I've bought a lot of FFXIV official merch over the years because I love this game and I'm thankfully in a stable and financially secure enough place in my life to buy fun little things for myself. But I draw the line at this sort of crap. What's really made me angry is the two new portrait magnet sets up for preorder starting today.
Set 1 and Set 2 for reference.
When I first saw these previewed, I thought I'd probably pick up magnets for 3 or 4 for my favorite characters and call it good. But then I realized they're bundled in sets and you have to buy 8 magnets at once. Okay...that's kind of annoying as I don't want all of them, but whatever, I guess I'll have more magnets.
BUT NO
THAT'S NOT THE WORST PART
The most insulting thing about this preorder? You are forced to buy a set of 8 BLIND BOXES for that price!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!
So I spend all that money + shipping for only the chance at getting one of the characters I actually want?? And if I have extras or don't get the ones I wanted, it's up to me to go navigate third party resellers on Ebay to sell the ones I don't want and buy the ones I do want??
No. HELL no. We don't even know if the characters seen here are printed at the same rate or not. This is both predatory and wasteful and I can't stand it when companies do stuff like this. I wanted to make a post about it because I suspect that many others, like me, initially looked at the listing and the price and assumed you are buying the full set of 8 magnets with each character for that price. You are not. You are buying 8 random magnets.
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Set 1 and Set 2 for reference.
When I first saw these previewed, I thought I'd probably pick up magnets for 3 or 4 for my favorite characters and call it good. But then I realized they're bundled in sets and you have to buy 8 magnets at once. Okay...that's kind of annoying as I don't want all of them, but whatever, I guess I'll have more magnets.
BUT NO
THAT'S NOT THE WORST PART
The most insulting thing about this preorder? You are forced to buy a set of 8 BLIND BOXES for that price!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!
So I spend all that money + shipping for only the chance at getting one of the characters I actually want?? And if I have extras or don't get the ones I wanted, it's up to me to go navigate third party resellers on Ebay to sell the ones I don't want and buy the ones I do want??
No. HELL no. We don't even know if the characters seen here are printed at the same rate or not. This is both predatory and wasteful and I can't stand it when companies do stuff like this. I wanted to make a post about it because I suspect that many others, like me, initially looked at the listing and the price and assumed you are buying the full set of 8 magnets with each character for that price. You are not. You are buying 8 random magnets.
Continue reading...