About the EU campaign for maid outfit and fat chocobo

[Cakekizyy]

No NA could not purchase digital items it had to be physical item.

I remember people talking about buying things that didn't require being shipped.

[Greydor]

I remember people talking about buying things that didn't require being shipped.

I think you're right, but it doesn't matter. I ordered a Nintendo points card (physical), but received the email ffxiv code immediately.

[Alistaire]

You have to remember it is PART of the third group as well... people act as if it's the only set of hoops they have to jump through, yet it's not, it's been stated it's not.

Or I'm just talking about them as the 3rd group because the rest of EU has been demoted to being a 4th group that has to wait even longer.

Or it doesn't matter which way I meant it because you're just nitpicking pointless semantics and my point remains the same either way.

[Skivvy]

No NA could not purchase digital items it had to be physical item.

It could be digital. i ordered a direct download copy of a Sims 3 expansion and it worked with no issue.

[Theodric]

I just don't get it. The 'Final Fantasy' name isn't obscure. Multiple companies should have been jumping at the opportunity to do a promotion with Square Enix. With that in mind I'm baffled that we didn't get something more mainstream and accessible.

If it's due to complicated laws then...let us know which, exactly, got in the way. At least then those of us who care about such things can raise the issue with our local politicians.

Personally I just wanted something simple. I wanted to throw money at something, get a code and then receive the items immediately. Instead people are encouraged to panic - what if the magazines don't arrive? What if the codes don't work or aren't available? Some people have already been misled into subscribing to the magazine when they do not need to.

[Snugglebutt]

If it's due to complicated laws then...let us know which, exactly, got in the way. At least then those of us who care about such things can raise the issue with our local politicians.

I am 99% sure it has nothing to do with UK law.

I doubt anyone who claims otherwise can cite a specific law which forced this specific partnership with this magazine.

[Snugglebutt]

Moved my comment below from another thread since it was unrelated to that one but is related to this one.

SE really screwed over UK players with this version of the promotion and I am not sure if it is partly due to NA players abusing the Amazon version of the NA promotion or maybe someone at SE's EU offices (or even from the JP offices if they handled it since it forced the value of the yen up which is bad for the Japanese export orientated economy) and that person who handled it resents the UK's brexit vote from the the EU so is using this promotion to lash out at UK residents that happen to play FF14...purposefully choosing the worst possible deal for UK FF14 players and doing so maybe just out of spite.

I am not saying that it without doubt was a politically motivated decision to screw over the UK FF14 players by whoever made the selection choice but I also do not rule it out because it is a possibility even if is is not the most likely one. I do not believe for one second this was the only partnership option available to them in the UK by any stretch of the imagination but I do believe it is one of the worst options they could of chosen for UK players. We shouldn't have to wait 3 months to get them all when NA and JP players could get theirs within 24 hours plus we should have been given more useful or broad options instead of only a low circulation physical magazine.

Whatever the reason, SE is (whether intentionally or not) giving the UK players of their game a REALLY bad deal on this. Compared to the NA and JP versions of the promotions this one is far more unfair and far less reasonable. A lot of NA players may have screwed over SE by abusing the order cancelling system of Amazon but it is not fair to take it out on UK players for what NA players did. There must have been better options available to SE than this unknown/unwanted physical magazine that has a three month long subscription requirement. I blame the NA players who abused the NA promotion plus the person at SE who made the choice to pick this partnership over what was probably many other options.

[Eldevern]

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Got some kind of doubt. Many people thought Remain would win then I hardly imagine, considering the time for negociations, they purpolsely suddenly plan this as a punishment. Not i'm saying it is impossible but pretty unlikely. Enterprises rarely do politics considering random individuals but politicians themeselves and it is more likely banks and some kinds of funds that do so. Soros is well known to use his ONGs in this own interest, since, using his own words : "Why should I avoid to do something that suits my interests, even if not ethical, if it is legal?". But SE is not especially this kind of entreprises who have such interests or needs.

[Snugglebutt]

Got some kind of doubt. Many people thought Remain would win then I hardly imagine, considering the time for negociations, they purpolsely suddenly plan this as a punishment. Not i'm saying it is impossible but pretty unlikely. Enterprises rarely do politics considering random individuals but politicians themeselves and it is more likely banks and some kinds of funds that do so. Soros is well known to use his ONGs in this own interest, since, using his own words : "Why should I avoid to do something that suits my interests, even if not ethical, if it is legal?". But SE is not especially this kind of entreprises who have such interests or needs.

I agree it is not very likely but I just don't rule it out as a possibility. I also agree SE as a corporation is unlikely to do such but at the same time the selected choice is based on a specific person within the corporation and their motivation for this choice is something I have doubts about based on the reasonable belief that this selected option was by no means the only partnership offer that they had to choose from and it is a truly is a bad deal for UK players of this game to have picked this one. In the end there is nothing I can do to change what has happened but I can complain about it and hope other region options within the EU offer a better deal open also to UK players.

[ErryK]

Or I'm just talking about them as the 3rd group because the rest of EU has been demoted to being a 4th group that has to wait even longer.

Or it doesn't matter which way I meant it because you're just nitpicking pointless semantics and my point remains the same either way.

Well if you want to look at it that way sure, but that's your perspective, and you're apparently preferring to look at it in an extremely negative way. I'm not gonna bother swaying you away from that either, so there's that.