Depending on what you see as sparse. Not everyone lives in a big city or near one. For some 80km (in total) might not be so much, for me this is quite the way to drive for the next Gamestop to maybe get some codes..I would have bought something online but it seems that long line of mistakes from SE continues and it does not include online shops even though its says so on the lodestone..really if I already have lots of disappointed customers..one should a least triple check if the campaigns are without mistakes in their description.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dmal
About the EU campaign for maid outfit and fat chocobo
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11-23-2016, 02:21 AMAlleo
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11-23-2016, 04:39 AMKhazarIm from spain and im really dissapointed, do something about it, sell it in the moogle cash shop at least, at the end you had to use your cash to obtain them in the other countries anyways, so, whatsup with the exclusive matter?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kahuna
I had certain trust in the FFXIV Square-enix team and things like this makes it go down, so please at least pass our dissapointments to Yoshi-P... -
11-23-2016, 05:34 AMLeannaYou know what defeat the purpose of a promotion?Quote:
Originally Posted by TiaHariberux3
Not allow people of X country to participate because the company is unable to find a way.
Not everyone know someone who is willing to pay 20 or 30€ for an item for someone else.
If SE isn't capable of make a real promotion, they should just add the item to the MogShop and let everyone have it. -
11-23-2016, 05:37 AMTiaHariberux3Well they tried atleast + I meant asking a friend who actually sends u the item u purchase to u lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Leanna
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11-23-2016, 07:50 AMToranja
I do not approve of this.
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11-23-2016, 05:00 PMSpiritMuse
Honestly this whole campaign has been a fragmented mess. It would have been much better to go with one big internationally selling company instead of trying to make small deals with small local companies that sell out of their promotional stuff in a day.
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11-23-2016, 05:08 PMdeoslet me give you some numbers: there are 7 gamestops in munich, but from there on there are zero to its south or east up to the austrian border, meaning if you are living in that area (like me), the next one is in munich, which can be up to 150km away (well in some spare cases a shop in austria would actually be closer, but still comparably far away). and that is just one region, the situation is similar all over germany. germany is quite a big country, 100 shops is not nearly enough to cover it well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dmal
not everybody can casually drive 100+ km just to get some bonus items!
if it were not for the fact that i work in munich and drive there over one hour (one way) every day, i would have had to skip it (but as the timing is good with a certain game releasing today that i wanted to buy anyway i will just snatch the promo items as a bonus)
gamestop was NOT a good choice. especially because online ordering does not give the codes (wtf??)
and on top of that, this is the last of the EU events with 2 regions getting none? aside from france (with amazon), every EU region got a really bad deal! SE, you really disappointed here!!! -
11-23-2016, 06:29 PMSynrinI know right.. The promotion was a miss from the beginning...Quote:
Originally Posted by Leanna
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11-23-2016, 06:57 PMRakiria
If they could at least have told te countried that don't get a promotion now sooner... Guess I'll have to creep around GameStop now to ask people if they need their codes to get enough for my friends, for myself i still need something from there anyway, but for my friends me getting them codes is pretty much their only option now...
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11-23-2016, 07:11 PMSerilda
The biggest problem was always communication. Because they were still negotiating deals, people in regions without their own promotion were kept waiting and missed the campaigns they could actually have used. And then there were cases like the UK magazine where customers in other countries could have participated except that it was announced too late to mail order the first issues, making it actually impossible unless you happened to have a UK-based friend who happened to live in a location with a shop with multiple copies in stock (I had to travel an hour away from home for mine). If the Amazon France campaign had come after the admission that all of the other countries were out of luck, people could have tried their luck with Amazon France instead of waiting and being disappointed. I got my items but I would wholly support a cash shop alternative for people who weren't so lucky as this whole event has been exceptionally frustrating to follow as a customer outside NA/Japan. The codes should never have been region locked in the first place if the majority of countries worldwide were going to have to make weird global arrangements on varying deadlines just to participate at all.
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11-23-2016, 07:47 PMYeol
This is really sad. I'm glad I took advantage of Amazon.fr but sadly many waitied on false promises.
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11-23-2016, 08:07 PMSerilda
If they don't want to do Mog Station so they can keep it as an add-on bonus, an offer through the EU S-E shop (suitable for all excluded players, so not region-limited) would be a good solution.
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11-23-2016, 08:29 PMSpiritMuse
Yeah I didn't participate in any of the other countries' promotions because I was waiting for my own but I guess that was a mistake.
