Fanfest 2016 - Not worth the price

[TiaHariberux3]

The thing that bother me with a 30$ stream (price of course but if people wish to pay, so be it) is that you could actually watch it for free at the same time on some plateforms where people were broadcasting it live :/
So you pay for it, knowing that tones of people will get acces to it for free, not very "nice" to me from $E :/

Well was kinda to be expected that people restream it. Not the fault of SE or the devs.

[Vydos]

I mostly bought it for the outfits and being able to watch the fanfest live was a welcomed addition.

That said! I really disliked that we had no chat. There is something nice and fun to be able to watch a livestream and share the excitement (or dissapointment) with thousand of other people.

[razzgrizz3]

It was a total joke. You didnt even have to wait 10 or however minutes to get the info people everywhere were restreaming the stream as it happened. The same will happen again during the next fests. Every time now i see someone with that 30$ minion or outfit i just chuckle...

Now the content as far as expansion info is concerned was a whole lot of NOTHING. Lets recap.
New jobs/zones/dungeons/primals/raid/alianceraid/diadem2.0/weaponskills/gear + some qol changes like battle system, ps3 support and inventory. Of course no footage of any of this save for some snippets of unfinished zones. What? All this is expected all this was guessed, we already get pretty much ALL of this during patches >_>. Not a single new feature anounced, bloody hells they wouldnt even do the people that paid the courtesy of showing of a job or a primal. ANYTHING substantial.

Well at least you got to bask in yoshidas heavenly presence <_< and help him fund his 3rd mansion.

[seraf]

I liked it just as much as the 2014 Fanfest stream. The only part I missed was having a live chat like the one from Twitch because it made the whole thing more social even if a majority of the chat was nonsense. It's always more fun to share excitement with other people at the same time we're all experiencing it.

[Anyan]

Does anyone know if we'll be able to buy official videos of the concerts? Don't think I've seen them do that before (would have been all over YT if they had). I don't want to watch someone's crappy cellphone footage. The concerts are the only thing I'd be interested in watching and I'd be willing to pay a little for it.

[KrenianKandos]

SE isn't the only one who does this. Blizzard does the same thing for Blizzcon you pay for the stream get in game pet. Mainly you are getting the outfit and the minion, stream kind of the bonus here.

Honestly it really wasn't that much money to get a minion and a cool FFX outfit.

BlizzCon also covers four IPs, has information for ALL four games, and tends to be pretty heavy in information when it comes to their panels.

To me, I was about to get the stream, but thought otherwise. I'm not playing enough right now to warrant spending money on this other than the 3 month sub I'm paying. The costume + minion wasn't worth it either.

Kinda bugs me when people compare BlizzCon to this. It really isn't the same. BlizzCon has a TON of content because it has four IPs. FanFest is one IP and the content given to us was kinda the same given in Dev Letters that Blizzard does from time to time.

The concerts were the pulling attraction to this, honestly. About all i was interested in, and due to my busy weekend schedule, it felt pointless.

So in short: This was 30 bucks to get a minion, a suit, and access to two concerts of one hour each. For most, that's actually pretty decent, honestly. But to me, the information given wasn't any more than your typical live letter that we get for free or a dev letter that could have gone out for the panels. Wasn't worth it.

My argument is also this: It is entirely unfair to say that BlizzCon does this when BlizzCon has a LOT more to offer.

[HyoMinPark]

I think the worth of this stream (or of anything really), is an extremely subjective concept. Some think the stream was worth it for the information that was posted on Reddit 5 minutes after it was streamed. Some people think the stream was worth it for the minion/outfit. Some think it was worth it for the panels and the concerts. And some think it was just a money-grabbing scheme made by a multi-billion dollar company. Worth is subjective.

I don't think it's right for those who don't think the stream was worth the $30 (or any amount of money at all) to put down those who paid for it, or laugh at them and say they were wasting their money supporting a company that doesn't need anymore income. Let's face it: even if a company is a multi-billion dollar company like SE or any other major/recognizable company in this world, regardless of that multi-billion dollar worth, they still have their own bills to pay just like the rest of us: from paying their employees to paying their electric bills. I don't know exactly how much organizing an event like this is, but I know there's no way it can be cheap. And like someone said before, if SE wasn't going to make a profit off of it, or find a way to make funds to pay for it/break even at the very, very least, they won't do it. No company will. That's just the way the world works.

In my own opinion, I did think the price tag was a little hefty, but considering what it would have cost me to actually fly out to Vegas and attend the fan fest in person, I would rather spend the $30 and enjoy the stream from the comfort of my own home (especially since I don't like flying D: ). Unfortunately, I had a family member that was going through some rough stuff, so I missed the stream because of that, but I don't regret purchasing it. Hopefully my $30 goes towards helping out this game just a little bit more. And if it just goes towards SE, well, it is what it is. Without SE, there wouldn't be a FFXIV anyways.

[Vaer]

The structure for Fanfest is also quite different. Technically in total Fanfest is 6 days in 3 regions. If they only did one event (it would probably be the tokyo one) the information would be much more frontloaded like at BlizzCon (which has been around for way longer, the first one was around 2005, almost 11 years ago), there would be barely any reason to hold information back if that was the case.

Fanfest being piecemeal also makes it more expensive (I would probably say $90 for all streams plus currency conversion so probably closer to 100$) but includes more regions.

[Lunavi]

Well at least you got to bask in yoshidas heavenly presence <_<

Totally worth it.

[Melorie]

It's quite amazing how people throw the "SQUARE IS POOR SMOL COMPANY".
Watched it for free, and it was... okay? I guess? I wouldn't pay 30 dollars to watch the whole thing tho. There was nothing really ground-breaking about the stream, except maybe the outfit but I'm not going to pay 30 dollar for an outfit and a minion, thanks.