Bring back login events

All this talk of Hildibrand has made me remember something that used to occasionally occur in the later stages of Version 1:

Login 'events'

Occasionally, after you had passed a certain milestone in the main storyline or sidequests when you logged in again after loggin out at an inn room you would have a chance of having an 'event' occur when you logged in.

This could be the unpleasant dream of Nael Van Darnus slaughtering all the good guy NPCs then killing you or it could be waking up to the Gentleman Inspector's shining smile.

These were impressive because they were so unexpected. There was no mention of them in patch notes, no ingame notification that you had unlocked anything. You would just be logging in as normal, ready to farm Garuda some more then bam! Dream Sequence out of the blue.

I think it was a really nice touch and would like to see them come back.

I never played 1.0 but this sounds awesome :)

And this would coincide with this. When I log in on the 17th, I expect this to be the first thing I see:
http://i783.photobucket.com/albums/y...ildibrand2.jpg

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Originally Posted by Eekiki

And this would coincide with this. When I log in on the 17th, I expect this to be the first thing I see:
http://i783.photobucket.com/albums/y...ildibrand2.jpg

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/shudder....

You know what would be really awesome?

If when you log in, you can randomly get queued into a special Duty Finder group. You and seven other completely random people just wake up in a nightmare together and have to beat Diabolos. Not as a serious event of course, more like what Odin and Behemoth are now (purely for vanity) and a "proper" Diabolos fight can come later like how we're meant to get a proper Odin fight at some point.

Would be all the more epic if they don't even mention it at all and people just stumble across the fight at random. Even though I generally hate the Duty Finder, I'd actually find being thrown into something like this, purely at random, to be a lot of fun. They'd have to give it some tangible rewards though, otherwise people will just leave... Guess they could always just make it soloable...

They could even reuse the same system for events, like Halloween. Imaging doing the regular Halloween quest, logging out in your Inn, then logging on the next day and you're trapped in a Dynamis like version of Eorzea until you finish the real Halloween event...

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Originally Posted by Sotek

You know what would be really awesome?

If when you log in, you can randomly get queued into a special Duty Finder group. You and seven other completely random people just wake up in a nightmare together and have to beat Diabolos. Not as a serious event of course, more like what Odin and Behemoth are now (purely for vanity) and a "proper" Diabolos fight can come later like how we're meant to get a proper Odin fight at some point.

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I love this idea. It deserves its own thread.

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Originally Posted by Sotek

You know what would be really awesome?

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I love the idea, I really do. But it'd have to be optional. Make it a toggleable option. Right now I log in 10 min before raid due to work. Oh wait hang on guys I gotta fight Diabolos.

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Originally Posted by LobsterBisque

I love the idea, I really do. But it'd have to be optional. Make it a toggleable option. Right now I log in 10 min before raid due to work. Oh wait hang on guys I gotta fight Diabolos.

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You are not living the fantasy enough! ^_^

Log in to find yourself fighting Diablos in just moogle undies with the story npcs pointing and laughing at you! O_O

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Originally Posted by Goufunaki

Log in to find yourself fighting Diablos in just moogle undies with the story npcs pointing and laughing at you! O_O

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Haha! That's right, I get naked before I go to sleep (DON'T LOOK UP MY CHARACTER ON THE LODESTONE RIGHT NOW!)

This idea keeps getting better and better.

would be much better if they ninja added things like this. Not much of a surprise if its in the patch notes

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Originally Posted by Eekiki

DON'T LOOK UP MY CHARACTER ON THE LODESTONE RIGHT NOW!

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Great ...now I need a wash.

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Originally Posted by Grembo

Great ...now I need a wash.

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I tried to warn you.

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Originally Posted by Sotek

You know what would be really awesome?

If when you log in, you can randomly get queued into a special Duty Finder group. You and seven other completely random people just wake up in a nightmare together and have to beat Diabolos. Not as a serious event of course, more like what Odin and Behemoth are now (purely for vanity) and a "proper" Diabolos fight can come later like how we're meant to get a proper Odin fight at some point.

Would be all the more epic if they don't even mention it at all and people just stumble across the fight at random. Even though I generally hate the Duty Finder, I'd actually find being thrown into something like this, purely at random, to be a lot of fun. They'd have to give it some tangible rewards though, otherwise people will just leave... Guess they could always just make it soloable...

They could even reuse the same system for events, like Halloween. Imaging doing the regular Halloween quest, logging out in your Inn, then logging on the next day and you're trapped in a Dynamis like version of Eorzea until you finish the real Halloween event...

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Only problem with this is that it removes the element of choice. Trapping someone in something until X is achieved or forcing them to load into an instance they maybe didn't want to do.

I don't see this happening ever.

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Originally Posted by Gurpsmeister

Only problem with this is that it removes the element of choice. Trapping someone in something until X is achieved or forcing them to load into an instance they maybe didn't want to do.

I don't see this happening ever.

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What would be nice is if they gave you something worth while for doing it like Furniture for your house, or other awesome vanity items that you can only get when you do these events. Like waking up to mr. fancypants in your face when it happens you'd get a portrait of his big shining smiling face lol. Like Sotek posted it wouldn't be anything serious so there would no need to drop gear. If they wanted to drop gear they could drop level 1 vanity gear maybe make some sets that depict the gear from earlier popular version of FF series.

