Black Chocobo Twitch Campaign: Alternative Acquisition

While I understand this is supposed to be a way to "support your favorite FFXIV streamer," but this is an oddly exclusive acquisition method. I know I (And a few others), do not watch and/or use Twitch. If anything I may catch a few highlights on YouTube after the fact; however, in my day to day life I'm unable to make time for a live stream. Alternatively, I feel like SE and/or Twitch is banking on the fact that you won't remember to cancel one of the four subscriptions that you need in order to obtain the Black Chocobo mount. I would be more than willing to just pay the $20 dollars on the Mogstation outright, instead of backing a service I can't/won't use.

I would appreciate if you took this under consideration, and henceforth put a primary and secondary method in which to obtain exclusive items that involved subscriptions.

I'm not a fan of twitch myself, but I do like mount collecting so I decided to participate.

You don't need to subscribe to anyone, you just have to gift 4 subs to others. I went to one of the valid streamers and used the "gift to the community" option to gift 4 1 month subs to random viewers on the stream. It's not a recurring payment.

Thank you for clarifying about the not recurring thing; from their own images about the campaign the only option they show is 1 month/recurring. At the same time; it's slightly moot if I never am able to catch any of them streaming.

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Originally Posted by AmiBeau

Thank you for clarifying about the not recurring thing; from their own images about the campaign the only option they show is 1 month/recurring. At the same time; it's slightly moot if I never am able to catch any of them streaming.

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It's specifically the 1-time fee gift subs that count for the campaign. Subscribing yourself (the recurring payment) does not count. If you did happen to subscribe to someone though, you have the ability to go to Subscriptions > Edit Subscription > Don't Renew Subscription, fill in a bubble for the reason and click "Don't Renew Subscription".

You (as in "you as US players") already had an alternative method to get the mount last year, it was a (US exclusive) amazon promotion. This twitch promotion is actually a thing to get the mount to the rest of the playerbase that are not based in JP or the US.

This IS the alternative acquision. It was originally a US Exclusive Amazon promotion.

You've also just had a US Exclusive Butterfingers mount.

It doesn't take much to make a Twitch account, and $20 is $20 whether it on mogstation or a streamers channel, and some of those streamers absolutely deserve it. If you don't like the idea of giving more money to a big personality like MrHappy, consider one of the smaller participants such as MissRogueFlame, EthysAsher, InochiFantasy or Hupo.

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Originally Posted by Seraphor

This IS the alternative acquision. It was originally a US Exclusive Amazon promotion.

You've also just had a US Exclusive Butterfingers mount.

It doesn't take much to make a Twitch account, and $20 is $20 whether it on mogstation or a streamers channel, and some of those streamers absolutely deserve it. If you don't like the idea of giving more money to a big personality like MrHappy, consider one of the smaller participants such as MissRogueFlame, EthysAsher, InochiFantasy or Hupo.

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I think most people would prefered a mogstation variant over twitch for many reasons, myself included.

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Originally Posted by Sotaris

I think most people would prefered a mogstation variant over twitch for many reasons, myself included.

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And I would have preferred a mogstation variant over Butterfingers which are only sold in the US but then that wouldn't be a promotion would it.

Sure but this is a item that was offered for NA a long time ago, it should been added to mogstation now.

"I would be more than willing to just pay the $20 dollars on the Mogstation outright, instead of backing a service I can't/won't use. "


I mean, in both cases, you're spending the same exact amount of money (or maybe less in this case, depending on the country, since Twitch actually has regional pricing) so, which is the problem?.



Honestly i just wanted the mount, so i just selected one of the names posted in the lodestone (since i don't know, or care, who the hell those people are), checked that the person was online and steaming FFXIV, and paid the 4 subscriptions. Got the code right away, and used it in Mogstation. Simple

I was excited to see the Twitch tie in since I've been boycotting Amazon for several years.... only now to be frustrated since Amazon owns Twitch to know that I can't get it this way either. Would be nice if Square picked another partner to work with than them. Guess I'll just wait another two years till it goes onto MogStation directly.

Its mind boggling to me that people pay that amount of money for a reskin of a mount :p

I'm pretty sure there are contractual obligations with the promo partners that prevent SE from selling the promo mounts later on the MogStation. Remember that they couldn't/wouldn't add the white cloud mount from the old amazon promo and instead added a badly recolored could instead (it has a not very flattering nickname on my server that I wouldn't want to utter here ...)

I play the games myself why would I waste my time watching others play?

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Originally Posted by kidalutz

I play the games myself why would I waste my time watching others play?

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Tbf you not required to watch anyone to get the code.