Fanfest Premium livestream

[kiraan]

WOW, people are really this bad at life? As with many of the other comments I have seen in this thread - this mentality is just atrocious.

So..you only bought a ticket for the ingame items? Wait, what? Get real.


The experience is what this kind of event is for. Perhaps you shouldn't have bought your ticket (like a few other people in this thread complaining as well) and left them for other people who actually wanted to go and EXPERIENCE the fanfest. Also, IF your health is and and you have a hard time on airplanes, you do not have to go. Don't pay for the tickets, the airfare and hotel and get on the fourm to bitch because you have the privilege/money to go and others cant....but your in game items ??!!?!? Please. What in the world is wrong with people these days?

*you will be able to purchase things that the streaming people cannot and who knows, you could bring home Ebola too. :P

True, you go there for the whole experience, not so info the whole world we'll get 5 sec after you or some in game goodies that would have been, one day or another, given in another way.

[VoltaAsura]

True, you go there for the whole experience, not so info the whole world we'll get 5 sec after you or some in game goodies that would have been, one day or another, given in another way.

But who pays for a Fanfest ticket, airfare and a hotel (food even!) for an ingame item? You have got to be kidding me.

[FifthDream]

WOW, people are really this bad at life? As with many of the other comments I have seen in this thread - this mentality is just atrocious.

Grow up.

I say this because no one with any maturity would make light of a disease.

Someday when you grow up, you may realize that there are things more important than spending a bunch of money and time on something that can be "experienced" at home. I planned on going to "experience" witnessing producers revealing information, seeing cosplayers, watching "live entertainment" (which, i may remind you, has never been revealed, so as far as i know, there is none). But since i can "experience" every single event at home, i see no need to sit and feel crappy for 14 hours on a plane. I'll spend a couple extra days working this month, and with my family, and sit back and relax while i see what i originally was lead to believe could only be "experienced" in person.

[VoltaAsura]

Grow up.

I say this because no one with any maturity would make light of a disease.

Someday when you grow up, you may realize that there are things more important than spending a bunch of money and time on something that can be "experienced" at home. I planned on going to "experience" witnessing producers revealing information, seeing cosplayers, watching "live entertainment" (which, i may remind you, has never been revealed, so as far as i know, there is none). But since i can "experience" every single event at home, i see no need to sit and feel crappy for 14 hours on a plane. I'll spend a couple extra days working this month, and with my family, and sit back and relax while i see what i originally was lead to believe could only be "experienced" in person.

Nothing I said in my post was immature, and you act as if I could read between the lines and know that you had a DISEASE? My apologies.

It is still absurd to pay for a ticket so you could acquire an ingame item...regardless if you are actually going or not.



There's no reason to scold me and tell me, "when you grow up"...you have me wrong friend.

[FifthDream]

...and know that you had a DISEASE? My apologies.

Nah, you said something about ebola. I never said i had a disease, just that plane rides aren't a lot of fun. But thanks.

I listed a few reasons i was planning to go. The in game item is nice, but i can get it with the stream ticket (assuming they're still offering them. They haven't updated yet).

If i have you wrong, i'm glad to hear it. I just know how i was when i was younger, and how time has changed my priorities greatly. Three days downtime (Th, F, M) for two days of "experiencing" things (Sa, Su) that it turns out i don't have to actually GO to to witness, or spend a huge chunk of my life's savings to go to? Nah. Just wish they'd told me sooner so i didn't have to make plans, and waste a ticket someone else could have used. I was eager to go, for the reasons i listed, and more, but the "and more" no longer outweighs the inconvenience.

[Tempting]

Everyone needs to stop jumping on everyones cases about this.

I don't think I have read 1 comment that has said, "The only reason I was going to fan fest was the item".
Square Enix has certainly gone about announcing this live-stream terribly. The fact that everyone talks about the "experience" when you get nearly every panel down to even walk-through of the floor kinda is a lot of the "experience" all the non-fanfest people are blabbing about.
Square went to the trouble of pointing out multiple times how the tickets were non refundable and you had to attend to get all rewards (in and out of game), but never could mention in the same sentence about a live-steam? Yeah...Okay...

No one would be arguing about a single thing if SE woulda done like every other company and announced at the same time there would be a live-stream.
I am going to Fan Fest and am very excited, but mainly because its in Vegas. A lot of the "special" was taken out when a 20$ live stream was announced.

[Zartemis]

Honestly, I'm gonna agree with Tempting here: Square Enix really backhanded us on this one. There was a lot of puff up about you not getting your nice presents if you didn't show up, and now not only can everyone get one of the likely more used and seen presents, the ingame one, but it's cheaper and you don't leave the comfort of your home.

There's something to be said for the experience of being there, and being able to take part, yes, but I'm sure quite a few people were at least half motivated to join in the ticket grab for the fact that they'd get an exclusive sort of thing in the game that this is all about. I can only hope that there's something among the other prizes we get that's similar but properly only awarded to fanfest goers. Maybe something for beating one of the ingame challenges there, or for the Live Quests.

[Catwho]

Thing is, it was people on this very forum (first example I found) who cried vocally about not being able to get a fan fest ticket, and begged SE to add an alternate method of obtaining the in game item. ESPECIALLY since they had a server cluster**** that prevented a lot of people from even trying to get tickets.

So they did.

Can't make everyone happy :/

Edit: Another example

[beth_ann]

Seriously? I knew I did not have the money or the health to attend. I would have loved to, but seeing as I too have health limitations, I knew better than to put it at risk. The immaturity is blaming a gaming company for your choices. I am GLAD SE announced this bonus because now I am able to participate in something my health would otherwise prohibit me from attending. Choices are just that, choices. No one held a gun to your heads and forced you to purchase anything. I wish people would start accepting responsibility for their choices instead of blaming others. Complain all you want. If you go, you will be receiving something those of us who only get to view the live stream will not be getting - the collective excitement that is generated at large events such as this. I will be sad that I only get to view it, but my choice was clear. This is my opinion, take it or leave it, but there is no need to argue it with me as it is highly unlikely that I will come back to this thread.

[GeneralBeolve]

Yes, it's our own choice to attend, but you have to keep in mind that our choices were heavily influenced by the information given to us and what we were lead to believe. When I heard about the fan festival, I was on the edge about wanting to go, and up until the announcement of the Moogle attire being given to ticket holders who actually attended the event I probably wasn't going to go. It was the extra in game item being marketed as being exclusive that gave me that extra push I needed. If I would have had any idea they would spring this on us after the fact, I'd go for the livestream.