Seasonal events: Underwhelming?

If your on balmug feel free to join my player hosted halloween event


http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...21%21%21%21%21

WISH I COULD DO THIS ON ALL SEVERS

Seasonal events are one-off content. They should also be available to all players. To get A reward should not take a lot of time investment.

That being said, I really like the way GW2 handled seasonal events. However the rewards were mostly aesthetic, and without an active vanity system, XIV can't do this the same way. I do hope that weapon/armor skin options which are themed are added when Vanity goes live. As long as the basic content can be completed w/o grinding, I don't mind if getting multiple pieces / repeats takes a while.

The players have spoken. Yoshi, bring back the bells.

We all want the bells back.

I would also like point out that SE is continually missing amazing opportunities.

This game has so much more potential than people ever gave it credit. Yet, time and time again I notice how SE is completely missing the mark. With all of the beautiful art and character models, this event could have been so much more than it was.

I understand the devs are crunching to get content ready and out, but I'm already hearing how many of my friends are getting tired and bored of logging into the same thing over and over every day. These seasonal events are more than a flavor of cute outfits in our armoire, but a nice breath of fresh air from the mundane farm for tomes.

This is SE's game to lose, and it is starting to slip out of their hands. Not trying to doomsay, but a simple warning in hopes that SE wakes up and produces content to keep the game in their favor before they lose everything.

What happened to the pumpkin heads? They're like neon orange.

I figured that the seasonal events are lacking because they didn't plan ahead on implementing fancy seasonal things for this year, because they were redesigning the entire game and had more important things to do with the budget. It is disappointing though, I got everything from the Halloween event in thirty minutes. :/

I'm fine with the event being this way. I had fun, had a few laughs, and ran Haukke with a pumpkin on my head (I was tanking, so I didn't go with the ghost outfit, haha)! Seeing the victory poses with my character having a huge glowing pumpkin face was priceless xD

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Originally Posted by LlenCoram

The players have spoken. Yoshi, bring back the bells.

We all want the bells back.

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no give us the giant snow man and /snowball back lol

I don't know, I think plenty of effort was put into the quest, the writing was everything I've come to expect from a Square game. Yeah, maybe another quest would have been nice, but as has been said the team is busy working on patch content and the first expansion so we can't expect grand sweeping storylines just yet. I wasn't underwhelmed at all, honestly, and look forward to repeating it on my main character.

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Originally Posted by Gravehill

How dare people complain about things in a game that requires a subscription fee just to play

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Look over there, out the window! It's the point you've missed flying by!