As others have stated they could make it so you can opt out of it.

I really enjoyed logging into event cutscenes, and also the dream sequences. I hope that is a feature that returns.

Yeah, I miss this! Even if it's just the little notice in chat to tell us what we were dreaming about if we slept in an inn, I would be very happy. I hope this happens! :)

This was a really nice touch to the game, would love to see a come back on this one.

Also Love the Dream Instance Idea, probably not with other people but maybe just a random nonsense battle (Something like 6 tiny titans trying to kill you with a fluffy cloud Arena where you have to build up a LB move which traps them into bubbles and they all float away) i think i need my head examined....

I do miss little things like this, I think it would encourage people to use the inn more as well.

Nightmare video if anyone was curious.

http://youtu.be/ft8fqSDVnuQ

What if our character's happened to "dream" themselves into other major happenings in the Final Fantasy Universe? This could include any of the major storyline points in FFI-FFXIII, helping out for the battle, and receiving some "memento" of sorts that appears in your inventory after completing the event? It could also be completely optional. You log in and it first shows your character, asleep in it's bed and say "It seems that you are having a dream. Enter the dream realm?" and clicking "Yes" would take you to whatever world and storyline event is taking place in your mind! :D

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Originally Posted by Neo_Genesis

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That would be nice.

I, however, would be interested in them having our log in dreams about the events of 1.0 so new players of the game can get up to speed about what happened before 2.0 through personal experience with newly remastered 1.0 cutscenes.

or

have out character have dreams of the events during the 5 year gap between 1.0 and 2.0 so we learn more about what happened in that 5 year time skip.

or

have login events serve as a Mini- origin story providing dream cutscenes that show how our character ended up where they began in the intro of the main storyline with legacy story covering what the Legacy players did to end up where they are in the End of the Era trailer and having New Adventurer cover where they come from.

First cutscene for New Adventurer has the new adventurer encounter a adventurer who ask him or her about where he or she is from furing the time before your character began his adventurer and from the answer the next cutscene shown in next login would show the New Adventurer at their home and go deeper from there through dialogue choices such as if a NPC ask you if they remember them you are given a choice that will determine if that NPC is a brother or sister, friend, rival, boyfriend or girlfriend, or ....(for a random choice of these options)

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Originally Posted by Goufunaki

Nightmare video if anyone was curious.

http://youtu.be/ft8fqSDVnuQ

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That's what you get for sleeping in your armor.

Hopefully they could'a been pushing this back until Housing was released for a nice perk, seeing as they are more housing focused, I hope if you log out in your Companies Housings bed, that you remain there in the bed to other players,

Permanent Marker (Can I Have it?)

The "Log in Events" from 1.0 were tied to something very specific, they weren't just a "hey this'll be cool" they furthered the story of Meteor and while showing Squares usual penchant for ham handed metaphor and writing they at least felt like something unique. they would need to be tied to something big in the main story and one time only (like the 1.0 ones) or otherwise it would most likely become an annoying thing most people would try to avoid rather than be excited for.

Oh yeah, I definitely remember these. They were pretty awesome, indeed. If I remember correctly there were a few different ones.

Not only this, but when we woke up, we could check the bed and receive an item pertaining to the dream, too. Super fun stuff.

I wonder whatever happened with all of that type of stuff... The devs were really on top of things around the closing months of 1.0. There were lots of little treats as such. I'm hoping that when the team gets into the stride of things with 2.0, they'll start bringing this sort of thing back. This, and GMs popping up from time to time to chit-chat/RP with the local populous.

I do wonder though... if FFXIV has jails like before.

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Originally Posted by Tahldon

Oh yeah, I definitely remember these. They were pretty awesome, indeed. If I remember correctly there were a few different ones.

Not only this, but when we woke up, we could check the bed and receive an item pertaining to the dream, too. Super fun stuff.

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the dreams that gave you specfic items in your bed were text only, (Such as, "You had a dream you dropped a X crystal and it shattered" would net I think 6 of X shards, and "You had a dream you caught a glimmering fish" or something like that would net you a grilled carp but there were not cut scenes to go with them) otherwise I think, Story wise there were.... 2? 3? I remember one for Gawyn the Ganet, and the one for Meteor and that was it.

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Originally Posted by Sotek

You know what would be really awesome?

If when you log in, you can randomly get queued into a special Duty Finder group. You and seven other completely random people just wake up in a nightmare together and have to beat Diabolos. Not as a serious event of course, more like what Odin and Behemoth are now (purely for vanity) and a "proper" Diabolos fight can come later like how we're meant to get a proper Odin fight at some point.

Would be all the more epic if they don't even mention it at all and people just stumble across the fight at random. Even though I generally hate the Duty Finder, I'd actually find being thrown into something like this, purely at random, to be a lot of fun. They'd have to give it some tangible rewards though, otherwise people will just leave... Guess they could always just make it soloable...

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Going to have to go with big fat no on this. It only sounds good on paper, not in actual execution. PSO2 has something almost exactly what you're talking about but instead of getting it at login it happens randomly before you start a mission, your party gets abducted and you have to escape the place on a time limit. The randomness of this encounter while very neat and fun at first increasingly becomes nuisance as time goes on, even if you could just drop out if you wanted I'd rather not have to deal randomness out of nowhere in the first place when the game has no idea what plans you have.