About the EU campaign for maid outfit and fat chocobo

[Lalafallen]

Yeah, well, no thank you. Definitely not gonna take part in this campaign and maybe even let my sub run out, 'cause this is getting absolutely ridiculous.

[StrejdaTom]

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I sincerely hope that you guys learned your lesson, there are quite many other european countries (mine included - Czech players still waiting for their stuff) waiting for the promotional event.
I like you and don't mind giving you second chance, but we deserve same treatment as JP and NA players and I expect you to deliver.

[Arielyanna]

After having a look more into this Game Master magazine and their parent company...

Yeah, no thanks. I have quite a few friends in my FC who live in the EU and they're not happy about this... 'promotion'.

Now before those who support this, attack/flame me... I'm Australian and while we may get a different 'promotion' when SE decides how to do it for us, I just hope they don't go with a company with a bad rep like Future Publishing (Or ClickandBuy... I remember the debacle over the payment method for XI when SE decided to jump in bed with this company...).

Taken from the wiki page:

In 2007 the State of Texas filed a lawsuit against Future plc for violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.[5] The lawsuit alleges that the Future plc owned website GamesRadar "failed to include necessary disclosures and obtain parental consent before collecting personal information from children."[6] The owner of the other websites settled in March 2008,[7] though the final disposition against Future PLC is not public record.[8]

In November 2009, Future reported a fall in profits from £9.5 million to £3.7 million (a loss of 61 percent) in the fiscal year that ended 30 September 2009. Future attributed this to problems with their US market, hit by a fall in the general advertising market.[2]

In March 2010, Future announced that it was exploring the possibility of reviving its GamesMaster brand on television. The video games show had run from 1992 until 1998; the spin-off magazine continues to be published.[9][10]

The company has been in process of shuttering print media properties in favor of digital media, closing many titles and selling off others. In January 2012, Future sold its U.S. music-media brands, including Guitar World and Revolver, to New Bay Media LLC for $3 million.[11] In April 2013, it completed the sale of major components of its UK media-music brands for ₤10.2 million to Team Rock Ltd.[12] In September 2013, Future announced it would cut 55 jobs from its UK operation as part of a restructuring to adapt "more effectively to the company's rapid transition to a primarily digital business model."[13] The company announced in March 2014 that it will close all of its U.S.-based print publications and shift US print support functions such as consumer marketing, production and editorial leadership for Future's international print brands to the UK.[14] Later in 2014, Future sold its sport, craft, and auto titles.[15]

... While companies have a lot of needed things to do, this just sounds very fishy to me. Just like Clickandbuy and good ole' Electronic Arts. We shouldn't have to send a photo in for this 'promotion'. JP gamers didn't (yes, I know they bought the drinks in person at 7/11...), NA gamers didn't either. So why are the UK gamers gated behind all this rigmarole? Also... does this mean that the rest of the world (Australia included) will have to do something similar or worse if we want them? It just doesn't seem like the people who thought this idea up, really had a good hard think about it.



While there has been a response from SE regarding this (earlier post), not much was really said tbh... just paraphrasing what already has been said. All the negativity generated so far, has to show SE that there's something seriously wrong with this 'promotion'. To all you white knighters who support this... Good for you. Keep on believing that everything's fine... because it obviously isn't... the previous comments in this single thread prove that!

[Bourne_Endeavor]

I don't get why everyone keeps repeating this. Yes, I'm sure some people abused the pre-order trick, but I highly doubt the majority of people did. The promotion required gamers to purchase game-related items - I doubt it was difficult for people to find something they actually wanted to buy that qualified.

Oh, I don't doubt that either. That price quote was more because NA players likely were already buying stuff from Amazon, thus the promotion was free for them. It wouldn't be fair to now charge EU players $12 for a mount the rest of us got for nothing, but I appreciate they can't just give them away. So a small price for EU seems like the best solution.

[boulton123]

Throwing my hat in the ring saying I do not approve of the promotion. I appreciate an SE rep speaking up but it does not remedy the fact we have to be items we do not want. Compared to the NA promo where you had a large selection to choose from we have one option, a dying medium that contains information we could easily access online. It's not that we have to pay for the item, it's not that we have to pay more than NA does, it's that we have to pay for something we do not need nor want.

[StrejdaTom]

Oh, I don't doubt that either. That price quote was more because NA players likely were already buying stuff from Amazon, thus the promotion was free for them. It wouldn't be fair to now charge EU players $12 for a mount the rest of us got for nothing, but I appreciate they can't just give them away. So a small price for EU seems like the best solution.

I probably misunderstood you but you say $12 while the 3 magazines we have to buy in order to get the mount are 27E = +-$30.

[Lexia]

Hmm I'm seeing people say they don't want to take picture of themselves to do this? Guess none of them use social media or ever post a picture of them self on the internet either (facebook/twitter/instagram). Not that I'm saying the promotion doesn't sound screwed up the way they doing it.

[Lacus-Clyne]

Dear Square Enix,

We can follow your ways of the promotion to get the Maid dress n others items we want.
We will buy all the magazines from the online magazine as you promoted.

But what if the numbers of printed physical copy of magazine cant meet the demand of whole EU Account holder of players in FFXIV?
lets says they just print 20k per month, EU account got 100k, how about the 80k more players? what if they run of of stock???
have SE consider about this and alias with GamesMaster so the publishing company can supply 100k copy of magazines that same number with the EU accounts?

and ya.... 100k copy of mags per month, how many trees in our world have cut just for a magazine we don't read and affected the future?

Regards,
Yunie

[Forthtide]

I urge everyone to not take part in this promotion.

[Red-X]

this has been the most biggest mistake that SE have done since 1.0, no one read magazines any more, plus it future publishing and been alot of heat on a few day with the driver 3 deparkel on youtube atm