Upcoming Gong cha x FINAL FANTASY XIV Collaboration Campaign

[Centershock]

And most of these are centered around major cities and their suburbs. So, it's probably quite a road trip and hassle for a fair number of people, especially since they are not located in every state. This is such a dumb promotion. Should have just kept themselves paired with Amazon. Yeah, that was annoying, but it was accessible to just about everyone.

Despite being in a major city in the US (Seattle), there isn't one around me. Agree that this promotion was dumb. I hope whatever method they make this available later down the line isn't as dumb.

[SeriousPan]

I'm just happy they're finally supporting Oceania with an event. There's one down the road from me so I can finally, for once in this games bloody life, get in on a collaborative event.

[4clubbedace]

If it's not available locally, it could be a fun opportunity for you to have a fun weekend getaway. Or, if you want "exclusive" rewards like this and can't be bothered to travel, there's always eBay.

I'm from the UK, we don't have access to the majority of such promotions, for example we didn't get the Mountain Zu, and that's okay.

It's a single silly mount you are never gonna ride on - it's not the end of the world.

it wouldnt work, theyre printed on digital buisness cards, so if you iss a day thaat cards are shipped, you coculd very easily gone on a 3 hour drive for nothing (outside of overpriced boba)

its just a bad way of doing a collab

[SeriousPan]

Heads up to anyone in Australia - Gong Cha isn't giving us the plastic cups because of our national laws against plastic reusables. So if you're like me and wanted to get them to collect them then you're SOL.

I didn't even want the mount lol. Oh well live and learn.

[GenAznX]

I heard it was in Canada too... :3

I think the idea of this type of collaboration is ALL about extra revenue stream for Square Enix. Gong Cha had to paid a sizable sum of money to Square Enix in order to get this collab. I am sure both companies overlayed the geographical distribution of players in USA over Gong Cha's location and made an arbitrary decision -- something like "oh Gong Cha's location is reachable within X miles by 70% of players. it's good enough to make a deal!"

We players often think about "fairness", but Square Enix is a business. They only think about how to maximize their revenue streams from their gaming assets. Truth be told, many players will be very disappointed because they cannot participate due to physical distance, but I would venture to say few would quit FFXIV over this.

[KisaiTenshi]

Despite being in a major city in the US (Seattle), there isn't one around me. Agree that this promotion was dumb. I hope whatever method they make this available later down the line isn't as dumb.

They're available in Vancouver BC, but they're not as common as say, Subway or Tim Hortons. Also, why " three teas in a single transaction "?

That said, it does feel like this was a "good idea, with bad execution" in which they should have partnered with Amazon.com/ca/etc to sell keychains that also unlock the mount.

[boopadoop]

the nearest gong cha store to me is over a 4 hours drive :')

[Rikka_Chu]

Promotion made by European department that was meant to be done for Europeans in the first place, considering previous colabs were done for US/JP only . Don't expect them to choose brand that's popular in USA as well, when they couldn't do same for EU. This brand literally exist in only 4 out of 44 European countries, and 3 of em don't have more than 5 shops in them.

[PaendeoLilli]

If you have friends that live close to one you could ask them to get you a code. I personally live 40minutes from one and will probably make the drive at some point before the promotion ends but I did ask a friend who is like 5minutes away.

[Doki]

One quick check on Ebay confirms the high likelyhood that Gong Cha employees are just auctioning the promo cards\items at a huge markup.