Is this a joke? Amazon dlc promotion? Again??

[Aronys]

Hello! I was just wondering what item you found that promotion on as i was told just to buy a 60 day FFXIV game time card by friends, and i havent got any code and its my first time doing a promotion so dont know if code comes via email or smoke signals. Any help would be great haha a few nice people have said maybe a backlog of people so may be slow? I dont know ^^'

https://www.amazon.com/Final-Fantasy...2Bfantasy&th=1
This was an example I found.

[Beckett]

I definitely understand complaining about the stupid EU magazine campaign, and I could even understand complaining about the JP 7-11 campaign, but I don't understand how anyone could complain about the NA Amazon campaign. Last time we could literally get the codes for free (although it looks like they've covered the loophole about pre-ordering games this time). Even without that, we still only have to spend $20 on stuff we would probably get anyway (or just get a FFXIV game card), and we don't even have to leave the house.

[Istaru]

Did root around on Amazon, gift cards are eligible. Just waiting for promo codes to email. It really is dangerous for me to post after midnight I tend to be a live wire >.< Still! Hateraid must flow! Now to figure out how to squeeze that ffxi payment out. Too bad I can't convert that playstation cash to Crysta then we'd be cooking with gasoline.

Considering your first post, I'm not sure that giving You gasoline is such a good idea...

You may have used it earlier to burn Yoshida. The cash shop and this stuff is determined by someone else and he doesn't have authority over it.

[Nezerius]

In case SE decides to repeat the same promotion for the items, it'll be a good idea to already bookmark the French lodestone page. Near the end of the previous promotion, amazon.fr had a promotion similar to the NA one (spend €20 on video games), and it worked for people living outside France as well. Might need some help from Google translate when ordering something, but it beats having to get some kind of magazine.

[Synrin]

I definitely understand complaining about the stupid EU magazine campaign, and I could even understand complaining about the JP 7-11 campaign, but I don't understand how anyone could complain about the NA Amazon campaign. Last time we could literally get the codes for free (although it looks like they've covered the loophole about pre-ordering games this time). Even without that, we still only have to spend $20 on stuff we would probably get anyway (or just get a FFXIV game card), and we don't even have to leave the house.

I think it's mostly the salt coming from EU where there is no promotion. NA has now gotten 2 pretty ok promotions, EU? 0 (because let's not mention the last year's disaster)

[Niqote]

Not only do you have the best promotion just like you did last time as a NA region (Buy 1 time card), but you don't even bother to read about said promotion before having a tantrum on the forums which does nothing but highlight your ignorance.

Everyone in the EU regions would gladly swap promotions...

[Lokryn]

Heads up all if you order digital items that count it takes 1-3 days for the email. The promo codes wait for a payment to fully clear. Just how the automated system works got an email explaining that

[KokonoeAiyoko]

So you'd rather pay money just for only digital items than pay money to buy a game/controller/game time and get the digital items at the same time?

[NaesakiAshwell]

*rests head on desk* Well I can foresee the EU getting shafted again, I couldn't even buy the magazine last time as it was either sold out in places that could have it / the cornershops and the like didn't know wtf magazine I was on about / it was also sold out online.

It can't be that hard for them to do an Amazon promotion on the EU branches surely? I mean even if they only managed it on the UK Amazon as an example, at least then, people in France, Spain, Germany, Italy etc could still make use of it.

[Glenfiddich]

Because Japanese companies are highly isolationist and don't really care about the rest of the world at all, let alone treating us the same way. If you think I'm full of it, look at what Japanese music companies did to the jpop boom. They completely banned it all from youtube, itunes, steaming. it's nearly impossible to get anything out of Japan. It tanked their sales but they don't care at all, and continue to ban anyone from watching their stuff. Even AVEXpictures, who distribute a lot of anime, have made it so their stuff is only sold in Japan now.

I have said the same thing some times ago and was attacked by some Members.
They want to please their own people. They don't care about the rest of the world

...It is a trivial thing but it makes me want to quit.

It's not trivial. It shows how they feel about the playerbase outside of Japan.
I have never seen such behaviour in another MMORGP.
Imagine WoW would do that. Handing out Items to NA Players weeks or month before the rest of the playerbase can have them.
I will not buy Stormblood because I'm sure that SE will not stop doing this. This behaviour will go on as long as SE is selling their product in EU and NA.