Worst Fanfest Ever

[KokonoeAiyoko]

No excuse for gender locked races. Just lame, plain and simple.

[Kaedan]

No excuse for gender locked races. Just lame, plain and simple.

Lore/story design. There's your very valid excuse. You may not agree, but that's the wonderful thing about opinions.

Personally I'm glad they held their ground on the lore this time rather than caving to complaints.

[Vanitas]

*Best fanfest ever!
I'm pretty good at fixing text.

[Sigma-Astra]

It would of been better than more things that have limits.

Do you always act like this when you don't get what you want? Do you go to the store and say no milk is better just because they don't have your brand on sale?

Imagine going through life like this.

[Gula]

*Best fanfest ever!
I'm pretty good at fixing text.

Lalas are Drawven subhumans confirmed. You bet it's the best.

[Xilibrius]

People are complaing about gender locked when things could be worse, it could be like tera where not only are races gender locked so is the classes. i'm okay with gender locked races.

[Khalithar]

Very dissapointing anouncement.
Started 20 minutes late.
Half the time was spent rehashing old anouncements.
Dwarf beast tribe are just Lalafells with less rights. No announced primal.
Dancer, ranged physical. No clarification on damage type. Slashing would be useful for a ranged physical type.
We're going to an alternate Eorzea, which is basically the same land, just slightly different development.
Male Viera do not exist for the same lore reason that moon Mi'qote shouldn't exist.
Got Furry Roegadyn, aka Hrothgar, which was already sniped from the french leak.

The concept of "fighting for darkness" is literally just fixing the daylight and weather cycle of the planet. Fantastic. Not even that we are missunderstood, we're just literally doing the opposite of FFXV and fixing the planet's rotation to get a nighttime, instead of a daytime.
Half-baked Eden announcement after the Paris FanFest. "It wasn't ready" What, that artwork wasn't ready? A seedling with a small patch of grass in the middle of a wasteland wasn't ready?
Making a point about Gaia's hammer. Did we forget about Nero and Grynewaht? That "teasing" was pointless the moment they ended the English Commentary stream without a surprise reveal of a hammer job (which healers would demand at least this if not Dancer).
One of these is Marketboard City. The other is Tomestone City.
Crystal Tower and Limsa Lominsa.
Lakebed is Mor Dohna.

And then ended on time, despite 20m late start. Fantastic.
Welcome to reskinned assets, the expansion.

Basically summed up how I felt about it. Normally the last fanfest in a cycle like this would be where they reveal all their big stuff and last minute surprises. I was kind of shocked by all of it really, this is one of the worst they've done in a while. Even the audience was really quiet! I remember the last fanfest where the audience blew up when Yoshida came out in the samurai AF, everyone went crazy. Whereas at this one? The entire JP audience was practically silent with only some small applause here and there. The lukewarm reception basically summed up the reception as a whole I think! I'm also genuinely surprised they actually added a gender locked race, I was under the impression that they weren't going to do that again and that they learned their lesson with roes/miqo. On the other hand, at least for the races it is possible the other gender could be added later. Let's not forget in 1.0 that the miqote and roes were gender locked as well and that eventually got fixed after a while, that could very well be the case here.

The late start of the stream really set the tone for the entire presentation for me and it really made it all feel rushed and not very exciting. The new zones and music were cool to see and I actually really appreciated the lore and story presentation we got. Dancer looks like it could be fun and making it a ranged dps was actually a very interesting creative decision and I am really curious to see how it plays. But then I saw some of the things I didn't like which you mentioned above. I'm genuinely surprised by their decisions for this one.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

Lore/story design. There's your very valid excuse. You may not agree, but that's the wonderful thing about opinions.

Personally I'm glad they held their ground on the lore this time rather than caving to complaints.

Sounds like the same reasoning for the race locks in 1.x....

And they unlocked them.

[kazzel120]

Hopefully, there’s like a surprise healer announcement. I definitely am feeling tired of our current heals.

Guys i can understand no new healer announced this time. But when they showed Gaia Yoshi talked alot about how they can make the hammer work so possibly a new healer they might spring at the last few months before release.

Personally i was hoping for dnc healer to go with the new Gunbreaker but either way dont just give up hope yet because Yoshi hides too much in what he says.

Anyway heres to hoping for a hammer healer for all you healer mains who keep tanks like me alive.

Posted in another thread but i also think he might say something in one of his live letters later.

He did at one point say he's having a long one before the expansion drops.

[Jkap_Goat]

Very dissapointing anouncement.
Started 20 minutes late.
Half the time was spent rehashing old anouncements.
Dwarf beast tribe are just Lalafells with less rights. No announced primal.
Dancer, ranged physical. No clarification on damage type. Slashing would be useful for a ranged physical type.
We're going to an alternate Eorzea, which is basically the same land, just slightly different development.
Male Viera do not exist for the same lore reason that moon Mi'qote shouldn't exist.
Got Furry Roegadyn, aka Hrothgar, which was already sniped from the french leak.

The concept of "fighting for darkness" is literally just fixing the daylight and weather cycle of the planet. Fantastic. Not even that we are missunderstood, we're just literally doing the opposite of FFXV and fixing the planet's rotation to get a nighttime, instead of a daytime.
Half-baked Eden announcement after the Paris FanFest. "It wasn't ready" What, that artwork wasn't ready? A seedling with a small patch of grass in the middle of a wasteland wasn't ready?
Making a point about Gaia's hammer. Did we forget about Nero and Grynewaht? That "teasing" was pointless the moment they ended the English Commentary stream without a surprise reveal of a hammer job (which healers would demand at least this if not Dancer).
One of these is Marketboard City. The other is Tomestone City.
Crystal Tower and Limsa Lominsa.
Lakebed is Mor Dohna.

And then ended on time, despite 20m late start. Fantastic.
Welcome to reskinned assets, the expansion.

You summed up perfectly for me as well, very disappointed with DNC as a DPS and not a healer, I wanted something new, something freshz and I got so excited I started playing FFXI just to get a crack at DNC and I was thinking of a melee healer, something that the other healers don't have and that is unique. Heart dropped when they said it was a DPS and I was hoping for male Vieras because, it makes sense to not have gender locked races. I thought SE learned their lesson with 1.0 and now again because of LORE!?!? male Miqote ( keepers of the moon) is the same way as male Vieras so I am disappointed in those who wanted male Vieras playable. I'm sorry guys

After that announcement, I stopped watching the stream.