This is NOT FAIR. Whatever you intended to do (which I assume was just retire the items) is not what happened.
So you basically have most of your players with access to something they see as a LTO, and the rest of us are just out of luck?
I have spent a shameful amount of money with your company (well over 1K), across 5 games, but there are more & more issues that just make me want to spend my money elsewhere.
The way you solve this is to allow access to ALL players. You already messed up, and with over half of players getting the items, the others should have the chance as well.
Seriously, TL. Fix this the RIGHT way.