I have no intention of denying you a right to complain, but some complaints are reasonable, and some are not. I do not find that these complaints are reasonable.
There is nothing wrong with having different contests on a regional basis (as long as each region still gets a contest). The one expectation I would have is that the prizes of each contest have similar monetary value.
You also have to consider the community contests. For instance, while I was actively admin'ing FFXIclopedia before the founder's move to GE, we got a rather valuable prize to give away to the winner of our art contest (which SE supported). Community sites ask SE if they can support a contest, and because of this, you get many conetsts on our side of the pond that may be totally different and maybe even better than what you see in Japan. The reason the contests are different is because they are devised by different people. I really don't think there's much more to it than that.
Liiterally the only reason this thread even started was because the JP forum event involved finding something in the game, which an NA player happened to come across. If that egg wasn't there, we wouldn't be having this conversation. So it seems to me that people are truly more bothered about the fact that their event included something in-game (even though it was trivial and uninteresting), more than they are bothered about us getting different events, because nobody noticed this before now, and now we're suddenly on a holy crusade for equality.
Again, to avoid any confusion: This post and all previous ones are specifically in reference to this contest issue. There are true inequality issues elsewhere (e.g. communication) but their addressability in many cases is limited.
No, good faith is giving us a contest, with a comparable reward. The nature of the contest itself is not relevant. If they gave us a "better" contest with a "better" prize, would you still be complaining? Or would your heart be pining for the japanese to get the exact same event as us in the name of equality?Good faith is an egg hunt not a PVP or a cake baking contest.
I still think you are reading way too far into it. This is all I have to say- you really should wait and see what happens before passing further judgement.