Just got Statue CE. Box is a LIE

[Arixtotle]

There was no mention that the content inside would be different though. This' an outrage and deserves compensation or partial refund.

Did you even look at the promotional picture? We got what was advertised.

[Rhaja]

Hold on, maybe I missed it, but the soundtrack does come with it? Because I could have sword the other disk was a making off disk.

[Bilal]

There isnt a soundtrack included.

[ExKage]

You got exactly what was advertised.

Look at the product page http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/heavensward

I don't see how you got anything different from what was advertised -to NA buyers-.

[PlumpyMcduff]

Eh, fair enough. I just decided to purchase it based off the video (I wasn't aware they'd posted this NA product page with pictures).

I know in the video they said the box would be different, no mention of different CD casing inside & such.

[Natashio]

I'm going with that the people complain here have no clue. This goes way back, back, back to when the Japanese started developing video games and then having the ports over to the West. The packaging is always better than Western packing. This is nothing new.

Here for those that have no idea:
http://www.lootchaser.com/east-vs-west-box-art/
http://www.gamesradar.com/why-japane...art-is-better/
http://www.denofgeek.com/games/25158...me-box-designs

[Shougun]

I'm going with that the people complain here have no clue. This goes way back, back, back to when the Japanese started developing video games and then having the ports over to the West. The packaging is always better than Western packing. This is nothing new.

Here for those that have no idea:
http://www.lootchaser.com/east-vs-west-box-art/
http://www.gamesradar.com/why-japane...art-is-better/
http://www.denofgeek.com/games/25158...me-box-designs

Funny on some of them I like the West packaging more.. lol. Definitely seems to be a personal bias on some of them (a couple do appear quite shoddy in quality but yeah..).

I've seen on a lot of products in the east (Taiwan, where I was mostly) where it appears a lot of money was put into packaging, I felt bad sometimes because of how much fluff and extra trash I had a the end of something simple like cookies (it was package inception, package within a package within a bowtied package). Of course packaging is important when you intend to keep them.. and maybe the east inappropriately assumes because we don't over package some products that we don't mind keeping memorabilia lol. I don't particularly like "packaging is always better than west" though, some of my favorite CE are western made and were cheaper lol - they just happened to sell that CE internationally too so it didn't become much of a "what we give them vs us" "minus cost of shipping and taxes - cause I'm not paying that".

[Natashio]

To me the ones that got the pass where the old PC and Atari packaging.