Valentines day event fail

[Klareh]

I'm going with the hope that they ignore Rodrigault being creepy and she's just sprucing him up. She called him old anyway. I'll take him getting a makeover to show that he's eligible over being treated like s*** with Astrid's choice.

[sauc]

Reality is people wanted red and couldn't care less about anything else

[Sated]

I'm going with the hope that they ignore Rodrigault being creepy and she's just sprucing him up. She called him old anyway. I'll take him getting a makeover to show that he's eligible over being treated like s*** with Astrid's choice.

Rodrigault ended up being a creep but at least Lisette acknowledges it's not a match and that it's more about the makeover. Overall the whole ending ended up ignoring the actual advice people would have voted for which was to find himself, not get roped into a make-over. Best advice gone horribly wrong.

[Klareh]

Rodrigault ended up being a creep but at least Lisette acknowledges it's not a match and that it's more about the makeover. Overall the whole ending ended up ignoring the actual advice people would have voted for which was to find himself, not get roped into a make-over. Best advice gone horribly wrong.

All 3 choices seemed to flop, which kinda makes the event end on a sour note.

[KylePearlsand]

I will admit, it was 3 AM when I voted and I completely misinterpreted what Astrid meant by "New Horizons". The next morning when I read the forums about what she really meant made me feel a tad guilty. The result of the quest ended poorly as well and made me wish I voted Bert. So sorry Ywain, hope to make it up to you somehow. Maybe play floor tank for a year.

[DeMarcy]

I just understand the pattern of the event- each of the three stands for one typical guild in Gridania:
Astrid - Leatherworker guild
Bert - Carpenter guild
Roadrigault - conjurer guild

[Theodric]

People shouldn't be voting if they're ignoring context, though unfortunately there isn't really a way to avoid that happening. At least it's consistent for seasonal events to be written rather poorly, though...

More thought seems to go into the decorating of the housing districts/original city states than the actual quest chains with only a few exceptions.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

People shouldn't be voting if they're ignoring context, though unfortunately there isn't really a way to avoid that happening. At least it's consistent for seasonal events to be written rather poorly, though...

More thought seems to go into the decorating of the housing districts/original city states than the actual quest chains with only a few exceptions.

The real takeaway here is that voting happened the same way it does in real life. People vote for a color instead of what people say.

[MsQi]

There should have been at least one world on each Data center for each one. Most people don't seem to be paying attention anyway, and they haven't shown us any actual numbers. At least those that care about the story could have jumped to another world to see the one they wanted.

[Rahela]

I doubt this result was intentional on the part of the dev team's, but there's 'slightly biased choice' and then there's 'EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THE 68 FFXIV SERVERS IN THE ENTIRE WORLD ALL GOING FOR ASTRID.' Especially when she's widely considered to have the worst advice, and has the worst end result!

It's weird at best, and downright suspicious at worst. I get that seasonal events are a good chance for the devs to experiment with new ideas, but this one was a bit of a dud. Especially because I've heard that the other two quests literally had to be datamined for people to actually see the other ways this event could have gone down.