Valentines day event fail

[wereotter]

The color choice is a mistake.
If they wanted to make it even then they should give:
Astrid - dalamud red
Rodrigault - pure white
Bert - lotus pink

I suggested elsewhere.... but they shouldn't have made the reward color coded if they wanted people to vote off the actual contestants. If the outfit was white to start with, and then you were rewarded dye pots to match your chosen candidate, or the pots were made available to purchase with chocolates after you voted, then that would eliminate aesthetics from the voting equation.

[Divinemights]

Event did not fail.
It is actually a success.
People will now take this more seriously instead of just skip skip and skip
I welcome this type of quest in the future, maybe in the MSQ in the future.

[Ammokkx]

Event did not fail.
It is actually a success.
People will now take this more seriously instead of just skip skip and skip
I welcome this type of quest in the future, maybe in the MSQ in the future.

I'm not sure why you think the same people who didn't bother to read the event text would, at all, care about the result. People who didn't take it seriously aren't suddenly going to take it more seriously after this minor happening, if anything, the only thing this serves to do is annoy people who do take these things seriously.

[Divinemights]

I'm not sure why you think the same people who didn't bother to read the event text would, at all, care about the result. People who didn't take it seriously aren't suddenly going to take it more seriously after this minor happening, if anything, the only thing this serves to do is annoy people who do take these things seriously.

Are you sure?
Let's say for the future reference, S/E put this system into MSQ with 3 different Glamour sets in 3 different route.
Would you still say people is not going to read it?

[Ariane]

I suggested elsewhere.... but they shouldn't have made the reward color coded if they wanted people to vote off the actual contestants. If the outfit was white to start with, and then you were rewarded dye pots to match your chosen candidate, or the pots were made available to purchase with chocolates after you voted, then that would eliminate aesthetics from the voting equation.

Or give the white outfit, and tell you to dye it the color for you support. Any red or pink dye for Astrid, any blue dye for Rod and any yellow dye for Bert. The NPC could check the dye color when outfit worn. Vendors have dyes suitable for all 3, and we know SE can check dye colors on gear like this because fashion report does it.

[Ammokkx]

Are you sure?
Let's say for the future reference, S/E put this system into MSQ with 3 different Glamour sets in 3 different route.
Would you still say people is not going to read it?

This case is fundamentally different from that hypothetical. Even if you argue a simple dye-able recolor is a totally different glamour set, the fact remains that a lot of people just went "eeeeeh I wanted red" or, even better, just went straight for the closest quest giver to hand in. This isn't even a dig at how the event is structured like how a lot of the thread seems to focus on, since all I care about was how all three options fucking sucked in the end. But people who know it sucks are the people that cared about the event to begin with, the ones who took it seriously. A lot of people didn't, don't, and won't take it seriously. This is a simple non-important seasonal event, which is a totally different beast from the MSQ.

Even then, the MSQ would be a lot harder to pull off since you'd both be holding up the entire game's population for a single majority vote, and they're also... y'know... mandatory. Of course people are much more likely to read the thing they have to do rather than the thing they can do, especially when the latter was for a simple outfit(that, imo, isn't even that good on either gender in any colour.)

[EpicOverlord85]

Or give the white outfit, and tell you to dye it the color for you support. Any red or pink dye for Astrid, any blue dye for Rod and any yellow dye for Bert. The NPC could check the dye color when outfit worn. Vendors have dyes suitable for all 3, and we know SE can check dye colors on gear like this because fashion report does it.

It wouldn’t be the first time they’ve given out a white outfit, the songbirds outfit comes to mind.

[dinnertime]

What's funny is the Little Ladies event also had a similar voting event. From what I remember the winning Songbird did vary for each server/datacenter. The outfit (from another year) is just a default white like said above.

Really, people shouldn't be surprised that Astrid won. She the most biased pick for having the theme colors and for being the most familiar character out of the three. And this sounds shallow, but If the other two looked more appealing color-wise and appearance-wise, then maybe the outcome would've been different.

[Kikoten]

I chose Astrid because I remember her. Who were Bert and the other guy again? Yeah. Maybe if Valentione's right-hand man were cast into the mix instead of Bert and what's-his-screw, I might've voted for him. Or maybe if we had FAMILIAR CHARACTERS going for that win, I'd have voted for them. I'm not superficial the slightest, I went with what made the most sense to me, story-wise.

Sorry.

EDIT: For the record, if Godbert were one of the candidates, I'd have voted for his glorious ass.

[Liale]

What's funny is the Little Ladies event also had a similar voting event. From what I remember the winning Songbird did vary for each server/datacenter. The outfit (from another year) is just a default white like said above.

Really, people shouldn't be surprised that Astrid won. She the most biased pick for having the theme colors and for being the most familiar character out of the three. And this sounds shallow, but If the other two looked more appealing color-wise and appearance-wise, then maybe the outcome would've been different.

It's not that shallow of a comment, the two men aesthetically were not a contest to Astrid, I didn't vote for Astrid because I voted on the suggestion they gave but the majority of the people in this game prefer cute things.