Well they get their patches a little later than we do. People are always talking about how they get less content than we do but what exactly are they missing (the gold saucer one was a mistake, they do have it). Some monster models are different and they pay different than us but that is all that I know about. Can someone say what is also different?
And I dont see them having a larger cash shop as something negative. Unlike us they have all the minions and mounts even those from 1.0 if I remember it correctly. They can also just buy the carbuncle minions there instead of having to buy merchandise. As a minion collector I kinda envy them..(Lets not talk too much about the butler/maid set that a lot European players wont be able to get that was just released there in the cash shop, yet this is till now not possible for the rest of the playerbase..) So they truly need to have a really big cut in their content for me too feel less angry at all those exclusive items..Also lets not forget that we only get those items now thanks to our complaints. This shows me that they had planned them as complete exclusives at the beginning and only changed their approach after all those posts and threads..
@Mimilu: Yes they are run by another company but its SE that owns the game and they created all those exclusive content. If they dont own the rights to those items anymore they could not have given us those items now..but even if they have some sort of contract that says that those items must stay exclusive for a time..they could just simply tell us this. Yet in the end we can only ever hope to get them..there is no 100% guarantee that we will get them later.
[And at the same time they take so long to just create a male version of the bunny outfit..it kinda feels like we are a second-rate player to them..]