[Request] Please release the exact voting numbers for the latest seasonal event!

I'm sure I'm not the only one who would like to learn just how many votes each candidate involved in the voting process received. I'm particularly interested in learning if Astrid truly had the majority of the votes or if Bert and Rodrigault had more overall between them.

Either way, such information would be beneficial if released to players in the name of transparency - especially given the nepotism involved in one of the candidates (and ultimate winner) being a relative of the hostess of the event in question.

As if they have any reason to publicly come out with the number of players who have completed a part of a seasonal event.

Thus the reason is being supplied to them - to fulfill a player request.

They should make the figures transparent or just not bother with a vote.

Well, I don't really need the exact numbers, but a dashboard with at least percentages on the colors per world would be already helpful...

Yeah I'm really interested too. I was really hoping that I could hope servers and do Rodrigault's quest if he didn't win on mine.

>: Very disappointing...

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Originally Posted by Theodric

I'm sure I'm not the only one who would like to learn just how many votes each candidate involved in the voting process received. I'm particularly interested in learning if Astrid truly had the majority of the votes or if Bert and Rodrigault had more overall between them.

Either way, such information would be beneficial if released to players in the name of transparency - especially given the nepotism involved in one of the candidates (and ultimate winner) being a relative of the hostess of the event in question.

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If these were real people you would have a point, but the entire thing is purely fictional.

If SE were truly setting up for one candidate to win why would they have even bothered to have a vote in the first place? There was zero controversy surrounding Astrid before and the other two are completely new characters. If SE really wanted to have only Astrid win, then why bother setting up a story with a vote? They could have just done what they did last year, and have no voting with a totally different story but still have Astrid as a central character.

You're reading way too much into this. Astrid won because of bad planning and poor decision making on characters and colours. Not because there is some conspiracy in SE.

The event was a rushed job. That's it. It's not that deep.

Lisette's blatant corruption and nepotism must be punished. Let us hope that she will be forced to step down from her position before next year's event goes live.

tbh I didn’t really care to much for the event, or outfit. Though I think everyone is so bored that there isn’t much else to focus on, at least the new patch is almost here.

I'd love to see the numbers, but even a % would be interesting.

Player census info is always fun to look at; also curious to see more in-depth breakdowns like if there was a significant difference between players above/below 35, or max level.

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Originally Posted by Theodric

Lisette's blatant corruption and nepotism must be punished. Let us hope that she will be forced to step down from her position before next year's event goes live.

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She was pretty unhappy with me about voting for Rodrigault :) Off with her head!

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Originally Posted by Theodric

Lisette's blatant corruption and nepotism must be punished. Let us hope that she will be forced to step down from her position before next year's event goes live.

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I concur, I would even go as far as to say that Lisette, and even Astrid, should no longer be part of any seasonal events going forward. They've run their course and they stifle the ability to meet new, maybe more interesting, NPCs.

Bert and Rodrigault were a slight step in a different, and more interesting, direction. But Astrid, who people knew more about through the previous Valentione event, stole too much of the limelight.

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Originally Posted by Penthea

If these were real people you would have a point, but the entire thing is purely fictional.

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The event was a rushed job. That's it. It's not that deep.

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To me it's more a question of whether or not a game system is bugged really. (Unless it's been mentioned already and confirmed it's not)

It's a system which has produced the same result across the board when there's meant to be multiple potential results, that's a bit weird, not impossible but weird.
Numbers/percentages would have variations and the like, maybe some worlds were close, maybe it was just a massive landslide, etc but it would help show it wasn't a bug and the like.

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Originally Posted by Theodric

I'm sure I'm not the only one who would like to learn just how many votes each candidate involved in the voting process received. I'm particularly interested in learning if Astrid truly had the majority of the votes or if Bert and Rodrigault had more overall between them.

Either way, such information would be beneficial if released to players in the name of transparency - especially given the nepotism involved in one of the candidates (and ultimate winner) being a relative of the hostess of the event in question.

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So, Im lost. Apparently Astrid won, but what benefit do we have exactly by the Voting Numbers being released? Like what are we trying to gain with this, whats the goal/endgame?
In the Name of Transparency, sounds like you think there is something going on behind the scenes, or...something. IDK, Im not really getting it.
Are people just upset that Bert didnt win?

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Originally Posted by Zanarkand-Ronso

So, Im lost. Apparently Astrid won, but what benefit do we have exactly by the Voting Numbers being released? Like what are we trying to gain with this, whats the goal/endgame?
In the Name of Transparency, sounds like you think there is something going on behind the scenes, or...something. IDK, Im not really getting it.
Are people just upset that Bert didnt win?

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...the post you quoted even highlights the reasoning proposed for the request. It's the second sentence.

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Originally Posted by Theodric

...the post you quoted even highlights the reasoning proposed for the request. It's the second sentence.

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I'm particularly interested in learning if Astrid truly had the majority of the votes or if Bert and Rodrigault had more overall between them.
Ok.....so again what Benefit do we get from this, knowing the Voting Numbers?

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Originally Posted by Zanarkand-Ronso

I'm particularly interested in learning if Astrid truly had the majority of the votes or if Bert and Rodrigault had more overall between them.
Ok.....so again what Benefit do we get from this, knowing the Voting Numbers?

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Typically when votes are cast in an election, the overall result is broken down into specific numbers. That aside, if Rodrigault and Bert turned out to have more votes than Astrid between them then that would indicate that the competition would have been fairer had there only been two candidates standing rather than three. Some people also just find it interesting to examine numbers in general.

Though there's definitely arguments to be made as to the odds being unfairly stacked in Astrid's favour outright, given that she's the only one of the trio to have shown up during past events and her colour is the same one most frequently associated with the event in question.

I hated having to vote between the three of them anyway, so frankly I don't care how the votes were cast.

The real losers are the players. There should have been contingencies to allow the alternate quests to be shown in-game despite the stars not winning. Frankly I'm glad Astrid won, but I'm not thrilled at how the losing characters were shoved aside. I would be just as upset if Astrid lost.

Is there a place that at least shows who won? Interested to know if astrid won every world of every datacenter, or was there a world with a different result somewhere?

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Originally Posted by Rufalus

Is there a place that at least shows who won? Interested to know if astrid won every world of every datacenter, or was there a world with a different result somewhere?

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This is what I personally checked

Aether
Adamantoise Astrid
Cactuar Astrid
Faerie Astrid
Gilgamesh Astrid
Jenova Astrid
Midgardsormr Astrid
Sargatanas Astrid
Siren Astrid

Primal
Behemoth Astrid
Excalibur Astrid
Exodus Astrid
Famfrit Astrid
Hyperion Astrid
Lamia Astrid
Leviathan Astrid
Ultros Astrid

Crystal
Coeurl Astrid
Mateus Astrid

Chaos
Cerberus Astrid
Louisoux Astrid
Moogle Astrid
Omega Astrid
Ragnarok Astrid
Spriggan Astrid

Light
Zodiark Astrid

Elemental
Unicorn Astrid

Gaia
Valefor Astrid

Mana
Anima Astrid
Asura Astrid
Belias Astrid
Chocobo Astrid
Hades Astrid
Ixion Astrid
Mandrgora Astrid
Masamune Astrid
Pandamonium Astrid
Shinryu Astrid
Titan Astrid