Stop the Drink Collab Mounts.

[AstreaLove]

Can you just stop with the nonsense!

Stop putting mounts behind these stupid ass drink collaborations.

First it's the dumb green Mountain Zu mount, that you get from Mountain Dew, a drink that's not particularly popular in Europe and hard to find in stores, and especially since you had to buy very particular flavors of the drink, flavors that are unavailable.

And now it's the dumb ass looking pig King Porxie, from Gong Cha drinks, another brand that doesn't exist in Europe, it's impossible to get those codes here where I live, this is so incredibly dumb.

You have to make the mounts more accessible, as a mount collector this hurts the collection, since they're unavailable where I live. These limited collabs are beyond stupidity, who the F at Square Enix thought that this was a good idea?

Just stop these stupidities. OR Pick brands that are ONLY available in Europe.

[Vahlnir]

Yeah, they would be smarter to do collabs with companies and brands that are more widely available on a global scale. You know, considering there's players across the world who play this game. Otherwise, it come across as disrespectful to their customers when they drop the ball like this repeatedly. And otherwise, they should really stop making them such a pain to participate in like that Butterfinger receipt crap. Maybe this stuff works in Japan for all I know, heck, I see The Pokemon Company running promotions like this all the time IN Japan, but I can assure you SE it's awful to deal with elsewhere.

[Gunz_Zbestest]

They really should just add them to the market place after a while so that promo participants can show it off for the first 6 months. Like they did with the pizza emote I believe.

[NekoNova]

Just adding my +1 to this...

There's one Gong Cha store located where I live, and they aren't even participating in the promotion, meaning it's impossible to even order the drinks and get the code.
And that's the official store listed on the Gong Cha website.

My feedback to Square-Enix is this:

Stop with these FOMO promotions. Put these mounts simply on the item store, and people who want it will buy it.
These events are organised horribly, exclude the majority of the world from even participating and create tension and frustration between people because content for a subscription based game is unobtainable.

[Deejudanne]

its not really "fear of missing out" when you're only missing out cause you cant do sht about it

[Eyrilona]

Having unique in-game rewards for people who were able to attend a particular one-time-only fan convention or other event in a particular geographic location at a particular time is a very Japanese thing, that just doesn't translate well once the audience becomes global. A hardcore JP gamer might get on the train from Osaka to buy merch in Nagoya, but you can't with a straight face tell your players in Latvia that they can get an exclusive mount only by traveling to some small store location in Belgium.

[NekoNova]

Having unique in-game rewards for people who were able to attend a particular one-time-only fan convention or other event in a particular geographic location at a particular time is a very Japanese thing, that just doesn't translate well once the audience becomes global. A hardcore JP gamer might get on the train from Osaka to buy merch in Nagoya, but you can't with a straight face tell your players in Latvia that they can get an exclusive mount only by traveling to some small store location in Belgium.

I would be totally okay with mounts or minions being exclusive to large events such as the Tokyo Game Show, or E3 or GamesCom.
Because those are large enough events that would warrant this, allow a lot of people to grant access to it.
But a collaboration with a bubble tea store that has stores in 7 countries in EU, with not even all stores participating?

Ideally speaking I'd like to see none of it though....FOMO is bad and should be stopped.
Just put it on the ingame store...

[Oizen]

It be nice if this game didn't consistently crossover with the shittiest/most obscure things.
Mountain Dew tastes like sewage, could we not pick a better beverage?

Could even expand it to the came crossovers, Fall Guys already died off of relevance by the time the crossover happened, and when was the last time anyone actually thought about Yokai Watch

[Loggos]

It be nice if this game didn't consistently crossover with the shittiest/most obscure things.
Mountain Dew tastes like sewage, could we not pick a better beverage?

Could even expand it to the came crossovers, Fall Guys already died off of relevance by the time the crossover happened, and when was the last time anyone actually thought about Yokai Watch

Yeah this confuses me too?
I would have assumed that Square Enix of all companies would have enough of a reputation and leverage to get interesting brands and franchises for collabs on board.

I mean personally I actually really liked Fall Guys (Yokai Watch...not so much) but I had the biggest WTF moment when I saw that crossover because their brands are just...so different? I wondered who came up with it in the first place. The Fall Guys aesthetic is the completel antithesis to FF... (Again, I'm glad it happened but it's still a real head scratcher.)

[Icaras]

I've not had a chance to visit my local Gong Cha yet (I walked past it on my way to work today when it was closed. By the time it opens I don't have time to stop in as I have to catch a bus home), but I didn't see any collab posters in the window, and even their Aussie site seems to make no mention of it (Apparently they posted on Instagram, but I don't use that site).

The thing that gets me tho...apparently the codes are both on physical cards (in 2024!) and extremely limited in number. Like...you try to drive people to a tea shop to buy three drinks (And bubble tea is pretty sugary/unhealthy as is), but then only give a small amount of codes on printed cards? Like...how hard can it be to just have a fresh code printed on receipts? I've been seeing that there's already people buying and scalping the codes.

Also, the collab keyrings are not available in Australia (But they are in New Zealand. *HUHN!? cat meme*). Gee, Square screwing Australians again, why am I not surprised? >.<;