Yes, this really sucks. It was fun to give codes to people. Sometimes I even bought codes for strangers, something like event-emotes and stuff, just to make them a little joy. Now this is impossible. And for what? For some criminals, now the whole communtity gets bashed. Not good, in my opionen.

And I also think that there should not even exist in-game codes from merchandise or region locked events. That also sucks in general. It splits us in rich and poor, and divides us with rl country borders.

Isn't this ONE game with one big community? So why are there region locked things?
Most people also do not want these super expensive figures. They just want the emote-code that comes along with it, and pay a silly amount of money for this, and then try to sell the figure to get some money back.