Potential Lock Giveaway

Massive reEDITing action: I need coffee...

I can see the skeptic's side of viewing this: as a (bad) marketing ploy.

Giving out a free item that only some people can use isn't screwing people who make them money since no one is entitled to have anything for free anyway; it would be an entirely different issue if people actually paid for these items and unknowingly fell into a situation where they had to spend more money to make any use out of it and/or did not work as intended (Shielding Wards glitch is a great example).

If this was our compensation for something Nexon owes us, then I would be pretty pissed... but it's just a freebie ;o.

You are missing the point. It is a freebie that is discouraging people from buying more of the item. The price is ridiculously high and you can't use it without also using a cube at the same time. If Nexon wanted a lot of people to buy this item, they should have done something along the lines of what Takebacker said. We aren't owed anything from Nexon, but it would have been nice if they didn't make this item work in a really stupid way.