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Over an offline event for Square Enix’s MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, social media comparisons arose between the official food trucks that paid vendor fees and a yakiniku (grilled meat) restaurant believed to have set up nearby to cash in without paying — sparking discussion on the forum as well. Complaints about how tickets are sold for the Fan Festival resurfaced too, with some comparing the treatment to Square Enix’s other MMORPG, Dragon Quest X. Opinions split between those suspicious of whether the timing was really a coincidence, and those who felt it’s only natural for the area around an event to get lively when people gather.
What people said
[PS5 Bad News] Square Enix's FF14 money-grab event is turning into quite the thing — is a Consumer Affairs Agency crossover coming?
https://krsw.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/ghard/1791600398/
Is there some event out there where the surrounding area is told not to get excited on its own and to hold back…?
The shops that paid to be official vendors already have a clear edge from the official brand and prime location… don't they?
Is it really just a coincidence that the official account brought up food only 70 minutes after Tontsu's post (a well-known account that tracks FF14 drama/news)?
Isn't that autograph board for "Hikasen" (FF14 players' nickname for the Warrior of Light) just from some regular fan, not an official thing?
3,500 yen
Guess they cut the vendor fee and put the savings into more meat lol
With the "food truck tax" eating into it, nobody can match the quality in Re: #25 lol
That's because it's a ghost town — "Chinpo Village" (a mocking nickname for the DQX community) never blows up no matter what happens
Please, just let it disappear
Unlike Chinpo Village, FF14 actually has enough people around to cause a blow-up
Yeah, they do — there was a time people were celebrating like "our controversy tweet hit 40,000 views! FF14's so popular lol"
Come on, nobody's actually dumb enough to think that lol
Re: #16
This one's from back in the A Realm Reborn days
Delete it, delete it, delete it, delete it
You can astroturf all you want, but look at this:
Amazon PC Game Ranking
DQ10 >> FF14
PS Store Download Ranking
DQ10 >> FF14
Convenience tool sales
DQ10 >> FF14
No matter how much you astroturf, Google Trends doesn't lie
Yeah — there's no single-day ticket, only a bundled two-day pass; they suddenly dropped reserved seating; and if you cancel, you get refunded in FF14's own in-game currency instead of cash. It's a Fan Festival so under-attended it's desperately scrambling for cash.
If they were selling something themed around FF, sure, that'd be a problem.
But in reality it was just the shop's own 20th-anniversary item
Oh sure, anything inconvenient is always "the haters did it" lol
How much is this game getting pushed around by haters, seriously lol
That's rock bottom for a company
Background and Key Points of This Topic
FF14’s Fan Festival has long drawn complaints over its operating policies — no single-day tickets (only two-day bundled passes), the removal of reserved seating, and cancellations refunded in in-game currency rather than cash. This time those grievances were compounded by social-media comparisons between the prices at a yakiniku restaurant operating near the venue and those of the official food truck vendors, fueling criticism that the restaurant was “cashing in without paying the vendor fee.” The thread also saw renewed comparisons of popularity with Square Enix’s other MMORPG, Dragon Quest X — worth noting that criticism of the controversy itself and the fan bases’ long-standing rivalry were unfolding side by side. Posts claiming the original critic went silent after receiving a legal disclosure request from a certain organization remain unverified speculation and are not covered in this article.
※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry (Geha)) thread “[PS5 Bad News] Square Enix’s FF14 Offline Event Controversy Continues — Next, a Yakiniku Restaurant Pours Oil on the Fire“.
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