Valentines day event fail

[EpicOverlord85]

I’m legitimately surprised this thread is still active.

[Kytrin]

While non of the plans were that detailed, Astrids missed one very important detail to me: The distinction between "Hey, is there something you've met through your work that you could imagine spending more time with?" and "Okay, there must be women somewhere in your work envoriment, lets hit on some!"

I admit that I honestly interpreted her plan the first way when I did the quest on my main and voted for her. It didn't even occur to me that she was referring to flirting randomly with women he works with. I totally thought there was a "Let's try spending more time with your clients socially, because they already know you, like you, and know you're awkward and serious af, and see if they can introduce you to new people!" thing going on.

Man was I disappointed in how that played out. If I'd realized, I would've voted for the elf on both my main and my alt lol!

[Yencat]

At least they did a blog post so we could see the decorations in the other colours as well

Edit: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/pr/blog/002945.html

[WhiteArchmage]

At least they did a blog post so we could see the decorations in the other colours as well

Edit: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/pr/blog/002945.html

Gotta say, after the dev blog post, Rodrigault's plan looks BETTER (focusing on self-care), while Bert's is pretty funny.

[Alleo]

At least they did a blog post so we could see the decorations in the other colours as well

Edit: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/pr/blog/002945.html

True and I love the blue one

Also it makes it quite clear that Slyphy was not intended to be the partner but that she burst into the conversation and told him that he needs to take care of himself more.

[Liale]

Rodrigault's blue decorations are so much classier than Astrid's.

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

I voted for Bert, but I think the outfit looks better in blue (since I'm using mine as a BLU glamour) and his decorations gel with the stage a lot better.

But I guess now we have official confirmation that Astrid won on every server.

I finally did the second quest today. It's even worse than I thought.
Not only he flirts with a married woman, but he knows perfectly well being married! This paints his character in a really bad light.

I'd like to address that assumption. Astrid's advice was to look for romance among his clients and she encourages him to head to the Leatherworker's Guild since he has a shipment to deliver there.

When Geva asks why he's arrived, Ywain says that he's following Astrid's advice and looking for love. Geva is the one who assumes he's talking about romancing her, which is the result of Ywain being incredibly vague with his wording. He could very well have meant to ask "Do you know any singles I could hook up with?", especially since Geva already stated that he knows she's married with children, but he didn't convey that very well. And he doesn't have another line until after Marcette comes in, so there's not any time to correct himself.

[kujoestars]

I honestly thought Astrid had the most solid (and ironically logical) argument, but I utterly despise how things went and how poor Ywain now has to deal with MARCETTE of all people! Literally no one deserves Marcette because she is an abusive a-hole as anyone who’s had to do her stupid quests can tell you. Makes me really wish I picked Rodrigault or at least that he’d won somewhere because he was a close tie for me and I only opted for Astrid because the spiritual route hit and miss for people. Ugh, I really need to know the outcomes for him and Bert now and hope Squeenix will at least give us the mercy to see them given how Astrid universally won, ugh.

I was hoping someone would bail him out at least and we get to see him try at least a couple other places. This event is a disappointment. Of course, Bert and Rod’s version could be equally fail but we’ll never know.

EDIT: I only just saw the link to the blog and yeah, those two’s advice don’t seem to go overly well either. Bert’s went exactly as disastrously as I thought it wood (*BADUMTSH!*) though Rod’s, while also kinda sucky, seems to the least bad outcome. I would take Sylphie over fucking Marcette any day. >.>;

Basically: Poor Ywain seems doomed from the start.

[Vidu]

I honestly thought Astrid had the most solid (and ironically logical) argument, but I utterly despise how things went and how poor Ywain now has to deal with MARCETTE of all people! Literally no one deserves Marcette because she is an abusive a-hole as anyone who’s had to do her stupid quests can tell you. Makes me really wish I picked Rodrigault or at least that he’d won somewhere because he was a close tie for me and I only opted for Astrid because the spiritual route hit and miss for people. Ugh, I really need to know the outcomes for him and Bert now and hope Squeenix will at least give us the mercy to see them given how Astrid universally won, ugh.

This vote was totally rigged.

https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/R...27s_Revelation

https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Bert%27s_Big_Idea

Here you go - you can at least read what happens with the other two. Spoiler: He doesnt find the love of his life either but he also doesnt get "forced" to hit on a married woman and ends up in an abusive work-relationship (...although... one could argue that for Berts outcome...)

[kujoestars]

https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/R...27s_Revelation

https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Bert%27s_Big_Idea

Here you go - you can at least read what happens with the other two. Spoiler: He doesnt find the love of his life either but he also doesnt get "forced" to hit on a married woman and ends up in an abusive work-relationship (...although... one could argue that for Berts outcome...)

Edited too slow, haha. Though I will point out that Ywain wasn’t trying to hit on Geva so much as gave her terrible wording out of nerves that he wants to know if she knows anyone. Bert’s option was epic fail exactly as I expected. Rodrigault.....I’d say it’s the least sucky out of the three but still bleh.

As I said in my edited comment, Ywain seems doomed no matter what. But *angry rants about Marcette*

We’ll probably never know how that goes. Part of me hopes maybe he can finally tame that abusive shrew (haha, ironic given what Taming of the Shrew is about) or at least bail and find someone else on his own.