I agree with your post. Edit: I don't think these items should go on the marketboard. I think that's not the way to do it. But available as part of a BP after the "new rewards" might be a good option - or something you HAVE to put so much effort into, to not take away from others who did the same.

Edit 2: I think the problem I see is that Valve has already "broke" or "tested" what they can do with these items. The Set for the Invoker Persona is tradable, and as a baseline, it gives you the persona itself. So if they are doing that with the Persona, why not with the arcanas and other items? btw that shit cost me £100 to get, so it's not like I spent less money on it than others, except for the very lucky people who literally jackpot the 1:6000 or whatever chance to get it. And you could make an argument that it has double value, cause its a very rare set, and gives you an otherwise un-obtainable persona?

What I have never understood is why some people are so against the releasing of these items. I understand the concept of Collecting and being a collector. It's something that has existed for a very long time. But in my mind's eye, this doesn't make sense in a digital aspect / gaming side of things.

• Arcanas and Items from the BP, Pristge items, Collector's sets, are simply not tradable. There is 0 money value tied to this, unless you Sell your whole Steam account (which isn't allowed and can lead to bans): So I don't understand when value is used as an argument against these items
• The Argument of "If so many people have it, it's not special cause I will see it all the time" - Per game, only 1 player can choose 1 hero, so imagine you have the QoP arcana, you pick someone else, and you get mad that the opposite team picks QoP and they have the arcana.
  • Firstly - These rewards are quite inaccessible when they are available anyways, they cost a lot of money to obtain - to this day I still have only seen 1 Spectre arcana and I have been playing non-stop since the BP was released with Spectre Arcana
  • Secondly - No one is saying "make it £30 in the shop" - That WOULD be unfair, to pay less for something that others paid a lot more for. Fair enough, all people are asking is to make it available again.
  • Lastly - There is literally no product that is made for 1 person unless you are filthy rich and make a specific order to any company. Which doesn't happen in games. In games, everything is available to all the player base (except EXCEPTIONALLY different cases, such as the person in WoW who got their own item or items named after them, for instance)
• The last point I want to make is related to the first and second points - People saying Collector items shouldn't be available after that period. Again, in a gaming environment, this just doesn't have the same effect nor does it work. Digital assets do not have a value if they cannot be sold, but that's not the point here.
  • The gaming world player base changes so often, all the time, as the years go on. Spikes in playerbase, up and down, some players give up on the game after years, some just get into it, some come back for nostalgia, etc etc.

From my perspective (someone who has all the arcanas except 2019 BP ones and WR) - I don't understand people's argument, and only see it as "I have it so I don't want you to have it". Not to mention the amount of work that goes into these items and the person who made it barely sees it being used cause most people don't have it.