Concerned about most recent 'Optional Items' update

After logging in today I noticed something that kind of rubbed me in the wrong way.
Now first of all let met me tell you that I am by no means fully against an optional items option, and I love this game to bits.
What does bother me though is that what was added was 20 hats that are basically a full year old, and cost 1/5th of a monthly sub EACH. Of course you can argue that these items are completely optional and you do not HAVE to have them, but after being able to buy them for 10 gil at a vendor last year during the event,having to pay 2.10 euros EACH just sounds like an extremely cheap cash in for a free-to-play model mmo.

I didn't find the right solution from the Internet.

References:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threa...al-Items-update.

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