Quote Originally Posted by linayar View Post
Well, since this thread just came up...

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

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

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.
You're missing the issue here. If you buy the Collectors Edition for Endwalker after November, you'll forever be stuck with only Palom. If you preorder Endwalker but not buy the Collectors Edition, you'll be stuck with only Porom. Even if you're not an extreme minion completionist having only one of the twins is a deliberate attempt to get you to both preorder and get the Collector's Edition. If you have even mild OCD you're forced to pay $60 early before reviews for the game come out. That is the issue here.