Valentines day event fail

[MsQi]

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.

Well there was some change. It would have been more dramatic if the color changed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7Oh3K6Iz_0

[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...

[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.

[Daemius]

Not surprised by the results. Mad about it still? Yes. But not surprised. No more community determined events pls Yoshi-P, thanks. Just let us experience the quest of the person we voted for and all of this could have been avoided.

I take less issue with the results of Astrid's quest. As much as I love the lore and like it to be somewhat respected, I treat these seasonal quests the same way I do Manderville in that they should not be taken too seriously. Domestic/partner abuse is bad but don't let Marcette's treatment get to y'all that bad. It ain't that serious.

P.S level your crafters, it's easy with Ishgard Restoration and then you can just make Dalamud Red dye next time >_> <_< Also read the gotdang quest text.

[DynnDiablos]

I am not too thrilled with the end results that is for sure.

[Bacent]

Make the event change CLIENT SIDE so we can see what we voted for if they're ever gonna do another annoying event like this.

[Sathona]

At the end of the day people should accept majority of the people arent here nor reddit, they are playing the game.[i mean some ppl dont even read patch notes, let alone forums]~
And seasonal events with outfits or anything thats really cool pre-colored already is going to go with the color people like the most.
As someone said on another comment its better of giving a colorless outfit and if i may add once u took the outfit, the quest turn in on the last NPC would give u the dye of ur choise red,blue,yellow~