As Closing Fantasy XIV’s Endwalker growth enters its remaining content material stretch forward of Dawntrail’s highly-anticipated launch this summer season, Yoshi-P and his crew at Sq. Enix have determined to commemorate the legacy of the decade-long arc of Hydaelyn and Zodiark with yet one more extremely spectacular statue for gamers to gather. Furnished as soon as once more by the adept fingers of these at Meister High quality, this bust options none aside from Zodiark and Hydaelyn themselves, the 2 omnipotent entities on the heart of the epic conflict between the esteemed Warrior of Gentle and the Ascians.
As wonderful because it appears to be like within the photographs on Sq. Enix’s product web page, and as surreal because it feels to probably get the final noteworthy piece of merchandise from Endwalker, there appears to be hesitant divide amongst the participant base over it. One would initially assume it’s solely over the very hefty price ticket of $360 USD (earlier than taxes and transport), which makes it the priciest FFXIV statue launched to this point. The hilarious irony of those figures is that they’re usually referred to by the sport’s neighborhood as “costly emotes with a free statue included”, as a result of the Meister High quality statues at all times include an unique in-game emote as a bonus for ordering it.
Arms down in all probability the preferred instance of this, which truly ties in to the reality behind the participant divide over the latest statue, is the “Omega Simulations” emotes that have been obtained when buying the Meister High quality Omega determine again in late 2020. This statue grew to become essentially the most notorious in XIV’s whole lineup (which dates again to Shiva in ‘A Realm Reborn’), for each good and dangerous causes.
First off, the design of the statue itself was a right away hit amongst followers, who clamored to the Sq. Enix merch web site to get their pre-orders. It price $229.00 USD, which was certainly pricey however the high quality of the statue appeared solely convincing and justified for a lot of. Not solely that, nevertheless it got here with a pair of very enticing in-game emotes that enables gamers to have their characters mimic the traditional poses of each Omega-M and F from the enduring Omega raids launched in the course of the Stormblood growth.
Not solely are they flashy and trendy, the emotes are “persistent”, which means that they don’t finish till the participant strikes their character. On high of being a really uncommon kind of emote, this made for some very attractive new afk poses that had folks floating midair far and wide from Limsa Lominsa to Eulmore.
Nevertheless, whereas the emotes have been an absolute hit with the neighborhood and stay a number of the finest ever launched for the sport, the identical surprisingly couldn’t be stated for the statue itself.
Those that have been part of the preliminary pre-order wave for the Omega statue, and have been undoubtedly thrilled when their supply lastly got here, as an alternative discovered themselves saddled with a bodily product that didn’t remotely meet expectations. Whereas different statues reminiscent of Shiva and Ultima the Excessive Seraph all got here out as exquisitely incredible as supposed, Omega fell far, far brief.
As identified by these photos from ‘tuxed0mat’ on Reddit, the point of interest of the issue (as seen above), was the facial design. Whereas the preliminary product photographs from Sq. Enix depicted pristine expressions of the characters, the ultimate end result was one thing borderline horrific, notably from the view of anybody who collects figures like these. Folks took to Reddit and different types of social media to indicate what they’d paid over 200 {dollars} for, which turned out to be crudely drawn at finest, one thing you’d sooner see on a $30-40 greenback determine.
It was a primary if there ever was one, and the avalanche-level backlash prompted an intensive and honest apology from Yoshi-P and Sq. Enix for the extreme lack of correct high quality management over this explicit determine within the XIV collection. To make up for it, they despatched a substitute statue to everybody who had initially positioned an order at no further price. Nevertheless, a lot of those that obtained their replacements nonetheless complained that the unique issues nonetheless weren’t mounted, because the facial design was barely higher, however nonetheless didn’t justify the fee.
This brings us again to the newly launched Zodiark-Hydaelyn statue, which went up for pre-order late final week. Together with its record-breaking $359.99 price ticket, it consists of yet one more unique in-game emote referred to as ‘Sundering’ (i.e. – Ballroom Etiquette – Apocalyptic Charades).
This enables your character to wield the sword brandished by Hydaelyn herself in an extremely flashy present of, nicely, sundering power, earlier than floating again down and hovering with the sword in hand. In reality, it’s truly fairly just like the Omega emotes of yore. Nevertheless, in a really unhappy flip of occasions, this emote is surprisingly not a “persistent” one, as your character merely drops again to the bottom afterward. What the heck, Yoshi-P??
Not solely that, this explicit emote is NOT account-wide for some cause, which understandably has folks completely baffled. That may be a first for this sort of product, and we do hope it doesn’t set a precedent going ahead with figures launched for Dawntrail.
Past that, nonetheless, the principle supply of hesitation expressed amongst gamers on Reddit comes from the sticker shock blended with the proverbial burn attributable to the Omega statue disaster. With a greater than $100 improve in value, some individuals are wringing their fingers on whether or not to drag the set off this time. The statue itself is a virtually foot-tall assertion piece, there’s little doubt about that.
There’s apparently nonetheless loads of curiosity regardless, because the statue has truly since offered out on Sq. Enix’s US website. As of this writing, it’s nonetheless out there for pre-order for those in the UK.
The statue is because of ship for everybody slightly below a pair months from now in March, so we’ll see at that time if the fears are justified, or if opening up the pockets that vast is nicely price it.
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