Dalamund Minion

[DoctorMog]

I'm waiting for the NA exclusive minion.

Yeah, I'm looking at you SE.

[finiteHP]

lol dont fool your self ppl , 80% of you would not buy this or even consider buying it if there were no minion

illegally download it maybe half of you but the rest would not take it if it were free

i hope they release it here with out the minion lets see who will buy it than

I guess I'm part of the 20% then. What I want is the soundtrack. While some of the minions are cute, I can't see myself using any of them to be honest.

[Yrusama]

What is the big deal? NA companies region lock their stuff all the time and no one complains but those outside of NA. It's pretty much just marketing and nothing new in this or any other industry. "You're in NA? You can buy this and get this special item! You're in Europe? You can buy this and get this special item."

No one seemingly complained when only Europeans could participate in events unless their country wasn't included.

If it were anything else, whatever. But this is the ENTIRE 1.0 SOUNDTRACK and a Dalamud thingy. 1.0 was not Japanese-exclusive. If it were a JP-only manga with no digital bonus explaining the backstory of Hildibrand or something, I'd understand. But no, all witnesses to the end of 1.0 should be treated to anything pertaining to its harbinger.

[Yrusama]

lol dont fool your self ppl , 80% of you would not buy this or even consider buying it if there were no minion

illegally download it maybe half of you but the rest would not take it if it were free

i hope they release it here with out the minion lets see who will buy it than

I'd buy it without the Minion. I've been asking for a hard copy of the 1.0 soundtrack for a long time! But it would be nice to have access to the Minion.

[Majidah]

I am very concerned that they will continue to make region locked digital items... this is the kind of thing we hoped 2.0 would be rid of.

No one said it was region locked. They just aren't localizing the sale of this OST outside japan. You could always buy it with a proxy.

But 50 bucks for an OST? What a rip off.

[ArkhamNative]

No one said it was region locked. They just aren't localizing the sale of this OST outside japan. You could always buy it with a proxy.
But 50 bucks for an OST? What a rip off.

Well, I wouldn't call it a rip-off. It's Blu-Ray-only, music and video. How many hours of music* must this be? And yes, the minion is a huge selling point (even as terrifying as a Dalamud minion would seem to be ).

But elsewhere Abriael posted a response he got from Soken saying to please wait for an official announcement, when he asked if it would be released in the west. So there's no hurry, we don't need an answer immediately. (Its release even in Japan is mid-August.)

*Edit: Someone said Soken said this contained 6 hours of music. They even showed a collage of the videos from it.

[prymortal]

http://www.square-enix.co.jp/music/sem/page/ff14/BM/

[Darte]

Thats 2 items NA/EU won't / haven't had the opportunity to obtain (the other being the mogumogu earrings)...

[Pinot]

NOT FAIR :'(

I want the minion too.

[Fatestorm]

Subscribing to this thread in case of future news. I'd love to buy this soundtrack but I'm a little technically incompetent when it comes to region-locked formats, and I'm unsure if I paid to import it if it'd even work with a NA player. Thus I would greatly support a NA release...