Old Minons

[Dustytome]

That isn't how it works, the minion is tied to the merchandise, and shouldn't be available through alternate means.

I would like to see these pieces of merchandise be made available again though, with the same minions tied to these items (perhaps an eorzea collection that contains the old minions in a new merchandise package).

It's not how it currently works, it could be if they wanted it to however. If all someone wants is the digital item, why force the purchase of something that could just end up being landfill waste? I bought the encyclopedia eorzea and it came with a minion. If after that promotion expired, they offered the minion separately I couldn't care less. I'd feel pretty petty if I got upset because they made a digital in-game item available via alternatives means for those that wanted it.

[Vidu]

It's not how it currently works, it could be if they wanted it to however. If all someone wants is the digital item, why force the purchase of something that could just end up being landfill waste? I bought the encyclopedia eorzea and it came with a minion. If after that promotion expired, they offered the minion separately I couldn't care less. I'd feel pretty petty if I got upset because they made a digital in-game item available via alternatives means for those that wanted it.

As weird as it sounds: there are enough people out there that are buying the merchandise because of the attached minions. If SE would make it a habit to add those minions to the MogStation later, they would lose out on those sales.
And even if I agree with you that it would be kinda pathetic to get upset about that later those minions are currently markted as "exclusive" and SE is actually making money with that. If they were to sell the minions seperatly later, they need to make that clear before or everyone whos buying the merchandise might be rightfully pissed about false advertistment...

And honestly: I'm not sure if I would have bought the soundtracks if it werent for the minions (even though I gave those to a friend who really cares about them) - while I like having real CDs I ofc copied them to my harddrive and am now listening to the music that way... or well, I would be if I werent using YouTube for that anyways. Without the minion I would have hestitate more to actually buy the soundtracks.