Question about promotional minions

I use to collect minions hardcore, and even bought the soundtrack to both 1.0 and 2.0 just for the Wind-up Dalamud and Wind-up Bahamut. The music was the bonus for me, lol. I stopped collecting once I thought I read somewhere that they released a minion for the fan festival, which due to disabilities and lack of money due to disability there was no way that going would of been possible. And now they've released 2 more minions to get you to buy stuff, like The Art of Eorzea and the Delivery Moogle Plush, even though Yoshi once said they were not going to include in-game stuff that's exclusive to merchandise requiring you to buy other stuff outside game to get, which apparently turned out to be a lie. The minions from buying stuff is not my issue though. Basically I'm wanting to return to collecting minions IF it was not true about the fan fest. Did they release a fan fest exclusive minion? Or was it just the moogle suit and stuff? If it is true then I won't bother buying The Art of Eorzea and Delivery Moogle Plush since I can't get all of the minions anyways.

It was just the moogle outfit, there was no minion. There was also a stream of each fanfest that was purchasable for a lot less than a fanfest ticket, that allowed you to experience it without leaving your home and gave you the in-game goodies too.

Only minions I got from fan fest was the ship and delivery moogle they've added cash shop minions, but other than those, nothing exclusive.

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Originally Posted by Sakuraluna

It was just the moogle outfit, there was no minion. There was also a stream of each fanfest that was purchasable for a lot less than a fanfest ticket, that allowed you to experience it without leaving your home and gave you the in-game goodies too.

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The moogle outfit was a fan fest thing, but the delivery moogle was*supposed* to be a fan fest exclusive, which they've since added to the online shop.

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Originally Posted by Sakuraluna

It was just the moogle outfit, there was no minion. There was also a stream of each fanfest that was purchasable for a lot less than a fanfest ticket, that allowed you to experience it without leaving your home and gave you the in-game goodies too.

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Darn, wish I had known about that. :(

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Originally Posted by monochromicorn

Only minions I got from fan fest was the ship and delivery moogle they've added cash shop minions, but other than those, nothing exclusive.

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So basically, you're saying those that attended the fan fest got the minions from The Art of Eorzea and Delivery Moogle Plush earlier than the general public? In that case this is great news then. I can still complete minion collection. I have until December this year to buy The Art of Eorzea and Delivery Moogle Plush. ^_^

The moogle was meant to only be available at fan fest, but it's SE, I should have expected them to sell it outside of the event, regardless of what they said. To end, there are no fan fest exclusive minions anymore, as the art of eorzia was always going to be released to the public, and the moogle can be bought, but it's 6+ months beyond its original ship date for the people who bought it online

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Originally Posted by monochromicorn

The moogle outfit was a fan fest thing, but the delivery moogle was*supposed* to be a fan fest exclusive, which they've since added to the online shop.

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I actually wasn't aware of that, so thanks for clarifying.

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Originally Posted by h0tNstilettos

Darn, wish I had known about that. http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/i...lies/frown.png

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Np, I figure there's no reason they wouldn't do the same thing for the next fanfest, so you shouldn't have to miss out in the future at least not on the fanfest-specific items.

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Originally Posted by monochromicorn

The moogle was meant to only be available at fan fest, but it's SE, I should have expected them to sell it outside of the event, regardless of what they said. To end, there are no fan fest exclusive minions anymore, as the art of eorzia was always going to be released to the public, and the moogle can be bought, but it's 6+ months beyond its original ship date for the people who bought it online

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Sorry, but this is incorrect. The Delivery Moogle was never a Fan Festival exclusive item. It was just the initial shipments were sold there first and future shipments were to be made available later via the Online stores in each region.

Just wanted to jump in and clarify!

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

Sorry, but this is incorrect. The Delivery Moogle was never a Fan Festival exclusive item. It was just the initial shipments were sold there first and future shipments were to be made available later via the Online stores in each region.

Just wanted to jump in and clarify!

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That's good to hear. I hope in the future you guys never decide to release minions or mounts exclusive to events like that, otherwise it wouldn't be fair to those unable to attend due to things outside of their control since mounts and minions are collections, whereas vanity and merchandise I think is okay since those aren't collections. Basically, no in game collection item should require someone to travel to a location, unless you plan on providing a way for everyone to get it at a later time. Because missing a vanity item is simply a case of being bummed out that you couldn't get it, but at least it doesn't ruin a collection, unless of course it was one piece of a set. It's even worse when we're already paying a monthly sub to have access to all in-game stuff. Please relay this to Yoshi and team.

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Originally Posted by h0tNstilettos

That's good to hear. I hope in the future you guys never decide to release minions or mounts exclusive to events like that, otherwise it wouldn't be fair to those unable to attend due to things outside of their control since mounts and minions are collections, whereas vanity and merchandise I think is okay since those aren't collections. Basically, no in game collection item should require someone to travel to a location, unless you plan on providing a way for everyone to get it at a later time. Because missing a vanity item is simply a case of being bummed out that you couldn't get it, but at least it doesn't ruin a collection, unless of course it was one piece of a set. It's even worse when we're already paying a monthly sub to have access to all in-game stuff. Please relay this to Yoshi and team.

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Well said! I hope the team takes this info and runs with it!

