How many considering to even do the latest mount sweepstake?

It basically requires you to Retweet the Announcement post for their 10th year, and post your Character name and Homeworld in a comment.

But hey, if you want to deal with that..,
You might not get the Original Fat Chocobo Mount that is the main thing you would do that for.

<unless you make a new Twitter account to avoid ties>

I am not doing it. I like privacy and don’t want to associate my character information with any twitter account.

I'm not a Twitter user so it certainly won't be me.

Shame SE can't include all players in all their giveaways instead of forcing players to use Twitter. But then it's really about the marketing/publicity and not about doing something nice for the player base.

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No - I don't really use Twitter much at all and don't really want to provide SE with a link between my in-game account and my other social media accounts.

The skeptic in me doesn't feel if I made a new Twitter with no followers that I'd be selected anyway lol.

Kind of the same thought, easy sell for those who have their characters already exposed, cause they make/commision art, or are "Content Creators" themselves.

I'd consider it, if the name I wanted was cleansed by them at this point.

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Kind of the same thought, easy sell for those who have their characters already exposed, cause they make/commision art, or are "Content Creators" themselves.

I'd consider it, if the name I wanted was cleansed by them at this point.

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What do you even mean 'exposed'? I don't know if you're trying to say you hide that you play XIV or what? I can't think of an actual reason to not just enter...

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I'm not a Twitter user so it certainly won't be me.

Shame SE can't include all players in all their giveaways instead of forcing players to use Twitter. But then it's really about the marketing/publicity and not about doing something nice for the player base.

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Would you rather have how it's been in the past? Buy something worth 20$ off of Amazon, magazine subscriptions, an app that not everyone can use cause they might not live in an area where that's applicable, or by giving money to a randomly selected twitch streamers channel?

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Would you rather have how it's been in the past? Buy something worth 20$ off of Amazon, magazine subscriptions, an app that not everyone can use cause they might not live in an area where that's applicable, or by giving money to a randomly selected twitch streamers channel?

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Well, to be fair, while it could be worse - it could still be better too. I'd prefer an in-game survey or something as another option to enter - like we can give feedback rating new content or send in a sentence about what we like.

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What do you even mean 'exposed'? I don't know if you're trying to say you hide that you play XIV or what? I can't think of an actual reason to not just enter...

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Exposed as in, letting others you don't want to see your interrelated accounts.
[Basically a preference thing, rather than anything as banal as shame for playing a game one enjoys.., I've talked about FFXIV with siblings and their grown offspring. it's more of the case not wanting the chance of potential strangers reaching. if I was to have a public account, it would be set up that way.]

TBH I almost pulled Critically acclaimed FFXIV on a siblings partner. but the conversation changed midway.., lol

edit: besides if I was going to set up a community or recruit, it would be a more person to person deal. Though I would have a typical Discord and maybe a public front.
But that's just extra info.

and yeah, the sweepstakes or incentivizing advertisements could be run better.
The large reason why we don't even have to spend money this time is cause its SE advertising their milestone.
Not a paid collaboration/advert with a company/service.

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Well, to be fair, while it could be worse - it could still be better too. I'd prefer an in-game survey or something as another option to enter - like we can give feedback rating new content or send in a sentence about what we like.

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Sure, it could be better. Though I'm not sure a survey would be better since they seem to have fumbled those in the past where not everyone with a subscription was sent one. Or knew that they had even sent one. At least this way all you need to do is have a Twitter account and to be at least 18yrs old or have parental/guardian consent. It's not even excluding any of the regions so OCE and other areas that have been excluded in the past are able to have a chance.

Already have the mount but it's nice of them to bring it back. Twitter is a better promotion than the ones where you had to buy products.

Twitter? Hell no. Deleted my account when Musk took over and started treating it like his personal playground.

isnt this the same promotional chocobo as the amazon promotion a few years ago?

Absolutely asinine. I'm not compromising my account security for a chance to win a mount that I might use over the gorilla.

If you're using your real twitter account, you're potentially putting your real name, email, online handle and profile picture (if you have say, anime man X on Steam and Twitter), region and maybe even country (from the server and your name), character info, knowledge that you do in fact have an account worth trying to hack into with all the aforementioned, and who knows what else out there all in a neat package.

No fan of Twitter, so that counts me out too.

