About the EU campaign for maid outfit and fat chocobo

[mirta000]

All of this could be solved with one solution: Steam.

Make sure that the players don't refund the game and allow a minimum of 20 euro purchase and that the code must be proved by something, to not allow bots or something, and poof: you get your codes. Maybe allow 20 for the bare minimum and 30-40 for all the package. Simple stuff!

It's not the best safe way because you can always make multiple steam accounts....but it's 1000% times more accessible than this atrocity!

did you consider that it's THEM promoting the magazine and in Japan's case 7-eleven?

And once again, to those complaining about this - stop acting entitled.
A) this is a promotion item. PROMOTION. Same as there are special items for gaming events. They're not required to give it to you in any other form.
B) they're not even required to run the promotion in EU at all. There are plenty of continent exclusive items. If they wanted to keep the competition to JP exclusive, they could have done it.

[Voltyblast]

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Even worse, because they chose the worst kind of. Not to just pick a magazine really, but the fact they chose the most unaccessible of all kind. Not everyone wants to do this busy work for a costume (and a mount.

1) That's true, unless you don't care about being mistreated: it doesn't matter if a shop gives me a 80% promotion on an item when they treat me like trash, nobody will ever touch that shop ever again. In this case, EU is being treated like trash since that our promotion will take us 3 months instead of 24 hours like in JP or NA. That and the hard-to-access magazine for most players.
2) No they're not , you are correct, but as I said above: unless you don't like being mistreated, backlash will be present. China outfits are a bit different because they cannot play with the rest of the world, but NA JP and EU play on the same servers as a matter of fact (I play on a NA server but I've seen JP and even a lot of EU players here): equality is key in this case. If you're fine with it, then don't let me stop you but considering, but considering that NA and JP had a fairly accessible way to obtain the items, while we don't (keyword here is accessibility), you cannot expect people to be happy.

That's why I came up with steam: it's more accessible and most EU players have a steam account. Win-win.

As it is, I'm only expecting a very few players to do this convoluted "promotion" to bother with the entire ordeal.

That and people who want to sell codes, that is.

[mirta000]

That's why I came up with steam: it's more accessible and most EU players have a steam account. Win-win.

YEAH! Let's mistreat those console peasants! Who needs them anyway, eh?

As it is, I'm only expecting a very few players to do this convoluted "promotion" to bother with the entire ordeal.

Welcome to PROMOTIONAL ITEMS. You know, stuff that not every Joe and Jane should have?

And I still don't see how buying a gaming magazine is being mistreated. I think that people are simply too entitled these days.

[Voltyblast]

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Except, that every "Joe and Jane" have it: they only had to purchase something for 20 bucks and get their codes within 24 to 48 hours. We have to wait 3 months at best.

It's not about entitlement, it's about fair chances: NA and JP had a fair chance by having access to the uniform IMMEDIATELY, as soon as they get their purchase done.

In our case? We have to buy the right issue (In my case, it would be the one from september), and send a photo (because who cares about privacy) and HOPE that our code is going to be sent. We need to wait such a long time for a promotion that in other countries only took a few days. If that's not mistreatment I don't know, enjoy your promotion?

PS: Steam is just an idea, because most players (MOST, keyword here being MOST) have a steam account. They could also do with PSN if that bothers you so much: all I'm saying is that for a promotion to be SUCCESSFUL it should be ACCESSIBLE.

As it is, it's not and I wouldn't be the least surprised if the "promotion" fails in terms of sales.

Oh and expect a raise on codes selling!

[Miste]

likely NA, and got free codes.

they only had to purchase something for 20 bucks

Some of NA did get screwed just so you know :/

The Canadian part of NA.

They only had the promotion on amazon.com so I ended up paying $15 more in shipping, import tax, and exchange rate to get my items. So I paid $15 extra just because couldn't buy from amazon.ca

So technically to get my items, since Canadian, I spent $35 instead of $20. It was a very small item too.

I had purchased my item to get the codes (and received my codes in e-mail) before they added game time cards since they added them like 15 hours after the promotion started so I couldn't morally cancel.

Even though Canadians kinda got shafted depending on what you ordered; I still think the EU one was a bad idea. A magazine purchase isn't too bad but WHY do they force you to send in a picture? That's messed up and I definitely would not do it. I hope they don't force you to show your face cause that is a pretty big invasion of privacy otherwise. If it just needs to be a picture of the codes it isn't too bad but the 3 month wait is just unfair :/

[Sayori]

YEAH! Let's mistreat those console peasants! Who needs them anyway, eh?



Welcome to PROMOTIONAL ITEMS. You know, stuff that not every Joe and Jane should have?

And I still don't see how buying a gaming magazine is being mistreated. I think that people are simply too entitled these days.

Please tell me how we are not being mistreated?
1. We pay more than other regions.
2. We get magazines while NA and JP got stuff they could actually use. Sure, there may be that one single soul out there still reading them, but it's 2016 for christ's sake!
3. We have to wait 3 months to get our items on top of waiting for it to finally come to EU, or should i say the UK.

Also literally EVERYONE in NA could get the promotional items by ordering various stuff online. A magazine can be sold out.

[Saon]

As an Australian player, the fact that we'd have to wait even longer is ridiculous at this point. If it wouldn't be so expensive I might have sucked it up and bought the magazines if I was actually interested, but frankly, they'd likely be used to replace my bog roll 'cause I don't give a damn about the content. I'd rather not pay $45ish AUD, given that the NA promotion cost a minimum of $20USD for something the buyer actually cared about.

As a side-note though, the fact that you need to send them a photo of yourself with the codes is a stupid idea. There's nothing about who ownership of the photos would belong to after being sent. I personally would not be happy with a company I've never heard of having a photo of me, even if i obscured my face, and using it without my permission. There are easier ways of verifying identity anyway.

If the AU promotion ends up being anything like this, I'd be unlikely to participate, no matter how much I want the Chocobo and maid's attire.