Wind-up Yotsuyu minion will be for one character only!

[Awha]

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That is the thing from a company perspective it makes sense to make the items single use if they have plans to add the item onto the mog station. Only action we can take as a community is to vote with our wallets, but I do personally feel that those of is that play alts and care about having account bound items are in the minority when it comes to FFXIV. Though if we vote with our wallets maybe we can enact change.

Though I do not see that happening, get the feeling the artbook will still sell fairly well. I can sort of see the mindset behind this change even if I do not agree with it. Just a way to try and maximize profits. In an ideal world I would love for things to stay the same where items tied to physical items are account wide, while upset I am not surprised SE choose to do this.

As I have said if they do choose to keep things this way I do hope they add the items on the mog station so I can buy for my alts without having to buy duplicate physical items.

[AveriaF]

I enjoyed receiving Account-wide bonuses (minions/housing furniture items, etc.) as a bonus for purchasing merchandise directly from the Square Enix store when the merchandise first came out. There was a large incentive for me because I'd get that bonus across all of my characters.

Now, I have less incentive to buy merchandise from SE because the additional bonus is now very limited, and in some cases, could disappear entirely.

If SE's answer to compensate for the sudden one-character-only limitation is to add these bonuses to the MogStation at a later date, then I have no incentive whatsoever to purchase merchandise directly from SE because it means I can just find a cheaper price on merchandise from a competing retailer and disregard the bonus item because its existence will no longer be limited; the bonus will hold less immediate value; this translates into less immediate incentive to buy the accompanying merchandise directly from SE.

[Alleo]

Kind of off topic, but do all 40 characters really need the minion?

Well what if someone wants to start completely new on another character? Or just start a second one on another server? It might be rare to have someone with 40 characters but having at least one or two alts is probably not that strange. Letting them still be account wide would also hurt no single player.

SE shame on you...it really feels like you are just getting more and more greedy. Why do you feel the need to change something like that? Isnt it already enough that collectors who want everything needs to purchase this stuff?


Edit:

I can already see how they suddenly put this in the mog station (for a way too high price) and people would be happy for that and buy it for their alt characters..which would mean that SE would have made even more money out of this. I do want merchandise items to land in the cash shop because it gives people the chance to own them without buying the merchandise..but not if its single character only, because people who have bought the merchandise in the past would have gotten it for all their characters and now they would need to put more money behind it to get the same result..like milking us even further..

[Reinha]

Is SE trying to see if fewer people spending more money will be more profitable than more people spending less money? I don't know. Don't count on this minion later being on the Mog Station though because that has only happened to very few exclusive items. The fact that this being for single character only wasn't clearly mentioned on the product page is pretty shady and worth bringing to people's attention.

In any case, us customers can affect their stats with our buying decisions. If you don't support having to pay for multiple physical items that have no use for you to get digital items, don't pay. If you don't support having to pay for any physical items that have no use for you to get digital items, don't pay. If you don't support single character digital items in the Mog Station or don't support the Mog Station as a whole, don't pay. Maybe those stats will make them reconsider their ways to do business.

[EvinnaReed]

Not happy about this. Especially not happy because the change was made AFTER I ALREADY PUT MONEY DOWN. Like, if they have to change all minions and bonuses to one character only, I am okay with that IF:

1. They will be available on mogstation at a later date
2. They explain what is going on and why this change ABSOLUTELY HAS to be made
3. They make the orchestration rolls and yotsuyu minion account wide as the change happened AFTER money was put down.

However, I am of the opinion that bonuses for ALL physical merchandise that we have to pay shipping for should be account wide as a courtesy.

[zztoluca]

Wait is a second printing of the Odin statue confirmed? I missed getting one and was genuinely sad because I wanted it for itself and not just the emote.

At least on the Japanese SE site it sold out with in a week. Dont know if they will do the same for other regions.

[Camiie]

My compromise that probably no one but me will appreciate. Buy the physical doo-dad and you get an account-wide minion/emote/mount/whatever. You pay that much, you shouldn't have to settle for anything less. Now, later on... maybe a year or so... release a single-character only version on the mog station.

Maybe that last part is a bit self-serving, because I am not buying the physical items no matter what. Even if they were what I consider cheap I wouldn't buy them. Mainly that's because I can do without the clutter in my life. Odd reason perhaps, but hey I never said I wasn't a weirdo. I do like to buy in-game things every now and then, so I would like to see the bonuses available at some point.

[BillyKaplan]

My compromise that probably no one but me will appreciate. Buy the physical doo-dad and you get an account-wide minion/emote/mount/whatever. You pay that much, you shouldn't have to settle for anything less. Now, later on... maybe a year or so... release a single-character only version on the mog station.

That's literally what they've been doing so far with the few promotional items that were tied to other things (FanFest for instance) that ended up in the Mog Station. SE already did that in the past. Now they're just mucking it up by removing the account-wide from the original version :\

[KrimKreyole]

I'm truly not a big fan of this change. If the technical limitation is such an issue then why did they just release TWO mounts that are also account-wide? I can understand the calls to the server when a person makes a new account might be pretty intense (I get a good 60ish mogmails on a new character) but surely people with large amounts of items aren't making new characters so often that it's a massive issue?

A game this size should be able to handle it.

Either way, I think it's shady as all heck that they changed this after people had already put down money on the items and personally it will be stopping me from buying the symphony bluray ... as I already own the CD and would only want the orchestrion rolls , and I can't share estates with my alts so I can't simply put the music in their homes that way.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

My thoughts on the matter...

I've never liked that many of the Mogstation items are character specific...



But...
An item that you have to buy physical merchandise to get, and now those are now only going to apply to a single character?!

I just...
I can't come up with anything to say that I wouldn't regret saying later...