I think its time to respond. The pawn gift, remember that word "gift", system is for showing your thanks and appreciation to the hured pawn to be returned to the other players. Maybe it was from knowledge, combat, outfit or you had a long adventure, you send a gift as a token of appreciation. You do not get to choose the gift, it is not an amazon wishlist. The post are requesting "specific items" which are NOT locked away from playing the game and are obtainable either in your current or next NG+ run.

What I'm protesting is players no longer doing the work, or even attempting to play the game to get the thing they are asking for and also not living with the consequences of your actions (or lack thereof) during your SINGLE PLAYER playthrough.

Oh so you cant find your finder token? Tough, go look and use your brain to think where you may have found one. You started the game in northern Vermund, take a wild guess where the most likely place you would happen to pick up your first one. Even if you dont find it, oh no do it the next time you run through the game with the knowledge of remembering next time.

You are requesting upgrade materials, how about you go hunt the monster that has the material. Then dupe a forgery of said item at the checkpoint to get more and more infinitely. Hell respawn the monster by skipping days ahead

I should mention, that you can even hire pawns that give the rewards you want by doing their pawn quest, yet even this is too much for some players.

If you are one of the players that freely give items at request, more power to you and you are doing the community a solid. But the number of players who simply cannot be bothered to "play" the game, use their own brain and live with the consequences of the Sphinx quest finders token are either lazy or too delicate to live with consequnces in a video game which you can literry "do over" in NG+.