To date, various regional versions of Final Fantasy 14 have gotten exclusive items, while other regional versions, namely NA and EU (this includes AUS as well), have never had such a pleasure. Yes, I am aware NA and EU Fanfests are getting exclusive minions but those will be obtainable by other regions for purchasing the respective streams.
Now, amidst the outcry from the community, some of these items have been made accessible to other regions. We received the Panda and the Magpie in the Mogshop and Square Enix partnered with Amazon to bring NA the JPN exclusive items with a promise to the EU community that such a promotion would come their way soon as well.
However, despite requests from Yoshi-P to give him feedback regarding our desires to see exclusive items become mutually inclusive, there are still several that remain locked behind regions. There have even been threads before this one with over a hundred replies,
like the one found here, but no official response on when, or if, we’ll be getting the rest of the items.
And, to make matters more frustrating as of 6/17/2016 they have announced even more exclusive items for Chinese version of the game, leaving other regions without a single exclusive item to have ever been given to them.
Does this affect my ability to play the game? Certainly not. They are, at the end of the day, just pixels but it does affect my enjoyment of the game to a certain extent. I may be North American but my heritage is certainly from more than just this region and I would find great enjoyment in being able to celebrate my mixed ancestry with some of these items, especially ones that touch on mythos near and dear to my heart.
So please YoshiP, Developers, Marketing, Square Enix, I ask for you to kindly reconsider this idea of exclusive items. Even if you don’t stop doing them in general, at least make them accessible to other regions in different ways, it truly would be appreciated.
Exclusive items still region locked:
Female Chinese styled outfit
Male Chinese styled outfit
Korean styled outfit (male and female)
Chinese ‘Dragon’ reskin
Chinese Sun Wukong items (Mount, Outfit and emote)
Exclusive items given to some regions:
Summer ‘DLC’ Items JPN Exclusive released to NA via Amazon
Exclusive items given to all regions:
Panda Minion Released in Mog Station
Magpie Minion Released in Mog Sation