Valentines day event fail

[Barraind]

The colours should not have been red, yellow and blue. It should have been red, pink and purple or another shade of pink/red (rolanberry red for example).

Red, Pink, White.

[Ariane]

Red, Pink, White.

If that's pure white, it auto wins. That's about 1.5 million gil worth of dyes. You would have to be stupid to pass up on an outfit to default to pure white and go for pink or red (which is only worth a few hundred to thousands gil worth of dye). Even its just snow white it still has an advantage. Its similar to dalamud red. Snow white is one of the only two white dyes and comes from crafting or from Ixali maxed rep. The only group of 3 dyes that are equal would be all from normal vendors.

[SturmChurro]

My friend actually did choose red for... red. I chose red for... hmm.. I liked Astrid. Yellow's idea was kind of dumb, what was it like going out and chopping down trees or something? Blue's if I remember right was going and meditating or something?

[Ariane]

All 3 endings are played as jokes. Lisette pretends each was a success even while Ywain doesn't get what he wants. That was never going to matter. Just look at Eureka's choice.

Players picked the thing that actually mattered to them. Dalamud red dye is more expensive than Othard blue and millioncorn yellow dye on the marketboard. Red dyes are mostly pinks. Dalamud red is the only real red color. There's plenty of choices of good looking blue and yellows including ones on the vendor. If you want red, you are just about forced into dalamud red. It is hardly a surprise to me Dalamud red won.

[Klareh]

All 3 endings are played as jokes. Lisette pretends each was a success even while Ywain doesn't get what he wants. That was never going to matter. Just look at Eureka's choice.

Players picked the thing that actually mattered to them. Dalamud red dye is more expensive than Othard blue and millioncorn yellow dye on the marketboard. Red dyes are mostly pinks. Dalamud red is the only real red color. There's plenty of choices of good looking blue and yellows including ones on the vendor. If you want red, you are just about forced into dalamud red. It is hardly a surprise to me Dalamud red won.

Dalamund Red Dye is a level 30 recipe with paltry materials. That speaks of their laziness levels to the extreme. Though it seems many could care less about story.

[Sated]

Dalamud red dye is more expensive than Othard blue and millioncorn yellow dye on the marketboard.

I did notice that they picked 3 dyes which were craftable, making the dye situation more fair than it would have been otherwise, but there really shouldn't have been a dye situation in the first place.

There's really no perfectly fair way to do it though, there'll always be some bias involved. Even if Lisette just listed the three options herself without us knowing who suggested which while the three of them stood behind her, the top option would probably get more votes even if they were just listed "1" "2" and "3". Unless maybe the order was randomized for each player.

It'd be interesting to see how close to unbaised they could get, and the above is the best I can think of, but it's so much extra work just to get around the inconvenience of dealing with players who aren't interested in quests, or just don't read.

[Infindox]

I think honestly the reason why I'm upset about the results is fourfold

1. People don't actually care and just wanted the red suit because most are too lazy to go and get red dye, or they don't read the quest text anyway.
2. Astrid was already a known character + a girl so all but gureenteed.
3. Looking at the other two quest conclusions, they all fail but at least the other two are "funny". Bert's ends up with him actually getting a new hobby (by mistake!) and blue guy has him being helped with hygiene. This one has him being essicentally a slave in an abusive relationship....
4. The other two didn't win anywhere else, which seeing them would have been a perfect use of World Visit or alts, but nah.

[Tsumdere]

I'm really disappointed, because Astrid's advice was the absolute worst and it ended predictably bad. Marcette is an awful woman and doesn't treat anyone as a human... poor Ywain. It wasn't funny at all. I would have much rather see him find friendship with Beatin or Sylvie.

[Slirith]

I only voted for Astrid since she was closest after I read the quest. I don't bother reading text of events I don't like.

[Gula]

I picked blue because I'm not a sucker for child and/or female characters and Lyse was enough walking nepotism for me to stomach. Yellow felt like it would lead to something boring and I found blue's surgical approach refreshing and interesting.

But, we all knew who would win, and I wonder if the people writing the others scenarios thought to themselves "Why am I doing this again?"