Did Astrid Get the Most Votes on Every Server?

[Dogempire]

Why do people keep bringing up Astrid’s age? What does it matter if she’s “underaged”? It’s not like the event is setting her up to end the day with her ankles behind her ears, and Eorzea always seemed pretty lax when it comes to their social and cultural stance on such parings anyway.

I didn’t vote for her, but please stop passive-aggressively projecting your insecurities onto those who did.

Her age isn't really important, but she's still the "cute" female character that you already know, uses the colors traditionally associated with valentine's day, and the other 2 choices are grown men (Who frankly aren't even attractive) and who you don't know and don't have very desirable colors for a valentine's glamour, plus a lot of people have already admitted to just choosing Astrid because they wanted red clothes and couldn't even be bothered to read the site that says that the outfits are dyeable, let alone actually read the quest dialogue and make an informed decision.

A lot of people voted for a color and a "cute" girl, and not an idea.

[MomomiMomi]

A lot of people voted for a color and a "cute" girl, and not an idea.

All three ideas sucked, so I voted for a cute girl and a color.

[Belisaire]

I found all of their ideas to be pretty bad.

Astrid's seemed like a pretty sketchy proposal. Bert wanted the guy to get a hobby and maybe then Ywain would have something to talk about with someone. Rod's suggestion to go soul searching but the goal was to get Ywain a date.

In the end I went with Astrid b/c her idea was at least one that directly would put Ywain in contact with someone, whereas the other two it was sorta dubious whether Ywain would even talk to someone at any point.

This is despite the fact that I actually find Astrid to be rather awkward and creepy (as all Elezen children who are not the Leveilleur twins are).

I do hope we get to see some storyline in future events with Bert the Beloved and Rod, hopefully not in a voting contest though.

[Dogempire]

All three ideas sucked, so I voted for a cute girl and a color.

Fair, but the difference is you took the time to think about all the ideas before voting, instead of going "Ooh red and I know this person" and clicking on them to vote while skipping all dialogue and cutscenes.

[Kusanagi7]

its true i picked astrid cuz she was wearing 1 of my favourite colors if 1 of the other 2 wore red id have picked them instead and no it wasnt cuz im lazy i buy dye alot so think what u will the event didnt really interest me.

[Alacran]

All this Astrid salt and i'm over thinking...

"What's up Lisette, that time of the year again? What that, your sister is in a contest this year? Say no more, i'll help her out, we've been friends for awhile, so a little help is no problem at all. Besides, I can't say no to to a pretty elf girl, if it helps your sister, bonus."

[ElazulHP]

All I know is I picked the blue one because the guy gave the only good argument. Plus blue is better and the thing is dyeable so it literally doesn't matter. *shrugs*

[ElHeggunte]

It's nothing to do with insecurity. It's no secret this community has a huge bias towards cute, young, female characters. [...]

Her age isn't really important, but she's still the "cute" female character that you already know [...]

Yes, and that's all true and fine, but I'm specifically addressing the numerous comments I've seen on these forums and on reddit where the poster makes it a point to emphasize the fact that Astrid is "underaged" (instead of just saying "young") with the connotation that Chris Hansen may show up and ask you to take a seat if you voted for her.

All I know is I picked the blue one because the guy gave the only good argument. Plus blue is better and the thing is dyeable so it literally doesn't matter. *shrugs*

Yeah, I voted for Rodriguez Rodrigault too because his idea seemed to be the most practical to me.

[Sairys]

To me it's really just an issue that Astrid won everywhere because it kinda makes the whole event and time spent on it feel a bit pointless. So hopefully SE is reading to find out why the results were so lopsided and keep that in mind if they try this sort of event again in the future.


That said, Astrids advice does seem in-line with behaviours of someone I've worked with... he's spend a lot of time in meetings with HR.

[TwiibieTwuu]

So much HQ Salt just because Astrid won.

Personally Glad i voted for her. Rod came off as a bit of a snob, talks down at you after you picked someone who wasn't him. and Bert was a derp.