Yesterday, Final Fantasy 14 announced a collaboration with the bubble tea cafe Gong Cha in which fans can buy Cactuar, Fat Cat, and Chocobo-themed drinks to earn keychains and item codes. However, in just 24 hours, stock is running out and being plastered all over eBay for hundreds of dollars.
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A post on the game's subreddit calling the collaboration "terribly done" hit 800 upvotes before being almost immediately deleted. The poster claims that there were only 27 codes in the one Gong Cha near where they live in Sacramento, California. Since it was the only one local to them, it was "insanely busy". They allege that they waited an hour and a half for just three drinks only to find out that they'd run out of the very limited number of codes.
In stark contrast, others claim that they were given multiple codes after simply asking, rather than having to buy multiple drinks. But as eBay shows, a lot of these handouts are now being scalped for extortionate prices.
Gong Cha sells milk Bubble Tea for around $5....
