Seven Eleven Japan Event - Exclusive items White Fat Chocobo and Maid/Butler Attires.

[Sakuraluna]

Not that I'd buy this I still think in principle they have shot themselves in the foot with a damned if they do damned if they don't situation. They can't break whatever exclusive deal they have with 7/11 Japanese branches and they can't please the consumers they mindlessly left out. I'm just pointing out what a silly idea it was to release a regional event like this with what should be well known to the developers to be an item the entire player base would clamor for.

My concern is that they didn't mindlessly leave us out. They had talks with 7-11, they talked among themselves, they met with lawyers, etc., more than likely they pulled all the numbers and did their research. Something gave them the impression that they could afford to leave us out. That's the thing that really gets to me about this, and even though people keep saying we'll eventually get them, I just don't see how they'd be able to give us the same sort of events with the cultural differences between NA and EU so they'll likely just end up waiting out the contract and then throwing them up on the mogstation... Which would allow the JP to enjoy a timed exclusive while we have to deal with players begging on the forum until a contract ends, which I still find extremely insulting. :/

[Serilda]

Surely the fair solution is to put them up on the US/EU mogstation only (including non-EU folks on EU accounts of course) but only have them available for a few weeks to mirror the exclusivity of the 7-Eleven deal? Then everyone who misses it, no matter where they live, will be equally annoyed but everyone has a chance at the time. Then those who missed out can campaign and the goodies will get a global mogstation release in a couple of years when 7-Eleven has stopped caring.

I swear I'm one of the only people on my server not riding a white fat chocobo at the moment (lol).

Also, I keep almost typing "7-Elezen"

[Sakuraluna]

Snip.

See, I wouldn't have complained if they'd just done this. They could even charge a little extra if they needed to, as we'd essentially be paying for the the benefit of being able to just buy them instead of participating in an elaborate promotion, and then reduce the price to something a little more fair once the contract is up. I might not have bought them, but plenty would and I'd at least feel like I had a fair shot.

[Canvas]

Let's just hope they add it to mogstation once the promo ends and not a year later. >_>

[Lacus-Clyne]

@よしださん, we still waiting for the maid dress to available for all players ^_^


お願いします。

[Medicine]

Apparently Yoshi-P said something about setting up a contract? Which imo doesn't sound like a good thing at all considering if it's another 7-Eleven Collab a massive chunk of the NA/EU player base is gonna be outta luck, I still think bringing it to the Mogstation will make just about everyone happy and it's the easiest and fastest way for this to happen.

[Felis]

Surely the fair solution is to put them up on the US/EU mogstation only (including non-EU folks on EU accounts of course) but only have them available for a few weeks to mirror the exclusivity of the 7-Eleven deal?

Something like EU mogstation or NA mogstation don't even exist. It's just the same mogstation for every SE account.

[Noxifer]

Something like EU mogstation or NA mogstation don't even exist. It's just the same mogstation for every SE account.

That may be true... But there's already some sort of region check, to get them to show prices in YOUR region's pricing ($, £, € or ¥), so even if it might take a bit of coding to add a "region check" to optional items, I think it's very possible. (It also might be faster and cheaper than trying to negotiate some kind of contract with every US state and every EU country, plus non-US and EU countries that have players in them...)
Unless, of course, that's just simple localization, like with the SE store.

If nothing else, they wouldn't need to restrict it once the JP campaign is over. I think the last day to use those 7-11 codes were some time early May, right? It's the first already, so even if they weren't going to implement it right away, they could still inform us soonish that at [future date, say... July, or August, or whatever], those items will be available from the Mogstation. It might be a pain to wait, but at least we'd know, right? We wouldn't have to walk around in some kind of limbo of "when will we be able to get them, how will it be done, or will they just.... forget about it?" anymore ^^;

[Jynx]

If nothing else, they wouldn't need to restrict it once the JP campaign is over.

Depends on what kind of contract they signed with 7-11. For all we know that chain owns the rights to distribute this gear worldwide and not even SE can make it available to players outside their say so.

[Noxifer]

Depends on what kind of contract they signed with 7-11. For all we know that chain owns the rights to distribute this gear worldwide and not even SE can make it available to players outside their say so.

For all we know... SE has already said it will become available to non-JP players eventually (in the same live letter where they announced the JP campaign, IIRC). So in my eyes, that kind of says they didn't hand over those rights to 7-11 Japan.
Yes, we don't know exactly what kind of contract they have with 7-11, but like I said, I doubt it's one giving distribution rights of said items to 7-11 indefinitely.