About the EU campaign for maid outfit and fat chocobo

[DarkPikachu]

Ideally would be good for a rep to step in and at least let us become aware that the public outcry on this promotion is being heard by someone.... anyone of higher authority. Surely this cant be the last result to get these items... come on S.E we are good people we pay our sub WE are the reason YOU are in your successful position right now... dont forget the fans Yoshi...

[Evilkitten]

I saw the bit about the photo, someone actually volunteered for me for the 'selfie' as i've never been comfortable sending photos of myself to people I've never met before... I'm finding this who thing very disappointing. Is that really all they could come up with as a promotion?

[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 :/

[Leyawiin]

Thankyou again Square Enix for making it clear we are not valued as a player base over here in the EU.

Not only do we have the injustice of being made to wait so much longer than many of the other regions, we have to participate in this drawn-out BS.
Not only do we have to pay £15 for the privilege of buying the Maid issue of this crappy magazine, we then have to buy the previous 2 issues and send photo's of ourselves with the codes (?!?!) to get a Chcocobo mount.
Not only do we have to pay almost twice as much cost as America did with their Amazon campaign, we don't even get the bonus of being able to buy ourselves a nice treat in order to be eligible for the codes.

We just get 3 magazines that are probably just about good enough for me to line my cats litter tray with.

Had this campaign been announced 2 months prior, we could have paid the £15. Instead we are now expected to pay closer to £25, a similar price to the HW Expansion...

Nah. I'm good.

[Vego]

That is really off-limits and very disappointing. Comparing the events in NA as well as Japan it is a big joke and absolutely digusting to force your client/player to take a selfie with these magazins. I was looking forward to the maid costume for so long now and recently i start to dislike people with these promo items. It feels like a punch in your face, thanks to SE. Do it another way or make it possible to buy in the cash shop. I bet a lot would buy it even it's 30 € or $, whichever currency. I am so dissappointed.

[Mug]

Nice! I was actually looking for that picture myself. Never forget the fans indeed.

I sometimes feel they completely forgot about that list (regarding many aspects of the game). Maybe it's time to bring it back and go through what each of those points actually mean, but I digress...

[Serilda]

So could I, as someone that lives in the US, have gotten the codes from the Amazon promotion and given it to someone in EU? Would that have been possible?

Nope, that's the really dumb part. The codes are region locked and only work on matching accounts (NA, JP or 'most of everywhere else' i.e. EU). Otherwise the impatient ones among us wouldn't have been waiting all this time

[Kosmos992k]

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I work in one of the biggest supermarkets in the UK. I'm in store now, I'm checking our magazine aisle and our kiosk. We do not stock this item. I'm in tears of laughter.

I agree with the anger and annoyance over this campaign, I'm originally from the UK, so you guys have my sympathy. Quite apart from anything else, in this day and age, paper magazines are literally a dead medium, so why choose that instead of a retailer tie-in with a EU based retailer that operates across EU such as...say... Amazon.
Perhaps someone in the EU marketing team at SE knows folks at GamesMaster's publisher...? Stranger things have happened.

P.S. GamesMaster magazine has a circulation of less than 18,000 according to Wiki, though that is dated 2013, and I would imagine that the number has shrunk further still since then. SE, why the hell did you choose such a poor and non-inclusive marketing tie-in for this campaign when you went with universally accessible Amazon.com for the US?

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

Actually, it's a really poor campaign for the UK as well given the truly crap circulation of GamesMaster magazine. I'm fairly sure that the magazine would sell out before all in the UK wanting to take advantage of the offer were able to.

[Alberel]

Just wanted to add that this isn't the first time we in the EU have been treated rather unfairly in this regard. Might I remind everyone that the Heavensward Collector's Edition cost about 40% more in Europe even after all applicable taxes were taken into account for the NA version.

We never got a response to the rather epic thread over that farce. I somehow doubt we'll hear anything about this one either unfortunately...

[Elleia]

I know this doesn't help make this situation any better, but regarding the 'selfie' portion of the promotion, I would think it would be possible to send in a picture of the three magazines alongside a piece of paper that has the email you will be using written on it. This will still confirm identity and purchase proof without needing to send them a picture of yourself, for those who are camera shy or skeptical about sending in a picture of your face. Overall that's all the photo is for - confirming you've purchased all three magazine issues. I don't think they'll be too picky about what the picture actually includes, as long as they can confirm identity....worth a try.