Why are we getting into "who's got it worse"?

Every promotion has its problems even if there's no outside partner.

SE would need to partner with something like McDonalds and get them to involve all their regional subsidiaries to pull off a good promotion. There aren't that many companies out there with substantial international market penetration to cover every place that players live.

Insert obligatory "why are they giving these items away via third party product sales when they could be giving us ways to earn them in game".