I'll be frank here, I hate limited time content in games, always have. It does absolutely nothing but reward people who were lucky enough to happen to play a game at a certain time, or it mentally forces people to do stuff like pre-ordering, and buying special stuff.
I'll lay this out for you simply:
- limited time content = small number of people are happy
- content available to everyone at all time = everyone is happy
Since this game has no micro-transactions, it's completely pointless to make stuff time limited (i'm fine with stuff like the day one patch, as it shows a player's love and support for the game), since it doesn't create a mental burden for people to buy doubloons or gold for real money, before the content is no longer available.
It puts a huge hole in my soul (as a completionist player who wants to get absolutely everything the game has to offer) every single time I find out there existed content in a game that is no longer available.
I was lucky enough to decide to play the game as the Wailing Barnacle ship set was available, and I got every item from it. But just today I find out there were Wailing Barnacle clothes, weapons and possibly even equipment...... WHAT?! Not only that. They were available only all the way back in July 2018!
Who's idea was it to section up the Wailing Barnacle set, and make it available in parts (Clothes, ship, (equipment?), weapons), throughout different time periods. Honestly how does that benefit anyone? Not a single player in existence is going to feel happy that they missed out on content. I genuinely don't get why games do this.
Either bring back all limited time items for good and introduce a micro-transactions system, or don't create limited time content in the first place. It's a waste of time for the artists when only a very small amount of people can admire their art. And it's a waste of a good experience for players when they find out they missed out on content. It honestly feels like everyone on earth is just kinda accepting it since I never see anyone on the entire internet complaining about it, or there's some crucial information I'm somehow missing as to why the hell anyone would make content time-limited.
P.S. Sorry this turned into a rant, but I hope you get my point. There is absolutely no point to limited time content if it's not even done to get the company a quick buck.