FFXIV 10th Anniversary Special Site

[Carin-Eri]

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/10th_...KI8AZOJ5rQXjio


Great to see a 'Roadmap' of what is upcoming!

[TheDecay]

50% Live Letter Propaganda
25% Seasonal Events with the same rewards from previous years.
25% Overpriced Merchandise

*yawn*

...Oh wait, there's more?

Drum rolls please,

*drum roll*

$300 Bahamut statue to be announced during the 14-hour broadcast. Please look forward to it.

[Edelgarde]

50% Live Letter Propaganda
25% Seasonal Events with the same rewards from previous years.
25% Overpriced Merchandise

*yawn*

...Oh wait, there's more?

Drum rolls please,

*drum roll*

$300 Bahamut statue to be announced during the 14-hour broadcast. Please look forward to it.

I really hate to agree to this. But this is probably true.

[LianaThorne]

Was waiting for this thread to pop up.

I'm honestly disappointed in the amount of in-game stuff happening for the anniversary. Like, go ahead and sell merch and have livestreams and all of that but like....I was expecting more to be given back to the actual community in the game....for free. LOL. Like, am I off base for thinking that?

I'm really hoping that they do something special with the Moogle event and the Rising, otherwise this is gonna put a bad taste in my mouth in terms of using something special like this as purely a means to funnel more money out of people and not a way to give back to the community that's giving them the success they are now.

[VelKallor]

...and yet, for all these ill mannered and quite frankly, spiteful sneers by our usual suspects, one need not go far to remember that the fanfest tickets were SOLD OUT in less than what was it...ten minutes?

Every single one of them.

For all of the gripes, whines, petulant continual complaints ( "propaganda" - get real ), it would seem that everyone else is looking forward to all of it. Including me.

So theres merch. So? So what?

Name me big events that DIDNT have merch, every single large event I have ever been to had memorabilia for sale. Name me ONE big star that DIDNT have merch on sale at their concerts.

I even still have a program and poster for the Heaven and Hell tour in Sydney. God I loved Dio, that man had a soaring voice. Have merch from David Bowie Serious Moonlight tour.

This is..news to anyone??

Multinational tournaments...ooh yes I would love to see OCE kick some serious tail. All in all, its going to be a kickass anniversary. Cant wait.

The Rising....will be a memorable day. Ten years of continuing success..if I had any regrets, its that i wasnt here earlier.

[LianaThorne]

...and yet, for all these ill mannered and quite frankly, spiteful sneers by our usual suspects, one need not go far to remember that the fanfest tickets were SOLD OUT in less than what was it...ten minutes?

Every single one of them.

For all of the gripes, whines, petulant continual complaints ( "propaganda" - get real ), it would seem that everyone else is looking forward to all of it. Including me.

So theres merch. So? So what?

Name me big events that DIDNT have merch, every single large event I have ever been to had memorabilia for sale. Name me ONE big star that DIDNT have merch on sale at their concerts.

I even still have a program and poster for the Heaven and Hell tour in Sydney. God I loved Dio, that man had a soaring voice. Have merch from David Bowie Serious Moonlight tour.

This is..news to anyone??

Multinational tournaments...ooh yes I would love to see OCE kick some serious tail.

All in all, its going to be a kickass anniversary. Cant wait.

I'm not necessarily mad at selling merch. Don't get me wrong, I get that it's a smart move business wise to do it in tandem with the anniversary. My issue comes where it feels like more resources are being put towards that instead of actually providing something special for the community in the game itself. If it was more of an even split where there were tons of merch options available irl and also like...tons of events going on in game and free rewards sent out (maybe even a new collab in game), I'd be way more excited than I am. As I said, I'm holding onto a shred of hope that they'll do something special with Moogle and Rising but I can't help but feel like "in-game" should be getting as good of a treatment as irl will be.

[Stormpeaks]

50% Live Letter Propaganda
25% Seasonal Events with the same rewards from previous years.
25% Overpriced Merchandise

*yawn*

...Oh wait, there's more?

Drum rolls please,

*drum roll*

$300 Bahamut statue to be announced during the 14-hour broadcast. Please look forward to it.

Obviously they arent getting more money, they have to pay all those devs working on FF16's PC port now since they are done with the PS5 version

Who knows, maybe once that's done in 2 years they will start working on FFXIV again, woohoo ! But please dont forget to buy mog station mounts and glams !

[Theodric]

I'm not a fan of there being yet another hairstyle contest. Many posters have consistently provided feedback in regards to the sort of hairstyles that they'd like to see added to the game along with visual references.

I'd be surprised if it doesn't result in yet another disproportionate focus on feminine and androgynous hairstyles at the cost of those of us who want masculine hairstyles designed with male characters in mind first and foremost.

A lot of people aren't artists in the first place, either so they can't really contribute even if they wanted to.

To say nothing of the fact that Highlander men are still lacking in authentic eyebrows. It's kind of wild how much better the male character design is in FFXVI. Hopefully some of the artists/character designers from that game are brought over to FFXIV in the future.

[VelKallor]

Liana: no offence but dont be silly.

Marketing would be handling those..thats their job after all. That and their PR / publicity teams.

My issue comes where it feels like more resources are being put towards that instead of actually providing something special for the community in the game itself.

We may do indeed, what we have here is a roadmap and little else. You know how Yoshi LOVES surprises, he never lets on half of what he has planned. We literally dont know. To be bluntly honest, lets not go assuming the worst this soon? We already play host to a few trolls who are perfectly suited to the role of Mr and Mrs Misery Guts.

The glass isnt half empty, or full, because we dont know whats in it yet.

Have a little faith.

[LianaThorne]

Liana: no offence but dont be silly.

Marketing would be handling those..thats their job after all. That and their PR / publicity teams.



We may do indeed, what we have here is a roadmap and little else. You know how Yoshi LOVES surprises, he never lets on half of what he has planned. We literally dont know. To be bluntly honest, lets not go assuming the worst this soon? We already play host to a few trolls who are perfectly suited to the role of Mr and Mrs Misery Guts.

The glass isnt half empty, or full, because we dont know whats in it yet.

Have a little faith.

As I said, I'm holding out to see what they do with Moogle and Rising. That's all I can say. Are my hopes high? No, and I think it's valid considering how they've done their events for the past three years of me being here. But I'll wait and see.