Lord Of Verminion (Collecting Minions)

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I feel it is more than fair that the minions be available on the cash shop. Regardless what one person feels is a justified cost for an item or whatever their reason for buying the merchandise may be there is no reason that both customers cant be happy and get what they want. If someone wants the minion but not the merchandise why shouldn't that be an option? Or if someone sees value in the combo of merch+minion why cant they have it that way? Or even just Merchandise without the code. Customers love options. So why not give them that?
All Im asking for is for options like this so everyone gets a fair shot at the digital items. Not to mention the folks who are just buying the merchandise for the code buy up all the product and those that actually wanted the merchandise may not get any because it sold out. (Which has happened to me on more than one occasion at TGS!)

What would be the point of the promo minion if it was not part of a promotion?

You want a skewed shot, one that favors your position. A fair shot would be to have the promo codes redeemable without an expiration date and to make sure that it will always be included with certain merchandise purchases.

This game is not designed to be 100% completed, it's an endless treadmill with content all over the map. Just like I have to live with an incomplete TT collection, so to will people learn to live with an incomplete minion collection.

They have never revisited any of their promo items thus far. SE knows digital promo items move physical units, if they just move all those promo items to the cash shop, they will sell less units of physical goods. I already linked you data that shows the cash shop minions are not commonly owned, they are downright unpopular. Adding any promo minions to the cash shop would not bring in this huge flood of money in. Less than 5% of the player base buy these things to begin with. It's more advantageous for SE to keep these items as their intended purpose, promo perks for buying merch.