To be honest, though, I do not understand the cut off dates they put on the minions you get from the soundtracks. I would also like to collect every minion in the game, but because of that silly "use before" date on the dalamund minion, I now have a soundtrack (which I love) but a code that I cannot redeem because it is after a certain date.

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Originally Posted by SummerSkye

To be honest, though, I do not understand the cut off dates they put on the minions you get from the soundtracks. I would also like to collect every minion in the game, but because of that silly "use before" date on the dalamund minion, I now have a soundtrack (which I love) but a code that I cannot redeem because it is after a certain date.

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I agree I don't understand the expiration date either. Very weird. :/

Yeah I am also into minion collecting and I would really appreciate it they put these minions into cash shop too.

I would like to clarify this does not extend to Australia, Iceland and New Zealand!! sure i can order the plushie and book through other retails that send out of japan but code is Region locked so no use!! I would LOOOOVE it if SE would Help out these 3 countries since I live in one of them!! Please give us love too!!

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Originally Posted by h0tNstilettos

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while i do agree with you in saying everyone should have a chance to get all in-game items. i do also agree with people who think there should be an exclusivity to citron events,

but for the latter i have a badge a bracelet and 2 t-shirts (a fan fest london, and i beat odin) so, to me, those are my exclusives, hell one idea i did like when i was at the fanfest was that someone mentioned we should get the london fan fest t-shirt in game just to say we went to this event in game since the original exclusive set (the moogle set) was later shared with the premium streams :3

when it comes to mounts i say no those are to big
minons thats ok if there shared with the streams

but that fan fest t-shirt idea or vanity head piece i would say should be exclusive to just those going :D

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Originally Posted by SummerSkye

To be honest, though, I do not understand the cut off dates they put on the minions you get from the soundtracks. I would also like to collect every minion in the game, but because of that silly "use before" date on the dalamund minion, I now have a soundtrack (which I love) but a code that I cannot redeem because it is after a certain date.

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For this they gave an incentive to those collector's as well as those who want the soundtrack, they gave you 2 full years to redeem the code.

i am ok with them staying locked now, if they were to go on cash shop i wouldn't want them to be cheep either because the wind up dalamud wind up bahamut and model enterprise (currently the only 3 minions with expression dates) are a bonus saying we supported ffxiv and got these items, to have anyone get them ruins the bonus that was there from those amazing soundtracks and art book


sometimes you need collector items in a game and they give you a long time to get said items, 2 years is a long time, and the wind up dalamud ran out last year at the 31st of dec 2014 when the soundtrack came out early 2013.

somethings should stay exclusive.

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Originally Posted by Arylius

I would like to clarify this does not extend to Australia, Iceland and New Zealand!! sure i can order the plushie and book through other retails that send out of japan but code is Region locked so no use!! I would LOOOOVE it if SE would Help out these 3 countries since I live in one of them!! Please give us love too!!

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Bonus item codes are not region locked. At least those from the soundtracks not, because the japanese version is the only version of the soundtracks.

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Originally Posted by h0tNstilettos

Darn, wish I had known about that. :(

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If you are serious about wanting the moogle outfit, I do have an extra code that I bought from the niconico site. It was $15 from that site (vs. the $20 for the NA stream). If you have paypal, I think we can work out the details.


I had picked up the extra code for a forum member here as they were having some big issues getting the site to accept their credit card info (international sites cause issues ><). They were super frantic as the deadline was coming up, so I picked it up for them, only then to find out they suddenly changed their mind on wanting the outfit. lol. :(



And I really hope this doesn't flag me as RMT or anything. :X I'm just offering the item at cost for what they would have paid had they been able to obtain it themselves....if this is an issue, let me know. Don't ban me! D:

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Originally Posted by Skivvy

If you are serious about wanting the moogle outfit, I do have an extra code that I bought from the niconico site. It was $15 from that site (vs. the $20 for the NA stream). If you have paypal, I think we can work out the details.


I had picked up the extra code for a forum member here as they were having some big issues getting the site to accept their credit card info (international sites cause issues ><). They were super frantic as the deadline was coming up, so I picked it up for them, only then to find out they suddenly changed their mind on wanting the outfit. lol. :(



And I really hope this doesn't flag me as RMT or anything. :X I'm just offering the item at cost for what they would have paid had they been able to obtain it themselves....if this is an issue, let me know. Don't ban me! D:

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that (i beleve) does go against the TOS selling something in game for real world money is looked down by SE :c

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Originally Posted by DracotheDragon

that (i beleve) does go against the TOS selling something in game for real world money is looked down by SE :c

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My thinking here is that since this item was available for purchase by everyone, this would be no different than me buying an item (officially sold by SE) for a friend and then asking them to pay me back. I'm not looking to make a profit on this at all. D:

I like the idea of exclusive items. I mean, I spent well over 2k for everything for the vegas fan fest. While I understand some people are unable to go for extenuating circumstamces, I still think their should be something in-game for going. It doesn't have to be a minion or a mount, but i really did like the idea of a vanity piece, because it isn't easy to coordinate and pay for some of these kinds of things.

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Originally Posted by Skivvy

My thinking here is that since this item was available for purchase by everyone, this would be no different than me buying an item (officially sold by SE) for a friend and then asking them to pay me back. I'm not looking to make a profit on this at all. D:

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oh then that would be gifting... its a real grey area form SE D: but i am guessing it might work if it isn't for profit.. (same way the mob station might work) but i don't know :c