About the EU campaign for maid outfit and fat chocobo

[Tyrn]

Saw this post on Reddit about the company that owns them, they seem pretty scummy.

[Serilda]

They could have done it via Steam or something else.

Not Steam, unless it also ran on PSN at the same time. Mog Station fine.

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The other problem with telling people in countries outside the named ones to wait and see is that if they do, and the other countries' offers are worse than the UK's, they'll miss the first issue of Gamesmaster and lose access to the mount and first batch of rewards. This staggered rollout and region locking of the US/JP/EU codes has been the worst part of the campaign to date and now the EU codes are finally here they're still withholding the information some people need to make a decision. It's annoying.

Please also remember that a lot of Europeans playing this game don't speak every single language in Europe. Participating in, say, the French campaign might be harder for them than the UK or Australian campaigns (or vice versa).

[DarkPikachu]

Some people dont even speak or read english! this is an eu campaign set in the UK but not everyone can understand the language... so we are forced to buy a magazine we cannot even read if we even wanted too LOL come on thats just spiteful

[LaylaTsarra]

They could have done this promotion via the Mogstore. Spend 10€ in the Mogstore and get this and that for free. They could have done it via Steam or something else.

Instead they went this full retard route...

Oh I don't disagree. I don't blame people for being upset. I'm just pointing out there may be alternatives to getting these when they announce the other promo's.

[ZanaWintersong]

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



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.



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



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?

Why do you keep posting lies? You also posted on reddit how the codes in JP/NA were "random"
It wasn\'t a specific type of water. It was multiple soft drinks. 7/11 also do events like this fairly often in Japan, whereas magazines in 2016 are now pretty rare.

[Eldevern]

To compare with JP promotion, any soft drink that sold out don't lead producers to be afraid to produce more, especially for drinks you can keep in store for a few month, but a magazine, they always plan short productions and are very carefull to reprint in case of sold out. That's a great difference.

If it was at least possible with digital versions it would have been fine (not really, but better anyway) but it is printed versions only.

[Eldelphia]

Why on earth anyone in the marketing department thought that people would be happy getting their codes over 3 months... let alone the final hoop of sending a photo I don't know. I get that you're trying to verify the purchase but this was a stupid idea, I don't want to send a personal photo of myself to any organisation...

This is 2016, how many people buy physical magazines these days? Why over 3 months when NA and JP regions didn't have that restriction?

I suggest everyone impacted contact SE in as many ways as possible. This is horribly unfair.

[andyhunt]

Do you not understand what a promotion is?

Oh stop it already!
We do know what promotions are. This thread is about the fact, that we get a really bad one, compared to all the others!

[Elisewin]

It's amazing how they always find something for getting their players upset.

[Lukile]

I think that most people in this thread, indeed, don't know what a promotion is.

Japan: 7-Eleven - Widely known company, heavily accessible, as 7-Eleven is everywhere in Japan. Great promotional reach. Product required to obtain the promo codes is reasonable - water is a popular product in Japan.
North America - Amazon. Widely known company, heavily accessible as most North Americans have an Internet connection. Great promotional reach. Amazon offers loads of items to buy and you had to spend 20$ to get the codes.
Europe - GamesMaster Magazine - Completely unknown game magazine in most of Europe. Severely restricted access. Time gated by 3 months and has an extra step requiring you to take a picture of the codes to get the mount. Awful promotional reach. Most of Europe has never even heard of this magazine. And the campaign isn't even covering Europe as a whole.

I'm starting to wonder if you're the one not understanding what a promotion is...