I won't be cancelling my pre-order this time because of this but if this does continue to the next one I'll probably just start buying my FFXIV artbooks from a third-party. I'd almost assuredly get better & cheaper shipping on them then what SE is offering (It's gonna be 80$ CAD total).

While I do mainly play one character, I do have multiple characters and I want to have as many items as I can across them. I'm not happy about the cashshop outfits/minions being character-locked either but this is getting absurd. I'm not going to purchase two 40$ artbooks just for one minion.