About the EU campaign for maid outfit and fat chocobo

I really wanted that butler outfit but... yeah, no.

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Originally Posted by Snugglebutt

I am 99% sure it has nothing to do with UK law.

I doubt anyone who claims otherwise can cite a specific law which forced this specific partnership with this magazine.

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Well, it's possible. Bear in mind that UK players were expected to pay more than everybody else for the Heavensward Collector's Edition and we never got any clarification or a solid explanation as to why, exactly, that was the case. In WoW, too, UK players are screwed over by being forced to pay more than players in other regions...even for purely digital services. The WoW subscription cost, for example, was specifically adjusted to go up in price for UK players - and the reasoning for that was equally flimsy/without explanation.

So, in short, it isn't only Square Enix who treat UK customers poorly. It may not be intentional but it is unlikely to be a coincidence I think.

This partnership with the game magazine, is probably the worst partnership since FFXIV 1.0s Click & Buy subscription payment system, and that is saying a lot how I badly I feel about this EU Campaign.
Disappointed :(

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Originally Posted by Theodric

Well, it's possible. Bear in mind that UK players were expected to pay more than everybody else for the Heavensward Collector's Edition and we never got any clarification or a solid explanation as to why, exactly, that was the case. In WoW, too, UK players are screwed over by being forced to pay more than players in other regions...even for purely digital services. The WoW subscription cost, for example, was specifically adjusted to go up in price for UK players - and the reasoning for that was equally flimsy/without explanation.

So, in short, it isn't only Square Enix who treat UK customers poorly. It may not be intentional but it is unlikely to be a coincidence I think.

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Thought Aus paid most.

Awww reading this makes me sad for our EU brothers and sisters. I'm sorry. :( I would say send in your feedback both to the company (both the magazine and Square Enix EU) and post your displeasure on the forums here. It might not seem like it but feedback does make a difference. Seeing the Amazon promotion extended due to popularity is proof of it. Wish this was more convenient for you guys :(

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Originally Posted by Zojha

Mostly because they were afraid of people again cancelling their orders after getting the code. That alone could have been prevented by physically shipping the code with the product, but that would have restricted eligible goods to items sold by amazon itself.
Plus, one could simply return the good without naming a reason within a week or two, not accounting for guarantees.
That in turn could be prevented by requiring buyers to formally resign from that right, either directly when buying, which would put the buyers at the mercy of amazon, or any time after receiving the goods, in which case the code would have to be given out with a delay.

In any case, I'm sure there are much better ways to handle it.

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Pretty sure the items had to be 'sold and shipped by amazon' to qualify for the promotion in the first place.

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Originally Posted by Ryuusama

I know, I saw 2 tread to disappear :D

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Well, the one I recall was a thread made specifically to discuss the removal of this thread.
And I'm pretty certain that almost all forums have rules against discussing moderator actions.

So that one was pretty justified.

I have a weird comment reading this thread. I am guessing that they must have contacted several companies with the chance for this promotion. I would guess that this magazine publisher offered them the most financial benefit. The forums have a large percentage of players that defend the other financial choices that SE makes. Is this just not another financial choice?

I am becoming kind of numb to the bad choices and how they chose to react to them. I am surprised that people are so shocked that SE lined there pocket(made a bad decision) in some way at the players expense.

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Originally Posted by Stormrider

I have a weird comment reading this thread. I am guessing that they must have contacted several companies with the chance for this promotion. I would guess that this magazine publisher offered them the most financial benefit. The forums have a large percentage of players that defend the other financial choices that SE makes. Is this just not another financial choice?

I am becoming kind of numb to the bad choices and how they chose to react to them. I am surprised that people are so shocked that SE lined there pocket(made a bad decision) in some way at the players expense.

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If SE's primary motivation was truly just about the money they would sell it on mogstation and by proxy cutting out the middle man while charging the same amount. I have my own suspicions about the motivation for choosing this particular partnership option which I mentioned on the other page but it could simply be whoever was in charge of the selection process made a bad choice.

I seriously cannot believe this was the only option available to them or that this option that forces UK players of their game to wait 3 months to receive all the rewards (compared to within 24 hours for JP and NA players) via an irrelevant physical magazine product which is invalidated by the invention of the internet and that may not even have the supply to meet the demand...then again based on how negative people are viewing this arrangement maybe they will have the supply to meet the demand because the demand has been lowered through less participation due to being a really bad deal for the UK players.

I just cannot bring myself to believe that this was the best option open to SE...I really can't. It is certainly not a good option for UK FF14 players but I do not think we can do anything about it other than vote with our wallets and not buy the magazine plus voice our opinion on here to hopefully prevent future occurrences of bad deals like this. I had a feeling something like this might happen when NA players started screwing over SE by abusing Amazon's promotion via cancellations after receiving the codes. I even mentioned this at that time, said NA players who were doing it were not taking into account how would impact other regional promotions. :(

One more to the list... For household that has more than one FFXIV players who want the reward, we will end up having multiple copies of the magazines that nobody reads. What a waste of money... not very eco-friendly.

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Originally Posted by PahecBoey

I need to second all of those complaints in this thread.
I think we've waited long enough for all those items but you guys just decided to make us wait even longer, pay more than NA and JP, fulfill ridiculously stupid tasks (sending a picture of ourselves to get the last item??) and make other countries in the EU (and AUS) wait even LONGER...

This is just not nice. And incredibly unfair. :(

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I will third all of the complaints also have a question what if your Australian but playing on a na server ?