Quote Originally Posted by Sated View Post
I think a lot of us assumed this going in, it's just surprising that SE didn't.
It's an interesting experiment but the only attempt they made at controlling it was hardly an attempt.

I'd like to see them try it again but with a quest that's either designed to actually reflect participants' opinions (by not being linked to a choice between rewards, or even something that is "easier" to select over other things), or by just let us do the quest we signed up for and have the popular vote only affect the decorations, not the actual gameplay - especially for something like this where all cases were soft failures. At the end he could have been like "well, we tried a lot of things today but none of this seems to be working out..." and have a shared and more satisfying wrap-up.
I agree, honestly i didnt find the event interesting enough while reading about it once they announced it[ i started last year late february so i missed the event back then, so i dont know if im missing anything here from the discussion] so i went in just to get the red outfit and then log out and study for exams, and reading the thread here with ppl discussing the dialogues of each NPC and what they said it seems they kinda missed the mark. People posted some great suggestions and i hope they take them in consideration next year and for any form of event similar to this one~ FFXIV is story driven and events seem to add more to the characters and areas around so i find it sad i ended up skipping dialogues etc just cause i knew which outfit i wanted[tho it was entirely my choise]