Valentines day event fail

[Gemina]

If they really wanted to give Astrid some competition, they should have put her up against other sweetheart kids we've come to love. Imagine if it was Astrid, Khloe, and Yozan (one of the Hyur boys from the Doman Adventurer's Guild); it'd be a much different story I think, though probably best of luck beating Khloe regardless of what she pitches.

But yeah I have to agree, and they couldn't have shoehorned Astrid into a victory more than they have. I voted for her as well, but wanted to give them all a fair chance. In the end, despite how foolish and unprofessional it is to seek love from your clientele, it was the least pretentious of the three because at least it stands a chance. Nobody's finding love in a carpenter shop, and self-reflecting in isolation (actually pretty sure that's a damn good way to remain single).

[Klareh]

Ironically, it seems Rodrigault's ended up with the best scenario for the guy:

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

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

[SpeckledBurd]

Ironically, it seems Rodrigault's ended up with the best scenario for the guy:

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

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

...Not really, according to the line "...And where it has carried him is directly into the company of a most fetching young lass. A remarkable success, would you not say? Now come. Lisette will want to hear all about my success, and with all haste." suggests that his plan was actually to set Ywain (who is in in his 30s) up with Sylphie who is like 14.

[OskarXCI]

I think many people just skipped all the dialogue and just went for the colour that they thought looked best, being unaware that you can actually dye the event glamour gear.

[Sated]

Astrid gave hands down the worst advice and it went just as awful as it sounded.

I thought Rodrigault gave the best life advice but his ending was even worse than Astrid's.

I voted for Bert because I will always support Beatin and the carpenter's guild, and I'm disappointed not only that we didn't get bonus Beatin content, but that we also missed out on what ended up being the best outcome anyway.

[Theodric]

Well, that's disappointing. There's a lot about the event in general that is simply outright creepy. To say nothing of the FFXIV Reddit having had people fawning over Astrid since the competition began even to the point of drawing and posting inappropriate fan art of her.

It'd be interesting to have learned the exact results, because it's possible that Bert and Rodrigault received more votes overall than Astrid between them.

[Penthea]

When someone wins on every server on every data center it should be pretty obvious you didn't make the choices very equal.

There are two major mistakes:

1: We know Astrid already from previous events, the other two are complete strangers. It would have leveled the playing field by having all three be strangers or all three be characters we are familiar with.

2: Astrid's colour, red, is the only colour associated with the event. So this resulted in a lot of players choosing her to save the trouble of getting dye. 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).

The second one is especially bad because there is a very clear more appropriate choice when it comes to choosing an outfit that best represents the event. Blue and yellow are not even vaguely associated with it.

The event is a lovely idea but it's obvious some elements of it were not given as much thought as they needed. I hope SE learn from this.

[MsQi]

I think many people just skipped all the dialogue and just went for the colour that they thought looked best, being unaware that you can actually dye the event glamour gear.

They should have used unpopular colors that aren't associated with V-day. Like Green, Orange and Yellow

[Kusanagi7]

i voted astrid only cuz red is 1 of my favourite colors.

[Lexun]

I picked Astrid because color and because I didn't really pay attention to the quest