Old Minons

[Lambdafish]

Well, I honestly wouldn't mind. I bought the physical item for the actual item...

Thats anecdotal evidence as to why it wouldn't be an issue though. Can you imagine buying the Odin statue for $200 and then the emote being immediately put on the mogstation.

Like I said, the only solution is through merchandise. These codes need to be more readily available, but through the merchandise, having a limited run with a code that expires causes problems like this. If you could go on the SE store and just buy the before meteor soundtrack for the minion regardless of when in the games life cycle you are at, then people would be a lot happier with it.

Oh, and if your argument (this is directed to anyone) is that minion collectors shouldn't have to buy merchandise, I will remind you that minions aren't supposed to be collected like that, and that if you really are a die hard collector then you will conform to SEs distribution of bonuses (because I am honestly sick and tired of minion collectors complaining and dictating reward distribution of content, ala ranked feast).

[Dustytome]

Thats anecdotal evidence as to why it wouldn't be an issue though. Can you imagine buying the Odin statue for $200 and then the emote being immediately put on the mogstation.

If I were willing to pay that much, it would be because I wanted the statue and not the emote that comes with it. Getting the emote that came with it was a perk. At the point that promotion ended you'd have to pay $200 for the statue still and then the price of the emote from the mogstation on top of that if you wanted both. If you only wanted the emote then you'd presumably pay much less and there's one less odin statue sitting in storage or buried in a landfill. I of course can only speak for myself in this situation.

[HyoMinPark]

I'd really like for SE to just start printing the soundtracks with valid codes again.

It seems that they're moving away from expirations on DLC, what with the Wind-up Nidhogg and Wind-up Hraesvalgr codes not having expiration dates on them. So I would think it wouldn't be too much of a kick in the teeth if they just started printing valid codes again, and included them in future presses of the older soundtracks. I personally love the music in this game (and in most Final Fantasy games I play, tbh), so investing in the soundtrack is something I would do. The minions would be a nice bonus as well. :3

Some items I do think should retain their exclusivity (i.e., preorder bonuses such as the Cait Sith Doll or Black Courier Chocobo Chick minion), but I don't see why some would get upset if SE just started making more codes for the Wind-up Bahamut and Dalamud minions.

[Alien_Gamer]

I'm one of the people that missed out on both the minion and their attached items. I personally would love it if they'd bring back those promos.

[Sakuraluna]

I'm one of the people that missed out on both the minion and their attached items. I personally would love it if they'd bring back those promos.

I wouldn't mind them bringing back the promos either, just not the minions alone. Don't just throw them on the cash shop and be done with it.

[Dustytome]

I wouldn't mind them bringing back the promos either, just not the minions alone. Don't just throw them on the cash shop and be done with it.

But if they bring them back that way only, what do they do about all the people that bought them with expired codes? Should those people then have to pay an additional $50+ to get the promotional item only available by purchasing an item they already bought?

[Iromi]

Thats anecdotal evidence as to why it wouldn't be an issue though. Can you imagine buying the Odin statue for $200 and then the emote being immediately put on the mogstation.

Yes, I can. I have it and again I could not care less. ^^ Everything I buy from SE I buy for the item..again it really does not bother me at all.

In fact I gave my emote to my BF from the statue, I don't really care..heh. I just want my friends and others to be able to obtain these minions, because I get asked a LOT where I got them from...so figured it would be nice to see idk.

[Vidu]

But if they bring them back that way only, what do they do about all the people that bought them with expired codes? Should those people then have to pay an additional $50+ to get the promotional item only available by purchasing an item they already bought?

How about exchanging the expired codes for valid ones? I amdit that I dont know how that could work from a technical point, but it should solve the problem

[Lambdafish]

But if they bring them back that way only, what do they do about all the people that bought them with expired codes? Should those people then have to pay an additional $50+ to get the promotional item only available by purchasing an item they already bought?

Easy, proof of purchase between two certain dates, and you can get a free code. It's a bit much work for SE to consider it, but not entire unfeasible if they want to push these minions back into circulation (which they have no reason to care about)

[Dustytome]

I could see Blizzard doing that, having a hard time envisioning Square going out of their way though.