Valentine's event 2019 info released

[Kuroka]

At least some pinkish, heart shaped armlet or some totally over the top girlish furniture.... i want smt cute for valentine and ladys day Q_Q

[Jojoya]

I think the complaints about "Why aren't the stabby things even thematically appropriate?" are kinda funny.

Like, maybe wait to see what the story is before judging?

Because a Valentine's event that rewards stabby things sounds to me like it could be pretty amusing.

Anyone who didn't do the event last year can look at the chair mounts and think "that must have been from Valentione's Day".

No one unfamiliar with this year's event is going to look at the Gigas sword and do the same because the appearance does not fit the theme. It doesn't matter what the story is.

I do agree that this year's story could be amusing if those specific items are a part of the story but it still doesn't make them good rewards for the event.

The main problem with food furnishings is once you place them they cannot be removed from that house.

That's been partially fixed. You can place and remove as long as none of the charges have been consumed.

I agree it's something I wouldn't want to do if the housing is shared with others. Someone accidentally eating a charge means you're screwed. I wish they would make them strictly decorative. Recipes for consumable versions could always be added to CUL.

[Beckett]

Oh good. x2 new consumable food items that we'll only be able to buy for $5 per item on the Mogstation after the event is over. -__-;

I definitely had this thought as well, but at the same time, boy those new food furnishings sure look nice.

Just buy a bunch now?
People don't actually eat these foods right? They are basically house cosmetics like eating the bowl of plastic fruit
Dont

Understandable they should be in the vendor next year but complain when it happens not a year in advance

We're much better off now than we used to be, thanks to Storage, the ability to store partially-eaten food and the ability to pick up uneaten food, but I still can't help but think that SE focuses more on adding food furnishings as event rewards above other types, because they know the food can be consumed and will need to be replaced via MogStation.

If you have an FC house, any food you put in it will be eaten, and there's really nothing you can do about it. A general concern for all furnishings is that you might find a use for them later that you weren't expecting during the event. I know I sure wish I had bought way more of the Far Eastern Doll Displays. So now I buy way more event furnishings than I think I'll need, and put them in Storage, but Storage is finite and I'll eventually run out of room. The only sustainable way to have all event furnishings whenever you need them is to buy them for real money off of MogStation, even if you already earned those furnishings in-game.

If the intent behind these furnishings isn't to eventually get people to re-buy them on MogStation, why not simply add them to the Recompense Officer like the other event rewards?

[Gemina]

The main problem with food furnishings is once you place them they cannot be removed from that house. At best they can be stored. Another issue is you can't set permissions for others with access to the house to be unable to use the food. I have heard of incidents in which a fc member ate all of the stacks of event food and it couldn't be bought again until it reappeared in the Mog Station several months later. They basically destroyed a furnishing that couldn't be replaced for a very long time.

A meal furnishing doesn't just disappear from its placement if all the servings are consumed. They need to be removed by the owner. You just can no longer get a meal effect from them. Event meals provide very little stat bonuses, and they are intended to be themed decorations for those who have eatery designs for their homes. Even if all the servings are taken, they still serve their purpose, and you can store them to bring out again at your leisure. The reason why this guild member over indulged is likely because these meals still provide the 3% exp bonus that all foods do.

This year's event rewards are disappointing to me and a large reason why is the food. I don't play drk and I only lvled cul to get cross-class skills so I don't care about the class-based rewards. What's left for me are the furnishings but two out of three are food...so basically the doll is the only thing I can actually look forward to getting. Yay.

Some players such as myself have both DRK and CUL at max level, and still don't care for these items. I'd actually get more use out of the food decorations and doll because the weapons are just going straight into the armoire. So if your intention is to use the food items as décor, you're gold. But if you want food to be available to eat then why are you getting upset if people actually eat them?

[Nihility]

A meal furnishing doesn't just disappear from its placement if all the servings are consumed. They need to be removed by the owner. You just can no longer get a meal effect from them. Event meals provide very little stat bonuses, and they are intended to be themed decorations for those who have eatery designs for their homes. Even if all the servings are taken, they still serve their purpose, and you can store them to bring out again at your leisure. The reason why this guild member over indulged is likely because these meals still provide the 3% exp bonus that all foods do.

you sure about that? in my experience a fully consumed food just leaves the empty bowl/plate behind

[BiffWellington]

I think it'd be really nice if food furnishings had a cooldown instead of charges.

[Alestorm]

I think it'd be really nice if food furnishings had a cooldown instead of charges.

But.... then they couldn't get you to buy more in the cash shop when a random FC member eats it all.

[InkstainedGwyn]

you sure about that? in my experience a fully consumed food just leaves the empty bowl/plate behind

Yeah, a meal furnishing disappears, which is how we got sinks (cake platters), "empty dishes", empty baskets, etc. before they finally decided to start giving us some of them as furnishings.

[ChaseNetwork]

I don't understand the Gigas Sword or the Tonberry Knife.
In fact, I know they just added the Gigas Shield to the Gold Saucer in 4.5.
Glamour item for a DoH? Odd. Why's it not the Mainhand tool? Tonberry Knife... okay, but many of the knives already look like that. I sort of get the theme in that Cooking is tied to Valentine's Day (in reference to making the chocolates for your interest). So doing something for the Culinarian is acceptable, but the Tonberry Knife isn't what I'd take. How about a Frying Pan that has a heart on the base of it? I know that can't be hard to make. It would literally just be a texture swap, which would take a professional (4 years AAA game experience being a prereq to join these companies) maybe a couple quarters of time to throw together. Frying pan with a heart on it would go over better.

Gigas Sword? Why are you not in the Gold Saucer with your Gigas Shield friend? You don't even look good... Not to mention, how do you fit in to the theme? Butcher your lovers with lame sword? Again, Tonberry Knife is closer to base with this one (even if we're still talking about a knife Tonberries just use to shank people mercilessly, and doesn't even look great).

I'm also concerned about whether I can put these in the Armour Dresser thing, cause I will never use them, but their limited release retain inherent value.

I would take a frying pan with a heart on it over the Tonberry Knife. Sure, it would technically be infinitely more development than the Tonberry Knife, cause the Tonberry Knife asset already exists, whereas the texture of a heart on a frying pan would have to be made, but as I said before, that would be maybe 50 cents of time to actually throw together. I'm sure a developer in charge of the event spent at least 15 minutes in a day getting paid to smoke.

Gigas Sword... What? How about WAR gets Julia Manderville's oversized Frying Pan glamour instead? Add heart to that too.

I'll just give SE $100 if they can give me a reason to appreciate whatever lore would make the Gigas Sword and Tonberry Knife actually seem appealing for a Valentine's Day event.

[Penthea]

A meal furnishing doesn't just disappear from its placement if all the servings are consumed. They need to be removed by the owner. You just can no longer get a meal effect from them.

That's misleading. What happens is the furnishing turns into stuff like empty plates, empty baskets, empty cups and scattered cutlery. Sure the furnishing doesn't disappear but it literally changes into something else when all the stacks have been consumed. The food and drink disappears. Visually speaking it's no longer the same furnishing.

Event meals provide very little stat bonuses, and they are intended to be themed decorations for those who have eatery designs for their homes.

Which begs the question, why make it edible?

That's been partially fixed. You can place and remove as long as none of the charges have been consumed.

Well that's a step in the right direction. Thanks for the info.