist, either: Brand Loyalty and sense of accomplishment is an important thing in any MMO.
Rereleasing either of these items is a slap in the face to all of the remaining veteran players. And I can guarantee that a large portion of the remaining community will be very angry, if not quit if these items are rereleased.
It's not our problem that you guys weren't around when these items were released. And complaining about it doesn't mean they should be re-released either.
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