About the EU campaign for maid outfit and fat chocobo

[Theodric]

It's more than a little disappointing. They really should have simply added the items to the Mog Station for players outside of Japan. It's not fair to expect players in different regions to have to jump through all sorts of different hoops in order to acquire the items; especially when the cost ends up differing. Plus, unless I'm mistaken, UK players have to wait three months to get all of the items...whilst US and Japanese players could acquire them all immediately. I'm not fond of the 'selfie' aspect either. I value my privacy but I'll bite the bullet and do it anyway I suppose - yet I know many players won't want to do it themselves and so will miss out.

In fairness, though, it's likely clunky due to EU/UK law.

[Reki_]

I would imagine so the magazine can run an article publishing said pictures, as such I would personally recommend caution until they verify what it is they wish to use them for.
I have not purchased print games media in some years and during the time I did I long stopped purchasing Games Master Magazine.

As such I would like to know if these items can instead just be directly purchased instead as I myself have no desire to purchase what is required or give my picture to a 3rd party print publication for them to potentially make public.

I haven't followed the previous promotions but I do understand there was some user issues with them, however this seems far from ideal. If nothing else you should make clear to those in the promotion what the magazine intends to do with your images and how they will be stored, while of course people giving 3rd parties access to images of themselves is nothing new all parties should be aware of exactly what is intended.