Forced to preorder early because of Wind-up Palom

[linayar]

Well, since this thread just came up...

Separating the two and making one of them completely unobtainable after Endwalker release means that a newbie will never be able to get Wind-up Palom since Square Enix never released any preorder reward on the MogStation.

That's right. It's a reward for existing customers. Tell your friends to start playing now rather than later.

Even I who is playing right now feel forced to preorder just to make sure I can get the Wind-up Palom since I already decided to get the digital collector's edition for the mount.

You've already decided to get a more expensive version of the game package, but you refuse to purchase it even a day earlier?

if you're a minion completionist...

Then you're already screwed because certain minions are not available any more, like the Baby Gremlin minion, the Wind-up Red Mage minion, the Chocobo Chick Courier minion, the Caith Sith Doll minion, and potentially others, like those that came with certain merchandise purchase.

So new players should come in knowing that about the game, and if they have issues about not having both minions in their collection, then don't buy the collector's edition.

Even I, who did preorder the past two expansions, lost those rewards when I started over on a new account last year. The rewards are there to incentivize early purchase before the expansion officially launches, not for potential new players who can read reviews or ask friends/strangers on the internet who are currently playing whether they should also play the game and buy the expansion after it has come out.