Disappointed in Youkai Watch

[vanitaslaughing]

Man, this entire thread is a riot.

On a more serious note, however... OP pulling the "you're not a true fan"-card was incredibly childish. I got into Final Fantasy as a whole back in 2013-ish, since the last time I tried a FF game I was much much younger and incredibly bad at losing, blaming the game for my death/s and discarding it like common trash. As a side effect of me getting over my scorn for Kingdom Hearts for exactly the same reason, I started giving these games some of my friends had been talking about for ages a go. And I ended uploving them,thus even going as far as getting a PS4 for myself after Christmas together with FFXIV. Said PS4 has been almost exclusively used for FFXIV since, I've gotten both artbooks, have the ARR Collector's Edition (because they were out of normal ones at the store after Christmas), I've gotten back into writing fanfiction because of this game.
Am I not a FFXIV fan simply because I got into the game late (in late 2014), or because I enjoy immersion-breaking things like silly events or running in circles for 3 hours to get every single piece of swimwear because we just got back from our trip to New England a few days ago, the jetlag settled, and the event was about to end?

Now, I do agree to a certain point - the lore of FFXIV is amazing and I want to see more of it. PotD especially made me want more, given how we pretty much ended everything with Ishgard for this patch's duration and we are on the waiting list for 4.0 now.
Now that the event itself has begun, I have to admit... They incorporated it pretty cleverly, actually lore-fitting, no matter how absolutely ridiculous everything looks. It'd make sense for these Yokai to be around SOMEWHERE on Hydaelyn, and since we have to basically lure them out to befriend them, well. I have to applaud how they melded together FFXIV and (what little I know of) Yokai Watch while being true to both games' settings in its own way. It's basically a crossover fanfiction done very very well, and I have to admit that made me laugh. It's very silly and lighthearted, but it feels right somehow (unlike last year's Hatching Tide... Augh, that was out of place).

Now, I don't care much about Yokai Watch, personally. Probably like a vast majority on the English-speaking part of the forums, probably like the majority of the Germany-based FFXIV-players like I. Does that mean I want the event to end immediately because I, personally, don't care and know that much?
No.
I know there's people VERY MUCH enjoying this, such as my friend. He's been up and at it for hours now, and he's about (or probably got it while I was typing this) to get his 13th minion, and probably rather close to his third weapon. He's taken a break from FATEs for a couple minutes to just scream about how much he loved the minions and feeding them at the FC Estate, which I had to admit was in both parts adorable and really really dorky.

Yes, people are gonna run around with that dumb mount, and maybe the minions for a while after the event concluded. Yes, it might break OP's immersion because they do look out of place, but you know what else looks out of place? The Dwarf Bunny minion, to name one. There's no actual bunnies seen in the game, they're only mentioned when compared to Spriggans once or twice. We don't see them, we know they exist - thus actually seeing one is hilariously out of place, or extremely rare.
Does that sound familiar to anyone who started the Event?
It's exactly the same explanation they used for the Yokai minions. Or well, maybe not exactly the same, but you get my point. By relating it to the Gold Saucer they made it even more of a silly fun part-time thing - no one's forcing anyone to gamble, let alone get wrapped up in some weird business relating to minions and then to creatures from another place.

Also, if you're so fixated on immersion for RPing, then maybe... I dunno. There's linkshells and the such. You can also not do the event and ignore the minions/mounts as well as you can, naturally after said event concluded because the grand majority of the playerbase are going to do this right now. It'll calm down eventually. You can also choose to do the event but not use it when you're trying to get properly immersed or are RPing. I guess.

As for the people screaming "PRODUCT PLACEMENT", tell me the Lightning, FFXI and the Dragon Quest events weren't product placement either. And the whole "as long as it's part of the Final Fantasy series" argument makes no sense whatsoever. FFXIII's universe, as much as I personally dislike it, it vastly differs from FFXIV's. FFXI might be similar in nature, but once you think about it more, both games start to appear different rather than similar. Dragon Quest, on the other hand, ironically enough might be the closest to FFXIV background-wise, but it is not part of the FF series at all.
Therefore, by that argument, it makes no sense at all for either of the former crossover events to have taken place at all. Yet they happened, pandering to people who have played these games and/or trying to net more customers by making the rest interested in FFXIIILR/FFXI/DQ.
Is that bad? Nah, that's just 2016 for you.

/rantover, I had to let that out before returning to my second anima, haha