About the EU campaign for maid outfit and fat chocobo

[Aethergoggles]

I held off preordering FFXV waiting on us getting the deal, buying something I wanted and putting more money in SE's pocket at the same time, but instead we have to buy overpriced glossy toilet paper?

[KingXRay]

as always suck all the EU and other region $...
our subscription already way more expensive than NA and JP. Why keep doing this YOSHIDA!?

[mirta000]

Because they chose an obscure magazine that no one even buys anymore.
We're being told to buy this or you won't get it.

Welcome to promotions. They're different to regular store items and are supposed to be special and given if you fulfill special requirements.

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.

With Japanese it was a large amount of very specific water. How will you get any enjoyment out of that? With NA people cheated, so expect to never see a promotion like that ever again.

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.

It's not any different than bottles of water. The store next to you can *gasp* run out of bottles of water too!

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?

YES. The same way that the stores have support teams that sit down and manually verify your identity cards. Have you never bought anything of smaller internet retailers?

[LaylaTsarra]

Note none of these say CROATIA...

I understand that but if you look at the list of countries in this promotion it includes countries that appear to have another promotion in the planning/works. Perhaps those will allow for a lot of countries to participate as well. I have no idea how long it'll be before they announce those but it might be worth waiting to see if your country can participate in them.

I would imagine that SE understands at this point that many people aren't very happy with this and hopefully they'll do something about it.

[Kururu-Chan]

Actually. Water was just the cheapest way. You could choose a lot of different stuff in JP.

[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.

[Eldelphia]

I'm absolutely FURIOUS at this! I don't mind buying something but why not just put the items on Mogstation.

I have to wait 3 freaking months to get the items I want AND then I have to jump through some freaking ridiculous HOOP of sending a selfie to a magazine...

What the hell were you thinking?! Let along players anywhere else in the EU who also have to wait for their freaking stuff to get lost in the mail!

Really, REALLY bad idea SE.

[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!

[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.

[andyhunt]

To those people saying "it's a promotion!". Yes, it is. But compared to the other ones, this one is REALLY bad for the players. Buying something to drink is useful, buying stuff what you want on Amazon is useful as well.
But buying a magazine you don't even want because it's 2016? Just feels like the other promotions were much better for the players.