EU Fanfest Info Thread

[Alleo]

First I am going to say: I had a ticket for the fanfest but thanks to sickness and wrong booking I did not go. Yet I am now kinda not feeling that bad for not going there. (Other than my lost 150 €..)

Well since they keynote is I will try to write down my opinions on it:

Positives:
- The new cities do look nice
- theme music also was great
- its nice that we get more than one country
- Samurai looks cool too
- the housing zone itself looked beautiful and we will finally get the movement that they promised for a long time

Negatives:
- only two new jobs even after not getting a new race
- no information about customization and not even a detailed information about the increase of inventory
- lots of recaps for such a short keynote
- housing is still not instanced thus it changes nothing about the real problem
- the landscapes other than the cities dont look that exiting but maybe that will change

What I am not really sure about:
- the WoL having to liberate not only one but two cities/states. I fear that if we dont get much more quests than HW this might turn into another Uldah situation..and going forth and back between two countries to save them might feel odd. Also it just kinda feels like a repeat of Ishgard..with freeing the city, but this time its double the amount and instead of dragons its humans
- the situation in Doma with the big city sounds a lot like Ishgard too. I mean how often will they play the "dont want strangers in their city" card?
- barely any new informations about Ala Mhigo. Either they want to keep it fresh or it might not even play that much of a big part in the expansion

I know this will sound really negative for a lot of people but I just cant feel really hyped for the expansion. I mean new countries are nice and I am happy that the big city looks really cool but how many people are truly in those after finishing the quests there? In the end it was really telling that even the crowd was not that exiting too.

Edit: Oh and it was nice paying over 30€ for a stream that starts to stutter quite often..I missed half of the trailer thanks to that and also the introduction video of the samurai. >_>

[RukiaFae]

I was thinking the same thing. Their faces showed a lot of disappointment. Lol I felt a little bad for Yoshi.

[Yukiko]

- the situation in Doma with the big city sounds a lot like Ishgard too. I mean how often will they play the "dont want strangers in their city" card?

My guess: Its related to Japan history

Sakoku (鎖国?, "closed country" but commonly translated as "period of national isolation") was the foreign relations policy of Japan under which severe restrictions were placed on the entry of foreigners to Japan and Japanese people were forbidden to leave the country without special permission, on penalty of death if they returned. The policy was enacted by the Tokugawa shogunate under Tokugawa Iemitsu through a number of edicts and policies from 1633–39 and largely remained officially in effect until 1866, although the arrival of the American Black Ships of Commodore Matthew Perry, which started the opening of Japan to Western trade, eroded its enforcement severely.