Wind-up Yotsuyu minion will be for one character only!

[LeoLupinos]

This isn't the first thread that came up with this "single character" optional items, and the other ones never got an answer.
Why the point to do threads if they are not going to answer here? I've never seen any responses and that's a bit hopeless.

[worldofneil]

if they've made it account wide before with other promo items why not now?

Officially their response was in the Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XLI Digest (1/30/2018) :

In-game Bonus Item Codes

Recently, players have noticed that the in-game bonus codes included with FFXIV-related merchandise have been character-specific rather than being account-wide. The reason is because there is a limit to the number of items that can be distributed service account wide, and it is currently difficult to increase this limit. We’ll continue looking into this moving forward, and will provide an update once we have progress.

Although as many people noticed, since they made the single character change (to the music rolls and the minion), they've since released 3 new mounts on the Mog Station that are each account wide (2 Carbuncles and the panda). Despite that, going forward in-game codes are still apparently single character only. Hate to say it, but since they didn't let us buy those mounts for a single character only and charged a premium because they were account wide... it does suggest that the limitation isn't actually so much of an issue if people throw enough money at them.

I've never seen any responses and that's a bit hopeless.

Some threads do get responses from the community team and some have even had the lead GM or Yoshida himself reply (or at least someone translating into English and posting in his name), but yes you're right the vast majority of threads have no feedback at all from SE. I'd like to believe they're at least reading them, but without any feedback we don't even know that for sure. Obviously we can't expect them to reply on every thread, but their presence outside the JP forums is so minimal...

I don't want to derail this thread, but right now as most people have noticed there's a lot of activity with the mobile application/other currency/premium etc... but still nothing from SE. At least not in English. We haven't really even been told about it yet either, 4 days on from the live letter and not even an official translation.

I've stuck up for SE with a lot of things in the past, but they're really not making it easy.

[Stormfur]

The best way to fix this would be to make all clothing glamours, weapons, hairstyles and bardings character-specific and make all minions, mounts, rewards and orchestrion rolls account-wide. If they cannot do the latter, then let alts purchase those items with certificate points so long as at least one character has redeemed the code for the item. Like if I redeem the code for Yotsuyu on Character 1, allow character 2 to purchase the minion with achievement points.

[zztoluca]

And the trend continues for the Stormblood OST. Page has been updated.

"... This item will be distributed to a single character of your choice on a selected service account..."