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11-23-2016, 08:44 PMFelisThere was a way some weeks ago for every country in the EU, Amazon.frQuote:
Originally Posted by Leanna
I know that Amazon was the best deal and whatever my country would get (Gamestop, how we kow now), it can't be as good as Amazon. So I ordered at Amazon during that time. -
11-23-2016, 08:49 PMSpiritMuseYeah but other countries were promised their own, causing many people to not participate in this one and wait it out. And now that promise is broken.Quote:
Originally Posted by Felis
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11-23-2016, 11:00 PMLeannaFinally someone who understand what is going on.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpiritMuse
All the community was supposed to be able to participate no matter where they live, and now that is proved to don't be the case, the message SE is sending to the community is -if they don't do anything about it- "The players of X country are less than the players of Y country". That's obviously afwul.
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11-23-2016, 11:31 PMRosaLunaCelestia
SE should put them in mogstation as they did for chinese and coreen things :)
I feel they will do, well i hope it !
For all our friends not got the chance to get items !
!!Pls SE put them in mogstation 4 them !!
* do cute eyes *
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11-24-2016, 01:04 AMArg0nBut that means SE should do it quite for free. Why? Cause you get the codes for free if you buy a game/card/product.Quote:
Originally Posted by RosaLunaCelestia
And this won't happen.
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11-24-2016, 01:09 AMTheodricYep.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpiritMuse
They messed up - and that'll be alright if they make an effort to remedy the situation instead of waiting for the community to quieten down about it. Let's not beat around the bush - if this had happened over in Japan or America there would very likely be a much swifter response. So far they've claimed that feedback will be taken into consideration for future promotions but that is irrelevant since...the same limitations will presumably still be in place by the time the next promotion swings around a lot of people will likely be very wary about participating in something that could screw them over again. -
11-24-2016, 01:42 AMTiaHariberux3They said they plan to/try to make it happened in those countries. I highly doubt promotion items come into cashshop.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpiritMuse
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11-24-2016, 02:07 AMTheodric
There's no real reason for them not to add it to the Mog Station once the promotion is over. At least for European players but ideally everybody. When people urged the company to make region exclusive items available elsewhere in the world they were under the impression that the playing field would be fair. American and Japanese players had a straightforward and accessible promotion. European players did not.
They've already set a precedent anyway - the FFXIII promotion ran more than once in-game and the items associated with it ended up on the Mog Station at a later date. -
11-24-2016, 02:58 AMworldofneilWell it'd be a bit of an insult to players that went out of their way to get whatever was needed for their promotion if they could have just waited and bought it online later with a few clicks (which, for example, for the UK one for example was to hunt down 3 separate magazines in real world stores, over 3 months, then photograph them and send/wait/chase for final code and I know from my own experiences it was a real pain in the neck). I also heard that for some countries the places you had to go were so sparse that people had to drive hundreds of miles to get there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Theodric
Of course it's also not fair that some players will miss out either though...
Aside from that possible issue, they probably have exclusive deals with whoever they packaged the items with to say that those items would only be available in that country via those merchants so they'd be breaking agreements if they sell them other ways.
Ideally they'd just put them on the mogstation for the countries that didn't get a promotion, but then the people who were unable to get it for their country or have since moved wouldn't be happy... :(
Not really the same thing though. The Lightning promotion was run solely by Square Enix. It didn't involve any 3rd parties and there weren't any region exclusives either as events ran at the same times.Quote:
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11-24-2016, 03:09 AMTheodric
It wouldn't be an 'insult' to players who participated in the promotion. Many players who participated in the promotion have spoken out in this very thread about their desire to see more players granted the opportunity to acquire the items. Those who desire them to remain 'exclusive' in light of European players being screwed over are, quite honestly, not the sort of players who should be given the time of day to begin with - let alone given a say in regards to 'fairness' when many European players have been patiently awaiting the chance to participate in a promotion of their own only to be deceived, screwed over and ignored across the course of months.
Where there's a will, there's a way. I do wish to remain hopeful and desire to see the items added to the Mog Station sooner rather than later though. I feel like that's the best compromise at this point - because the alternative is just letting a significant chunk of the player base go without a fair chance to obtain something that players in Japan and America could gain easily. It wouldn't be nearly so bad if the codes could be used across different regions. -
11-24-2016, 06:37 AMFelisAmazon.frQuote:
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I can only see 2 reason why someone would not have take this chance
1. no credit card
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11-24-2016, 09:53 AMLambdafishIt would be an insult to players who did the campaigns but I have a better solution. Put the items on the cash shop, but wait a year (like seasonal items). Have the items go in the cash shop in Dec 2017, so that everyone can get them. This way, players who did the campaign can enjoy the items, and then they are accessible to everyone once they are no longer relevant.Quote:
Originally Posted by Theodric
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11-24-2016, 10:06 AMZanarkanderOr, you know...Quote:
Originally Posted by Felis
3. The Amazon.fr campaign was not announced/advertized at all in my country (Italy). Sure, I might have found out about it in this thread, but honestly I was expecting some official announcement instead of checking this thread every so often.
