Worst Fanfest Ever

[Selova]

No new healer job for what will be 6 years seems like a valid reason to be salty to me.

Heavansward launched with Astrologian 4 years ago, not 6. I mean yeah it's a long time, but I think people need to stop going in having such specific expectations and getting all upset when they don't live up to said expectations. Just because the player base posts what they want in the game all over the internet doesn't mean they have to cater to exactly what everyone wants. There's only so much they can do and expecting them to live up to everyones expectations is pretty silly.

[Gula]

I have been laughing for a solid forty minutes. This has been the best. More salt than The Lochs.

[YISUG]

*i didn't get what i want so its automatically bad*

[Xilibrius]

[Canadane]

Just got home from work and caught up on the fanfest details.
I'm actually excited and nothing has disappointed me since we all knew this was coming for months now due to that unmentionable event.

[ChaseNetwork]

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.

[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.

[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.

[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.