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

[Avatre]

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).

If they gave us more shipping options, then it wouldn't be as bad. But when they only give us the $40 shipping amount...something isn't right. I cancelled my original pre-order of the Shiva Statue because I also wanted the new art book and music disc...for all three of those items, I'm paying the EXACT same shipping as if I was buying just one of those items.

[ExKage]

I didn't see it from the live letter happened but they posted it for the digest.

In-game Bonus Item Codes
Recently, players have noticed that the in-game bonus codes included with FFXIV-related merchandise have been character-specific rather than being account-wide. The reason is because there is a limit to the number of items that can be distributed to service account wide, and it is currently difficult to increase this limit. We’ll continue looking into this moving forward, and will provide an update once we have progress.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

I didn't see it from the live letter happened but they posted it for the digest.

They really just need to take the effort and resources to revamp their backend.

There's too many limitations and 'spaghetti code workarounds' bogging down the game.

[Darrcyphfeid]

Yup, thanks Square. Haven't laughed that hard in ages.

I have no words for how amazingly stupid that is.

[HyoMinPark]

I didn't see it from the live letter happened but they posted it for the digest.

Yet they put an account-wide mount on the Mogstation....3 actually, since people noticed that the minion was single-character only. Hmmm.

Honestly...I call bull on this.

[Istaru]

Yet they put an account-wide mount on the Mogstation....3 actually, since people noticed that the minion was single-character only. Hmmm.

Honestly...I call bull on this.

I cannot agree more. Total bull hockey.

[LyraKuroneko]

They're just getting greedier and greedier.

[Theodric]

I can buy that there's difficulties sending things through the mail to characters. If I create an alt, for instance, my mailbox is flooded immediately with various items.

What I can't buy, though, is the lack of progress towards a proper account bound system. Why not just flag accounts as being either eligible or ineligible for various promotional items and then add a specific NPC in-game where we acquire them if our accounts are flagged accordingly?

They've known about these limitations for a while, after all. You'd think with having to pay an additional sum of money to even have access to alts the game would take steps to be a bit more alt friendly...

[Ametrine]

It really feels more and more like SE is trying to get us off making Alts.

[Claviusnex]

Yet they put an account-wide mount on the Mogstation....3 actually, since people noticed that the minion was single-character only. Hmmm.

Honestly...I call bull on this.

Their regular go to response when they know they've screwed up and plan to ignore the situation is a variation on "The system can't handle it". Sadly most of the time is is bull.