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** From June 17 to July 7, 2011, McDonald's gave away one of twelve Generation V Pokémon trading cards with one of eight toys. However, none of the cards have more than 100 HP or an attack with more than 60 base power.
*** Though most of them can be used for evolving anyway. One can say that blinging out your Emboar or Zoroark deck with holographic McDonald's Tepigs or Zoruas can make it a bit more interesting.
*** Relatedly, McDonald's also had a give away of the aforementioned ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' cards. Pretty much all of them were useless at best.
* The in-game reward for finding incredibly rare cards in the ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' card game (or buying them for equally incredible amount of money) is always a novelty item with no benefit to put the finder above the resources available to other players.
** Note that this is actually intentional, Blizzard doesn't want player paying real life money for things that will affect the quality of actual combat, hence novelty is all they'll ever release. An active aversion to [[Bribing Your Way to Victory]].
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*** However, leftover event components may play this straight, if the leftovers in the server don't make enough to form one last Event Capsule or Mark.
** ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'' plays with this this: Though are many useless holiday and event items, many of them are actually genuinely useful.
*** Lampshaded with the Crimbo-only Pet Rock familiar, which LITERALLY doesn't do anything. Made an annual tradition with the functionally identical Toothsome Rock, <s> [[Portal (
*** And lampshaded even further with the O.A.F., a familiar which could only be gotten for [[April Fools' Day|one day]] by trading 100 of an item. The O.A.F. actually HURTS you in various ways.
* There are a few in ''[[Magic:
** Most aren't. Several were given away as promotions with books; all but one (Mana Crypt) fit this trope. One unique card was given at the opening of Wizards' first store in Japan. One was given to the 1997 World Champion. Three more were given to Richard Garfield to commemorate his proposal and wedding and the birth of his first child. Quite recently, Wizards has given its employees Unglued-style foil promotional cards at Christmas.
* ''[[Battlefield 2142]]'' came with some exclusive new weapons that you could only get if you preordered or bought it from a certain store. However these new guns had the exact same stats as the guns they replaced, basically making them reskins, and the fact that their in-game models were a lot bigger than normal meant having the original gun would be better as it wouldn't block the screen so much.
* ''[[Maple Story]]'' has a history of both playing this straight and averting it horribly. First, there's playing it straight -- there's the Maplemas/Versalmas Hat, which apart from looking funny and giving a little Magic Defense, gave you little else in comparison to other fun hats. Then there's the [[Card Games|iTCG]] ([[Fun
** Gelt Chocolates. You could only get them at Christmastime by participating in a Hannukah quest where [[Fetch Quest|you gathered altar pieces]] [[Randomly Drops|which dropped infrequently]]. However, you are well-rewarded because these little pieces of candy give you 120 Weapon Attack and Defense EACH, plus it makes you more accurate, dodge more, and able to jump higher. Needless to say, they are some of the most sought-after seasonal items in the game, right up there with a Halloween candy called a Heartstopper which does a [[Nerf|nerfed]] version of this.
** The aforementioned really high-level iTCG items, some of which happen to be able to be upgraded further. Then there's the items you could get from the manuals you redeemed the pieces of junk to get -- such as a Level 20 shield with 20 in both Weapon AND Magic Defense, a real blessing for classes like the Thief, which don't tend to get much in the way of Magic Defense, and the Antellion Miter, a [[Nice Hat|golden hat (that admittedly makes you look like a bullet)]] that gives hefty amounts of the same stats as the aforementioned shield, with added [[Mana Points|MP]] thrown in for good measure.
** They also did a promotion involving 7-Eleven where [[Bribing Your Way to Victory|if you bought a slushie or something]] you got a code to redeem in one of Nexon's 3 games -- in ''[[Mabinogi]]'', you got a set of potions. In another game, you got something even more useless. But in ''Maple Story'' you got a coupon for '''double EXP for a couple of hours'''. Needless to say, ''Maple Story'' got the best deal out of the three.
* ''[[Ragnarok Online]]'' got a lot of useless but cool looking and hard to get headgear. For example, there is the Boy's Cap, which don't do too much in the line of defense, but extremely hard to get. The player had to beat a certain boss monster, hoping that it'll drop a certain rare item, and the player must collect five of those rare item, only for a cap that'll make your character looks like a badass delinquent. Though, with RO being a sprite based game, the only customizable thing from your character sprite is your head. Each priest will looks like another priest except for his hairstyle, haircolor, and his headgear. So RO being a literal [[Planet of Hats]] is understandable.
* ''[[
** The Rift weapons are particularly notable - they do have unique effects (unlike the other promos), but they... kinda suck. They were a Baseball Bat replacement that dealt more damage to enemies who are on fire but less to enemies that aren't and can only be used by a class that can't ignite enemies, and an axe that can ignite enemies but can only be used by a class that has an infinitely-better flamethrower. However, you can still get them without buying the game, and the latter is the only way for that class to do ignite someone in Medieval Mode.
** The ''Shogun'' and ''Deus Ex'' packs avert when it comes to weapons, which all have unique effects, most of which are at least usable.
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