We should show our love for FFXIV maid outfits

But not spamming the foruns and spreading misinformation about SE actions (btw, I'm not talking about you, the community is doing that). There is a context behind these prizes, and people are ignoring it. It's not like SE is making this region-locked because she's mean and only care about japanese players. It's not like SE do not recognize that we want the maid outfit.

I just think that people need to CALM DOWN. Anyway, I hope that the promotion is a success and I can grab my maid outfit soon.

At first, SE didn't show any interest in adding the Lightning Strikes items to the cash shop. Apparently they wanted cross-over and special event items to be exclusive. They changed their stance due to overwhelming demand. (Not to mention FF14GilHub was a gray area considering their own precedent) Now we have two things happening at once. The first is that the english community showed an overwhelming demand for items that were locked to other regions. The second is that we're showing an overwhelming interest in a special promotion being held in Japan. See the common link here? Region locked exclusives isn't the best thing for the community as a whole. Not for SE, our region, or the others. Everyone should have some way to participate in these things even if the items are one time only.

I pay 15$ a month for the content like everyone else, why shouldn't I be allowed access to this? There's this strange bit of nationalism involved with Japanese companies, another example is Dark Souls 3. It's out in Japan and will be available on steam in a week, I imagine the only reason we don't have it at the moment for digital download is that sense of nationalism. I don't really understand why a company would limit itself like that.

There should be a bigger emphasis on America doing that all the time and in other forms of trade or media. American movies, for example, are super popular in foreign countries, yet they don't see that until months later sometimes. Games made domestically don't get released worldwide simultaneously as well usually, as was stated.

To be fair though, the Souls series has reached a rather huge fanbase to make it essentially a AAA title ever since Dark Souls, so a simultaneous worldwide release expectation really isn't hard to justify people complaining about. I'm just going on a tangent with FFXIV Power leveling. The underlying point is that we tend to only look at what's wronging us, and how inhumane or unfair it is to us... not so much about how it affects anyone else but "me" though, if the tables were turned and it was other people who didn't get something we did. It's very funny to see it happen like clockwork.