My characters name is already on my twitter, so it's no risk to me
worth mentioning you guys can create a new twitter account just for this btw, if you're worried about stalkers that follow your twitter

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isnt this the same promotional chocobo as the amazon promotion a few years ago?

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Yes along with the cloud.

I don't like the mount enough to be bothered.

Can't wait for the "Didn't receive my [reward name]! Help!" thread. A true staple of any giveaway.

I got me Fatter Cat mount. Also a flying bed and chair. I don't need any other mounts.



https://i.ibb.co/2qqqDfb/profile-1.png

Should show how little I do to collect minions and mounts.

Never noticed they were doing a different reward each month. I'll definitely be joining to try and get the cloud mount and the chocolate mount!

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If you're using your real twitter account,

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Why would someone be using their real account? I was able to make a fake name to play this game and surely enough, I was also able to make a fake name to sign up on Twitter.

I often share pictures of my character on Twitter, here, Reddit etc, so I am fine doing this personally. I like the mount! I can see why others do not want to do it, especially since Musk took over. It was hell before, but now even Lucifer is shacking their head at the Nazi crap on there.

Maybe I just need more sleep, but I keep reading "Musk" as "Mollusk" and wondering what the hell I did to piss so many people off this time.

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I got me Fatter Cat mount. Also a flying bed and chair. I don't need any other mounts.



https://i.ibb.co/2qqqDfb/profile-1.png

Should show how little I do to collect minions and mounts.

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Damn Renalt, looking good.

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Originally Posted by SannaR

Would you rather have how it's been in the past? Buy something worth 20$ off of Amazon, magazine subscriptions, an app that not everyone can use cause they might not live in an area where that's applicable, or by giving money to a randomly selected twitch streamers channel?

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Or they could hold the giveaway through the Lodestone/forums. That's also something they've done in the past.

Some of those other promotions were sponsored partnerships where the other company was generally taking on responsibility for handling the majority of the giveaway and SE was simply providing the prizes. I've never gotten the impression that Twitter is sponsoring their Twitter giveaways. It's pure social media marketing.

I don't do sweepstakes since they moved away from most contests, and I no longer have a Twitter account for a number of reasons and don't want to make one just for this and then delete it after. I don't know why they moved all stuff to Twitter. Just keep it on the forums.

Entering these promotions and sweepstakes through Twitter for me has really never bothered me as most of the information required they already have on file and in their system, which of course they need in order to know who to send the prize too the right account/character. I personally already have all 4 mounts, to those who do enter Good Luck to you and may the odds be ever in your favor.

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Damn Renalt, looking good.

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Thanks! I figured I'd try out this new thing called "Wearing a shirt".

It's OK.

Already have all of the shown mounts. I do have a Twitter handle, but I would rather not use it. They need to choose better ways to interact with the community, especially with how bad Twitter has gotten and how little they interact with their actual forums.

I hope this won't be the only chance to get the chocorpokkur mount finally in europe, especially when there will only be 2800 of them.

At least Twitter is available in all regions. And at the same time.

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Already deleted my Twitter account a while ago, and there's no way I'm going back.

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At least Twitter is available in all regions. And at the same time.

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I do agree with this sentiment, although I still stand by my dislike of Twitter. Square-Enix needs to continue to do campaigns that aren't region specific.

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Or they could hold the giveaway through the Lodestone/forums. That's also something they've done in the past.

Some of those other promotions were sponsored partnerships where the other company was generally taking on responsibility for handling the majority of the giveaway and SE was simply providing the prizes. I've never gotten the impression that Twitter is sponsoring their Twitter giveaways. It's pure social media marketing.

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I don't remember when they used the forums/lodestone for something like this. Still compared to the various times OCE and EU have been screwed over by not being able to participate along with other countries or those who live in rural areas this one is probably the best way. That and by the looks of it this is just the first round at a chance for one of the past collaboration mounts. With pretty clear instructions on what one needs to do.

Nope, means I have to create a Twitter account and I just ditched all social media platforms a while ago. It has been bliss.

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Nope, means I have to create a Twitter account and I just ditched all social media platforms a while ago. It has been bliss.

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But you're still here on the forums?

another stupid idea, pass!

I don't use twitter but if I did, I wouldn't post my character's name openly on other social media.

Takes 5 minutes, why not?