I don't really care that much about items but this whole thing leaves me with a bitter taste. I would have taken part in the campaign to show my support to the company, now I wouldn't buy it from mogstation for the same reason: SE doesn't care about us, so I won't show any appreciation for the way we've been treated. -
11-24-2016, 12:45 PMNezeriusAs Zanarkander already stated, the amazon.fr promotion wasn't announced anywhere other than on the French lodestone page. Anyone not checking on this thread regularly wouldn't have known about it.Quote:
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My country (The Netherlands) actually had what looked like a start of their promotion with a game magazine called Power Unlimited, since previous month's issue included the codes for the Ifrit mask and the MGP card. People likely thought they could just get two issues for the following months to get all the ingame items, and passed on the amazon.fr one. Turned out that current month's Power Unlimited didn't have any codes at all, and it seemed to have been a one-time only thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Felis
Perhaps the NA or JP players would be, since they actually had a good promotion. I can't imagine all that many EU players being insulted about this, due to how most of the promotions were terribly handled.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lambdafish
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11-24-2016, 01:34 PMTaranTatsuuchiNA account holder here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nezerius
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11-24-2016, 01:56 PMMoomba33^This right here.Quote:
Originally Posted by TaranTatsuuchi
The EU campaigns were handled very poorly and I fully support the items being made available to everyone on the Cash shop. -
11-24-2016, 02:05 PMRosaLunaCelestia
If Amazon.fr was only on our french lodestone its because Amazon.fr was a short promotion for Paris Games Week.
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11-24-2016, 02:10 PMLuna_ArianaWith that Gamestop is also offering to the Codes ONLINE now! The Codes will come within the next tuesday via the Mail.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mind_Eraser
Sadly you need an adress in one of the three Countries to send tho.
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11-24-2016, 08:04 PMFelisThey could sell EU codes on the mogstation, or put them into the europe boxes of FF XVQuote:
Originally Posted by Moomba33
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11-24-2016, 08:54 PMAronysA game which is more than €20 and is not even available on PC... Lol nope.Quote:
Originally Posted by Felis
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11-24-2016, 08:59 PMSynrin*raises hand* please helpQuote:
Originally Posted by Luna_Ariana
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11-24-2016, 11:49 PMKahuna
For the GameStop Campaign
First of all, apologies for the delayed reply, but confirming these things usually takes some time. I can confirm that the campaign has now started in its entirety, and as such, codes will also be available from gamestop.de
To recap:
Codes are available in store in Germany, Switzerland and Austria when making a purchase worth at least 19.99 EUR or 24.90 CHF in a brick and mortar GameStop store.
Codes are available from gamestop.de as well. Those will be sent out the following Tuesday. As such, they won't be instantaneous, but you will definitely get them. If you have already made a purchase and not gotten a code, no worries - if you have made the purchase on or after November 22, you will get your code next Tuesday!
Hopefully that clears it up :)
For the situation in the Netherlands
We are currently looking into this. Please bear with us as we're trying to get a definitive answer. -
11-24-2016, 11:57 PMKingkieThank you so much. :DQuote:
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11-25-2016, 12:29 AMNenelle
I hope the people from the Netherlands are luckier than we people from Spain / Italy.
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11-25-2016, 01:38 AMLuna_ArianaIncase you dont live in DE/AU/CH you simply buy something for 20 bucks in Gamestop. Then you write the Adress of someone you know who lives there. In my case I would give you an adress which where I can get the sent stuff. Upon Request I can also send the Game or Merchandise (does Merch also work?) back to you but then there are a few things to note on this:Quote:
Originally Posted by Synrin
- You have to be willing to give your adress (Wont tell anyone where you live no worries)
- May also need to check how we go with the Shipping taxes depends where you live (paypal would be the best method)
- And lastly most of the Games in Gamestop are in the German Language. Not sure if you are entirely able to change it under the Options but if not try to find a Game which also can go with the English Language.
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11-25-2016, 07:14 AMSynrinCan we discuss this somewhere private? :3Quote:
Originally Posted by Luna_Ariana
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11-25-2016, 07:16 PMCelefWhy ? no promotion in those countries ? :/ (have'nt been on this thread in a while)Quote:
Originally Posted by Nenelle