Valentines day event fail

[Antonio_Xul]

...Not really, according to the line "...And where it has carried him is directly into the company of a most fetching young lass. A remarkable success, would you not say? Now come. Lisette will want to hear all about my success, and with all haste." suggests that his plan was actually to set Ywain (who is in in his 30s) up with Sylphie who is like 14.

I actually think Rodrigault’s ending is the best ending. He’s not going to date the young girl, she’s giving him great advice. He’s clearly ignorant of the fact he stinks and has a tacky outfit. She’s going to improve his chances at hunting down some of that pelt he was after once he learns to shower and dress like a pimp.

Astrid’s ending is far worse. Him embarrassing himself in front of Geva and then being taken away by that bossy bitch, Marcette, is way worse than taking a shower & new clothes, or Bert’s ending where he learns to love his wood by Master Beatin. I have 2 real life friends who ended up with bossy bitches as their wives and, trust me, they are miserable. It’s the worst situation to find yourself in. That’s not love, but slavery.

With Rod’s ending, he increases his chances at love, with Bert’s ending, he might find love at the Woodworking place, but with Astrid’s ending, it’s nothing but misery if he stays and if he doesn’t, he didn’t learn a thing and in the end, he stays lonely.

[EpicOverlord85]

You are essentially missing content. Programmed, meant to be seen in game content because of other people's shallowness.

Then I guess the content must now have been all that important.

[KraDawn]

It's kind of an unfortunate combination of jokes.

Marcette has been a questgiver since 1.0, so she has something of a reputation of being a terror and somehow gets away with being horrible in-universe. Either her first (or second) quest that she gives to the Warrior of Light involves having them collect some spore samples from a fungus that could potentially take over their body and kill them. Which she doesn't inform them of until after the fact.



2.0 gives her similar quests in Central Shroud, complete with a guy who continually begs you to save him from her whenever you chat with him, if I'm not mistaken. One of her quests involves having you kill one of those huge Morbols over by Haukke Manor for its stomach, after which point she basically calls you useless and refuses to thank you. The next quest involves collecting some fungus, after which she immediately forgets you did anything for her. And then comes her final quest to collect a Lightning Sprite...



Eventually, a Postmoogle quest was added for her and the Moogle is absolutely terrified at the prospect of delivering a letter to her, having you go in his stead. What follows is a quest wherein she threatens both you and another assistant (Hobriaut) with bodily harm multiple times while insulting you. The quest ends with her tormenting a live mole as well, purportedly in the name of science.

She also has an acquaintance, Atelloune, in the Stormblood Leatherworker questline. I believe she's name-dropped for the first time in the Postmoogle sidequest, but she may have been mentioned earlier. At any rate, while she is initially set up to seem like a terrible person by virtue of being said to be an acquaintance of Marcette's, the rug pulled from under you when Atelloune is revealed to actually be a pretty decent person who actually treats you with respect and never really throws you into dangerous/potentially life-threatening situations.

Marcette also cheats at Triple Triad, incidentally. And, I mean, most NPCs do, but it's still worth noting as a black mark against her!

My point is that when you see Marcette in the Valentione's quest, the message is less "It's okay for Marcette to treat Ywain like this" and more "Oh Lord, not her; Astrid, please reconsider", with the gag being that Ywain has no idea what horrible situation he's getting himself into. Unfortunately, without the benefit of knowing Marcette in advance and/or the fact that this is supposed to be an event where you're trying to match Ywain with his ideal partner based on the outcome of a vote, it can come across more uncomfortably than the writers probably intended! It's kinda like the whole "Rowena keeps Gerolt in eternal servitude" thing all over again.

Oh, I did not know that at all. Thank you so much for the in-sight on Marcette!

[Liale]

It's more than just the quest endings too, the decorations were supposed to change with winner. Since Astrid won, nothing changed. I really wanted to see the other two's decorations as well, maybe they were recolors of the old valentines day housing items that we have never seen since you can't recolor them. Or maybe they were new valentines day decorations. Now we will never know.

[Saix027]

I also skipped it since such quests were boring, i rarely do that normally, but then to add ot the confusion, friends todl me cloths are deyable but also boughtable again from the session trader, so choosing was still a thing from the looks as many said here, i mean what was the game team thinking here? Bad NPCs, bad story as far i can tell, rewatched some scenes if you wonder, and overall bad event overall in my eyes, no effort unlike other events in comparison.

[wereotter]

So with regard to people voting based only on the color of the outfit.... I'm not surprised that so many people didn't even bother to watch the cutscenes and just picked red because Valentines. Another solution to this for future events might be make the outfit grey, and make the dyes purchasable from the seasonal vendor for all three colors for something like 100 gil. Nothing extreme, but giving you the option to display who you wanted without much of an investment, and without incentivizing people to just pick based off lazieness of not wanting to dye the items later.

But beyond that.... I feel like something else here is that they split the vote. People who wanted the cute, probably underage, female to win had one choice and one choice only. Those who didn't had two. This makes people who were voting based off that alone split between two choices. If Astrid were just running against one of the other two, I do think there's a chance you might have seen her lose on some worlds. Or they need to make the choices more even, like with the Songbirds. I'm willing to bet there was a pretty even split between who people picked to headline the show a couple years back because the options were move fair.

It seems the only real area people were actually evenly divided were the people who read the options and picked based off the quest dialogue. So to that end, I think they nailed that part.

[Theodric]

Well, another factor to consider is that realistically Astrid should never have been a candidate in the first place. Though we already saw nepotism at play with Lyse, so Eorzea seems to be prone to such things...

[Klareh]

Branching story was a nice idea. Letting cutscene-skipping masses decide how the story ends for everyone was not so good. I would have liked to see the elf guy's version.

Those who want to compare the three:

https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Bert%27s_Big_Idea

https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/R...27s_Revelation

https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Astrid%27s_Acumen

[Naria]

If they wanted Red, Blue, Yellow as the colors they should have just used the Songbirds. Astrid could have been their supervisor or something. That would have solved the cute and known vs not bias at least.

[Vahlnir]

I chose red because I liked the color scheme more. It actually had nothing to do with the holiday. lol If it was sort of "rigged" to begin with, however, that was kind of a jerk move.