Why offer merchandise exclusive minions/items when they almost instantly sell out?

[Bloodyrains]

It's pretty annoying when merchandise that offers items are almost always out of stock.

Not to mention that I've been waiting for the "Before Meteor" soundtrack to go up and it finally did but without the Wind-Up Dalamud. At this point they should just add the minions to the store if they can't keep up with the supply and demand.

I doubt SE cares at this point but I'm just venting out my petty frustration.

[Rakiria]

It is horribly frustrating though, especially the minion stuff. Why only add that to the first few? That only causes people to want to buy it less. If they didn't limit ti that much, people who manage to buy it now atr going to buy it anyway, but the ones who don't manage to now would more probably do that if the stock and ingame-bonus wasn't so limited.
I wanted to buy the soundtrack, but since there won't be the minion that you originally got with it... Meh, i can just listen to it on youtube.

[DamianFatale]

I just want those prime mogs..

[Genaxx]

So more people will buy them. These posts are a prime example.

[Esp]

To this day, I am STILL on the waiting list for the emerald carbuncle....

[ErryK]

The idea of first-run bonuses is to promote preorders. Preorder, and you'll get the reward. Don't preorder, and you might lose out.

[Paladinleeds]

The idea of first-run bonuses is to promote preorders. Preorder, and you'll get the reward. Don't preorder, and you might lose out.

But what if you pre-order and still don't get the reward?
(Fortunately I have never been in this situation but still)

[ErryK]

But what if you pre-order and still don't get the reward?
(Fortunately I have never been in this situation but still)

That has never been a case with items I purchase with SE so I cannot speak on that. But that is the intention behind first-run copies, as they are the first copies to be delivered/sold.

[Antonio_Xul]

You would get even more sales if you include the minions. Removing the minions is dumb and hurts your sales and profit. I mean it's only pixels. They can't run out of pixels. They should seriously bring back the minions on these items and send the ones that bought the CDs without the minions a code to get theirs, too.

[Spy]

I probably wouldn't be so peeved about it if the actual line situation hadn't been such a mess. I got there an hour early, and was tossed between 4 different lines before being told the line closed. I managed to get a red ticket at least, but missed out on the lore book, which was the main thing I wanted (besides Fat Cat)