• enkers@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    Maybe I’m just salty. After all, I am a British player on North American servers, so I will soon have the Mountain Dew exclusive rewards in front of my face with no way of earning them, while my American friends discuss how much Mountain Dew they need to buy to get cool items.

    I know the relationship is a bit tangential, but this reminds me of one of my favourite things on the internet:

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    6 months ago

    I remember when there was a set of creature parts in Spore that you could only get from a Dr Pepper promotion, and only in North America, of course.

    Got it from good people who were redistributing them, but still, yet another way the assholes at EA tried to make that game worse than it should have been.

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    6 months ago

    usually when it comes to collabs, its licensing issues, especially if aaid product or IP is handled by different bramches or organizations internationally