Anime NYC was really fun!! Elex’s booth was not hard to find, although the Food Fantasy side was facing me when I came in, and Love Nikki was on the other side. Please forgive my abysmal photo taking skills lol I tried to at least get the booth, and I got a decent one of Giant Momo up there. I meant to take pictures of the prizes and things they have, but forgot in all the chaos.
There are a few free things you can pick up at the booth. There are little like magnet token things? and there are “3D” little standing paper doll type things of suits from the game that you can get two of for free. You can get four of them for free if you’ve signed up previously that you will be there on the google form they posted a while back on the official Facebook page! The little 3D figures are mostly suits that we have on our server, but two that we do not have yet. One from the Blood Moon hell event, and the other from 4 Gods.
They have a few Momo plushies, and a couple dresses, and possibly other things I missed because I’m oblivious, but these you have to win by playing their claw machine. Apparently only winning the red ball in the game will let you win Momo or the dresses. You get an extra chance to play the claw machine if you show someone at the booth your screenshot from voting for LN in the google poll thing, I believe.
Ok, so now to my interactions with them lol. Everyone was really nice and great! The Facebook side of things does not seem to have coordinated very well with the Actually Doing Stuff IRL side of things though. I believe Facebook said that if you signed up to show up at their booth they would have a free Momo plushie among the other gifts, but this did not make its way to reality lol. I’m kind of assuming they had too many people interested to do the free Momo plushie thing? I don’t know, pure speculation. Also I could be remembering wrong haha...
Anyway, due to my social anxiety, and just anxiety in general, I did not end up asking or saying any of the things I meant to say. One of them also directly asked me at one point if I had any feedback or constructive criticism for the game or anything like that, and my mind just decided to completely forget everything it ever knew, so that was cool. I WISH I had at least asked them to pleassssee stop changing everyone name every five minutes!! and asked when Dreamweaver is coming.
However, these are just volunteers, so they do not have like a ton of information about future stuff. Or if they do, I’m sure they’re probably not supposed to give it out freely. I assume, had I asked about Dreamweaver, or anything coming in the future, someone would have told me that they’re working on it, which I believe is what they said when someone asked them about it at the California con. Most of the people I talked to also did not even recognize the 3D figure suits that aren’t on our server yet, which led me to believe they don’t have much knowledge of other servers/what is to come for us at all. (Which is fine, that’s not their job lol just so we’re clear)
I had a great chat with some of them about how long I’ve been playing and all that, and I took a picture with Giant Momo whom I must admit terrifies me a little lmao...
To anyone else who may be going: definitely give them your feedback, they seem like they really do want to hear it! But please, PLEASE, be kind and polite about it. These are volunteers, not corporate execs or whatever. They aren’t the ones who make the decisions, they’re just there to help and have fun and pass on what they’re told. Anyway, that said, have fun!! And good luck with the claw machine if you play it!
Phew, that got real long, sorry y’all! Hope everyone is having/had a good day, I’m exhausted I’m going to bed now.