About the EU campaign for maid outfit and fat chocobo

[Theodric]

I'm hoping they'll discuss the issue during the next Live Letter. Assuming they don't forget to address their 'American' audience as their Western audience this time around.

[Alleo]

I lol'ed a little that the EU campaign would be with a UK company kinda ironic

Damn SE why do you have to disappoint me that much. I want to love you and FF14 really bad but you make it harder and harder to do so..I was even a little teary eyed after reading about this campaign because I hoped that we get something similar like the NA.

I bought a lot of merchandise for this game on your site and even purchased quite some items on the mog station only to have "that" as a EU campaign...

As someone that studies business administration I just shake my head at what exactly made you choose something like that?? The amazon deal made sense..people would get those codes with their games even if the did not play FF14 and maybe some would be curious and check this out, kinda a win win situation for everyone, be it players, SE or amazon.

Now this magazine seems to be not really popular in the UK and maybe even have a bad reputation. Since some said that online games is not even their target audience I am not really sure what the positive outcome is for SE? I mean you make your EU playerbase angry, barely anyone who does not already play FF14 will see this so nothing good for you, so the only one that gets something out of it is the UK company?? Who gave the okay for such a promotion? Especially since this is such a outdated marketing idea.. And since it sells quite a low number of those magazines you will make a lot of the UK players even more pissed if they miss the most important of those magazines (with the outfits) after waiting months.

So people have to pay more than in the other campaigns, need to wait months to even get those items everyone wants the most and having to fear that the magazine will sell out. Send a picture of yourself (even if its just the body..) with your private mail to this shady company to even get the mount, hoping that nothing goes wrong while doing so and you thought that we would like that?? Really??

And if I want it through that campaign as someone from germany I even have to pay a lot of shipping costs and hope that it will even reach me for something that I will throw away immediately? Yeah I could wait and see how the german campaign will go, but I have little hope that it will be better and who knows when we will get that one (maybe somewhere in winter ) and if its not something good too I would have no chance to participate in the UK one...

Well *slow clap* well done SE well done..I will so pass this one even after wanting the maid dress really bad but I will not support such a horrible decision..some small part still hopes for a good german campaign or even that you just make another deal with amazon but I fear that it will be something bad too..like another magazine..

And wow...after so much negative feedback you only post one comment that is nothing more than recapping what is already written in the lodestone post?? You do know that marketing says "customer is the king" and that keeping your customers happy is really important nowadays and yet I feel like we are threated like some kind of dirt under your shoes...

Well I was still not sure if I should buy the EU fanfest ticket since it probably will be really expensive but you have taken the decision from me . The most you will get from me is the money for the stream version and I will think twice to buy any merchandise or mog station item again great job SE.

[Skivvy]

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.

Oh, sorry! I misunderstood the intent D: It is totally bogus that NA/JP could buy things of their choosing and get the item where as EU is forced into 3 magazine purchases that they probably don't want (over the span of 3 months), and then make them submit further proof after the fact... I really don't know how they could think this was a reasonable offer.

[Saphinara]

I hope we at least get an apology for this farce, if anything the lack of clarity has hurt more than the promotion has.

[Ziegsy]

Okay as the other half just pointed out.

You can get the third issue through subscription still, not the first two.

The third is the one people want most- the one that will be in the most demand.

People will sub just to insure they get that third copy, as availability will be questionable, and buy the others if and when they want them.

Gamemaster makes more money off people.

...Sounds.. a bit like a scam.

[SlyRoyale]

SE really screwed the pooch on this one. It just shows how out of touch they are with their European audience, and having a community rep parrot what we already know only serves to rub salt into the wound. I doubt that SE will go back on this promotion as they've already invested in it or something, but they should at least apologize for this debacle and provide future promotions that do not screw over their European player base. The North American and Japanese players were able to get their codes with little to no hassle, so why pull teeth when it comes to the European players?

Sorry, SE, but you screwed up.

[oORoyalBlueOo]

Hi

for me this really Strange why we have to pay more than 30 Dollar and wait for 3 month while other get it in less than 1 week with less money
at least more time less money Or more money less time D:
let us at least pay for Digital Ver after we downlod it we get the code
it's way less than the bother to fight to get it the magazin to my house i live out of Europ
Just why make it really hard to get

[Lacus-Clyne]

"***Please Note - FFXIV giveaway offer: It is too late to subscribe and receive issues 306 and 307. Subscribe below before 02/08/2016 to receive issue 308. Issues 306, 307 & 308 will be available to buy individually here when they go on sale. Issue 306 on sale date is 14.07.2016."

read that, the issue 308 should be the most demand and they told it is too late to sub 306, 307 and only can sub 308..
sub got a good benefits, one of them is :
"You'll never miss an issue"

so means that they got limited issue... and we will be forces to subscribe to receive issue 308 for another 3 months..
well well..

[DamianFatale]

I told everyone it would cause problems if people didn't get the codes fairly, and some even resorted to make fun of me. Well now everyone is complaining about this. The irony is that these protective measures could of been prevented.

[Enkrateia]

Greetings, all!

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LGM Enkrateia