About the EU campaign for maid outfit and fat chocobo

[Serilda]

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

I'd rather not. I don't have a PC, so this would actually be less useful than the magazines to me (even though I 100% agree with everything people have been saying about how little they want random magazines).

I was reading about this, it seems the three month way is only for people who want everything? And really the white chocobo looks identical to the yellow one except in white.

The costumes are with the third issue so nobody in EU is going to have their items until September. Literally the only silver lining right now for me is that I happen to have easy access to stores which carry the magazine, and even that's spoilt by the knowledge that my friends overseas have to choose between waiting for an offer which will probably never come to their country or importing the magazines, which is made unnecessarily difficult by the poor distribution system. When I buy Japanese magazines for codes I can buy digital versions (no shipping costs or delays!) or pick up the physical copies from Amazon Japan. The systems in place for this magazine's distribution are antiquated in comparison.

I don't mind the photo as I'm just going to send them a Pokemon Go image of a monster 'holding' my codes or something. They can't judge me for how I look in the real world

[-Mew-]

So even if I wanted to buy it say digitally I seem to be out of luck. I can't even get it on google play store. And I don't even know if I'd get codes for Digital Only.

So I'd have to buy magazines for 27€ plus shipping to Croatia plus send a selfie to some English Company.

I can understand it being for UK player like that. But what about the rest of the EU? Can't you do something over Steam or something? How the hell am I supposed to get these codes? This is insane.

[LaylaTsarra]

So even if I wanted to buy it say digitally I seem to be out of luck. I can't even get it on google play store. And I don't even know if I'd get codes for Digital Only.

So I'd have to buy magazines for 27€ plus shipping to Croatia plus send a selfie to some English Company.

I can understand it being for UK player like that. But what about the rest of the EU? Can't you do something over Steam or something? How the hell am I supposed to get these codes? This is insane.

Seems there will be a different promotion for these countries.

Note: Separate campaigns offering the same in-game items are currently being planned for those residing in: France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Australia, New Zealand and Nordic territories. Further details on these campaigns will be posted at a later date.

[EvaLouise]

It makes me wonder what they have in store for Australian players if they are pulling this sort of crap for UK players. I don't understand why they just didn't add the item bundle of Mogstation after the JP promo ended. :\

[MuseTraveller]

So even if I wanted to buy it say digitally I seem to be out of luck. I can't even get it on google play store. And I don't even know if I'd get codes for Digital Only.

So I'd have to buy magazines for 27€ plus shipping to Croatia plus send a selfie to some English Company.

I can understand it being for UK player like that. But what about the rest of the EU? Can't you do something over Steam or something? How the hell am I supposed to get these codes? This is insane.

Greetings from Bulgaria. I feel your pain. Just shipping these magazines will double their price.

[DarkPikachu]

lol is this a troll cos im finding this really difficult to understand how a team of monkeys are running this circus of a game we are paying for monthly. GG because I know certain players in the UK who will NOT pay for this magazine, ontop of the subscription. people who will go to the shops, FIND this magazine, and write down the codes, rip out the codes, and innocent people will buy that ridiculous magazine and be ripped off! and then we have to take a picture too... kids play this game... where the hell are the photographs even going????? who is behind the screen looking at these photos? Im not comfortable doing this AT ALL.

[MollyFiretail]

snip.

Because they chose an obscure magazine that no one even buys anymore. Because it's not teh 90s anymore, you shouldn't have to send a photo of yourself to any company to get something.

No one is asking for the items for free.

I would be happy to pay for the items, but we're not being given the same luxuries as NA or Japanese accounts were, they had the option to buy something they'd enjoy, get use out of. We're being told to buy this or you won't get it.

Besides the fact a magazine isn't a relable source, if every UK(not including other EU players) wanted to buy the magazine for teh codes they're shit out of luck because the magazine does not publish enough issues.

And like people have said.

If you're sending a photo of yourself, holding the cards, then how many people are going to get lost in the paperwork. Are we really expecting people to manually sit down, verify every single photo and send out codes?

[-Mew-]

Seems there will be a different promotion for these countries.

Note: Separate campaigns offering the same in-game items are currently being planned for those residing in: France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Australia, New Zealand and Nordic territories. Further details on these campaigns will be posted at a later date.

Note none of these say CROATIA...

Greetings from Bulgaria. I feel your pain. Just shipping these magazines will double their price.

Well I doubt it will double it but it's going to be at least a total of 35€ and thats just unacceptable.

[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.

[TenesCross]

I think this promotion will a give a lot of resentment toward SE especially form EU users.
Not only they got it later, but apparently, (At least for UK player atm) get the worst deal when compared to other region.
(Unless you want the magazine and okay with sending your pic via email to get all of the promotional item. but yeah, compare that to 20$ product of your choice or a soft drink and simply get the code)

tbh, I guess it's too late to change things now.
I just hope that SE realize on how bad they screwed up on the PR side of the campaign and take it into consideration when planing for next one(if there will be one)