As Closing Fantasy XIV’s Endwalker growth enters its closing content material stretch forward of Dawntrail’s highly-anticipated launch this summer time, Yoshi-P and his staff at Sq. Enix have determined to commemorate the legacy of the decade-long arc of Hydaelyn and Zodiark with one more extremely spectacular statue for gamers to gather. Furnished as soon as once more by the adept palms of these at Meister High quality, this bust options none aside from Zodiark and Hydaelyn themselves, the 2 omnipotent entities on the middle of the epic conflict between the esteemed Warrior of Gentle and the Ascians.
As superb because it appears to be like within the photographs on Sq. Enix’s product web page, and as surreal because it feels to doubtlessly 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 thus far. The hilarious irony of those figures is that they’re usually referred to by the sport’s group 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.
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Arms down most likely the preferred instance of this, which really ties in to the reality behind the participant divide over the most recent statue, is the “Omega Simulations” emotes that had been obtained when buying the Meister High quality Omega determine again in late 2020. This statue grew to become probably 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 value $229.00 USD, which was certainly expensive however the high quality of the statue appeared solely convincing and justified for a lot of. Not solely that, but it surely got here with a pair of very engaging in-game emotes that permits gamers to have their characters mimic the basic poses of each Omega-M and F from the long-lasting Omega raids launched throughout 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 prime of being a really uncommon kind of emote, this made for some very attractive new afk poses that had folks floating midair in all places from Limsa Lominsa to Eulmore.
Nonetheless, whereas the emotes had been an absolute hit with the group and stay among the finest ever launched for the sport, the identical surprisingly couldn’t be mentioned for the statue itself.
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Those that had been part of the preliminary pre-order wave for the Omega statue, and had been undoubtedly thrilled when their supply lastly got here, as a substitute discovered themselves saddled with a bodily product that didn’t remotely meet expectations. Whereas different statues equivalent to Shiva and Ultima the Excessive Seraph all got here out as exquisitely improbable as meant, 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 outcome 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 point out what they’d paid over 2 hundred {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 specific determine within the XIV sequence. To make up for it, they despatched a alternative statue to everybody who had initially positioned an order at no additional value. Nonetheless, lots of those that acquired 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 price.
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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 one more unique in-game emote known as ‘Sundering’ (i.e. – Ballroom Etiquette – Apocalyptic Charades).
This permits your character to wield the sword brandished by Hydaelyn herself in an extremely flashy present of, effectively, sundering power, earlier than floating again down and hovering with the sword in hand. In reality, it’s really fairly much like the Omega emotes of yore. Nonetheless, in a really unhappy flip of occasions, this emote is unusually not a “persistent” one, as your character merely drops again to the bottom afterward. What the heck, Yoshi-P??
Not solely that, this specific emote is NOT account-wide for some cause, which understandably has folks completely baffled. That could be a first for any such product, and we do hope it doesn’t set a precedent going ahead with figures launched for Dawntrail.
Past that, nevertheless, the primary supply of hesitation expressed amongst gamers on Reddit comes from the sticker shock combined with the proverbial burn brought on by the Omega statue disaster. With a greater than $100 enhance in worth, some persons are wringing their palms on whether or not to drag the set off this time. The statue itself is an almost foot-tall assertion piece, there’s little doubt about that.
There’s apparently nonetheless loads of curiosity regardless, because the statue has really since offered out on Sq. Enix’s US website. As of this writing, it’s nonetheless obtainable for pre-order for those in the UK.
The statue is because of ship for everybody just 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 large is effectively value it.