Seasonal Event Love

This thread is for the discussion of seasonal/holiday events in FFXIV and other MMOs. This thread is not a discussion about how well the dev team is using their time in relation to the events or other content.

What kind of holiday/seasonal events do you want to see in FFXIV and what content would you deem acceptable for them? Also what are your thoughts on past events and how could they be improved? What seasonal/holiday events from any MMO were your favorite?

Personally I was okay with some of the "Bell" events we had though I know they can do much better in the years to come. Getting a gear set for the Winter event was pretty nice and in contrast getting just a few food items from the Valentine's Day event was kind of lame.

I see the events coming around this year simply as placeholders so we know what events to expect each year. I certainly hope that the team will come up with some great ideas for some spectacular events in the coming years.

I would love to see a halloween event, that would allow us to dress in Costumes from other Final Fantasy games. Like Kain's dragoon outfit, or Warrior of light's.

I like them, i love when you get unique gear/casual clothing.

Mini games would be fun!
I would much appreciate life events, there should be festivals where people dress up, gather, socialize and maybe take part in some events held by GMs even if its something as simple as making a raze around Uldah
Developer could sometimes hold a short speech or something….
Concerts would be fun!
I would love to have a Opera house that would play all sorts of tracks from all the FF titles.

EDIT:
i did add the ideas in a new thread in the gameplay forum so it does not get lost.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-social-events.

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Originally Posted by Randis

I like them, i love when you get unique gear/casual clothing.

Mini games would be fun!
I would much appreciate life events, there should be festivals where people dress up, gather, socialize and maybe take part in some events held by GMs even if its something as simple as making a raze around Uldah
Developer could sometimes hold a short speech or something….
Concerts would be fun!
I would love to have a Opera house that would play all sorts of tracks from all the FF titles.

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Epic ideas particularly your last one. I remember when I played on private RO servers developers would have events like that. I really enjoyed then, they'd spawn monsters to fight and it was chaos.

I'd like the dress up. But it'd have to be later on, because having Kain in this game would make me depressed that there aren't moves in the game as cool as the ones he does.

Yeah make it a one-piece body gear part like torso.

Love the concert idea. Like once a year the Music director, I forgot how to spell his name so I won't shame him with my pitiful attempt, could make an orchestrated theme for this game's music for 1 time a year.

One of my favorite events from another game was part of the Winter Event in Guild Wars. They had a special PvP field set up for snowball fights which you got some kind of token from for participating. You could then trade these for event gear which interesting.

the only festival I like is Christmas

I think they should keep advancing the "Year of Animal Armor" started this year with the Usagi Kabuto.

Each year on the New Years they release an Armor helm based off the animal for that year (Rabbit for 2011) Then every other month they release Body, Hand, Leg and Feet, to accompany the armor. This way the Celebration for that year lasts the whole year. They can blend it in with another ceremony or event or try and keep it separate. But I think it would be an interesting thing. Especially if at Newyears the next year you have a chance to get the items you are missing from last years event.

One thing that throws me off about in-game events is that in real world time, the event goes on for maybe fourteen dayys.

In-game time, Eorzeans celebrate the event for an entire in-game year. I don't really know what moon or day these holidays are really supposed to be happening on.

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Originally Posted by Arcell

One of my favorite events from another game was part of the Winter Event in Guild Wars. They had a special PvP field set up for snowball fights which you got some kind of token from for participating. You could then trade these for event gear which interesting.

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Snowball fights in GW2 should be epic.

But on the subject of FFXIV.. There should be more fireworks! Either for New Years or for a "Summer Festival", similar to FFXI.