Quote Originally Posted by Reinha View Post
If you buy a product at its normal price and get digital items as a bonus, those digital items are a freebie. I paid 20 € for a Steam currency card (20 € value) to get the maid outfit, then I got to spend those 20 € again on Steam. That means I didn't spend any money on the actual maid outfit. That's different than spending money on Mog Station where you get no other goods, would you not agree? I would even be happy with buying Dr. Pepper or ordering something from Amazon but there is no promotion in my country yet.

I was, and still am, annoyed by the suggestion to stop further promotions, when we already know the items are coming to Mog Station in the end. SE has promised it in a previous thread. You're already going to get what you want so there's no reason other than impatience to deny other people a chance to take part in these promotions.
Maybe I'm a little bit slow. To me it sounds like as if you wouldn't have paid money to get any of these Items, you wouldn't have had a chance to get these Items.
So in my opinion they are far from " for free". To me the Items would be for free if we could get them Ingame from an Event for example.
Anyway. I do not deny other people to have the chance to take part in the promotion.
I just don't get it why you would like to get them from the Promo. I can understand why people wanted the Lightning Event to get the Lightning stuff. Because they (and myself) could have had the chance to meet Lightning in FFXIV.
But a Promo where you have to buy junk to get cool Items....
Like I said, I don't get it.