[SPOILER] The Uma Bugyo Heavensturn event is so lame

I can't possibly be the only one who thinks this event is lame.

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The whole story line is just ridiculous.. The horses are forbidden, so they want me to run around with a stupid horse helmet to show people how awesome horses are? What do they think this can possibly achieve? They are seeing "me" running around, not any actual horse. And why would I want to comply? They make me think all Eorzeans, myself included, are idiots. And the rewards are lame too. These horse helmets are not even slightly adorable or useful, only creepy.

So far the only "seasonal event" I partially enjoyed was the Lightning quest. And that one was nicely done to promote Sales for the upcoming stand alone FF lol. Rest was a complete waste of time and a headache to fulfill.

Talk to NPC A, move on to zone B, talk there to NPC C, move on to zone D. Repeat a dozen of times until your head explodes. Is that what SE game designers think is enjoyable - over and over again? I wonder if we will EVER see a proper quest with maybe, just maybe..drumhwirl...a new/altered dungeon/area to explore behind it? I know it is an absurd idea to expect new fights from a seasonal event *sigh*

Just stick to FATES and make people running around in horse heads they can't even store at the inn. That's the real fun and it's cheap to create so it is a win win situation. Oh wait no, it's not. O_o

Yeah I too hated the event I was hoping for samurai looking armor from this event but the helms are garbage I couldn't get rid of them fast enough not to mention it pisses me off how they talk down about my chocobo f them I love my chocobo

Yeah I too hated the event I was hoping for samurai looking armor from this event but the helms are garbage I couldn't get rid of them fast enough not to mention it pisses me off how they talk down about my chocobo f them I love my chocobo

though the dragon helms are kinda cool....

All you chocowackers and soulless minions of orthodoxy. I have no time for your horseplay. I will grind you under my hoof. We will overcome your persecution with grace and equine-imity.

It may have been horrible, but it was at least a short break from pulling slyphs out of the same plants they get eaten by every day...

I enjoyed it alot, i'm bored of fate based events so stuff like this with a couple of cutscenes and some none combat based questing was exactly what i was looking for....i hope more events follow this and the lightning returns events way of doing things and we get less stuff like the xmas event which was a waste of time.

It is not that non-fate based events are lame. It is the content. The story makes me feel like an idiot. And it is just not FF to even attempt to replace chocobos.

It's a joke holiday, lighten up. I thought there was some really entertaining dialogue in it, and some funny scenes.

If you have done the quests far enough to encounter a cutscene with a Fledging Adventurer in Western Thanalan, that might answer your question about what good does it do to show people YOUR beauty, power, and speed while wearing the horse helm when it is not the REAL horse itself. Here's the dialogue:

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Fledgling Adventurer: Now here's a curious sight─a fellow in a most peculiar helm running up this road like fire through tinder. It's upset this chocobo something fierce.
Fledgling Adventurer: Embracing the inner horse, you say? Advocating for an Eastern mount? Nonsense! You see a fellow running his heart out in an outlandish helm and you think...you think...
Fledgling Adventurer: Why, you think there must be a good reason for a fellow to mortify himself so, and...and you wonder just how swift this horse must be for him to go to all this trouble and nonsense!

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I really like this smart solution to the seemingly ridiculous logic of the whole quest line.

By the way, I enjoyed the quests because they are hilarious. Gave me quite several good chuckles.

i spent just under an hour doing this, thinking i was going to be rewarded with a Chocobo Mask. boy was I disappointed with these creepy Horse hats.


not to mention the annoyance of not being able to move past a certain marker if a FATE is near....

The Lightning event was my favourite, i solo'd the armoured beast fate as blm with my chocobo many times :)
This event however drags on forever. Reason why i think a co-worker does not play anymore, too many quests make players out to be a courier service

I have not done this yet...oh boy...sound fun.....I thought we could put the seasonal items in our Armoire now....??? i was able to put my swimsuits in their finally and my ghost costumes....has anyone tried to put these helms in??? My favorite was the lightining event also...all the rest have been just tasky eat up my playtime boredom runs for stuff I wear for like 20 seconds just to get a screen shot really quick. Come on Vanity slots!!!!

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Originally Posted by Nialle

It's a joke holiday, lighten up. I thought there was some really entertaining dialogue in it, and some funny scenes.

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I am tired of jokes in ARR. Nearly everything has been turned into one.

Personally I wasn't fond of the event either. Not because of how short and boring it was, but just because nothing in it was funny to me and I was honestly more offended by some things said by the Horse people, or at least felt like my character would be. Especially when they insulted Chocobos, I'd take my feathery friend over a typical horse any day. Plus only having kabutos available was a bit of a letdown, though I enjoy that gathering food. I got a few stacks worth of that stuff after buying my dragon kabuto.

Still going to look forward more to Lightning event returning in February.

I have never enjoyed a special event once. Seriously maybe they should make them actual events like most mmos. Please don't make them a fate anymore it's just not fun.

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Originally Posted by Mooserocka33

I have never enjoyed a special event once. Seriously maybe they should make them actual events like most mmos. Please don't make them a fate anymore it's just not fun.

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Well, this event in particular was something which got on me, it felt like a single big personal insult. Maybe I take things too serious already, but it was the final drop which made the barrel overflow. After seeing what great game Yoshida made out of 1.x up to patch 1.23, by simply listening to the community, and then by kicking the people who helped him saving the brand by reversing everything into the opposite... it is already hard enough to be a legacy player who went with SE through the horror 1.0 has been and still be loyal now, but this event really, and I am totally serious here, has been so ridiculous and embarassing to participate, that I was 100% sure that certain people at SE have wet themselves while laughing at those idiots who are doing it.

Treating customers like retards seems to have become a vital part of Yoshida's business plan.

I agree!!! It was such a waste of time.

Seasonal Events and Quests should be enjoyable. And at least make the bloody rewards worth the time to actually do the quest. Seriously!?!?!

What am i supposed to do with these horse heads? They are worthless and have no use to anyone. Also one, the longest quest of the event - where you have to present all 3 different coloured horse heads you have collected from each city to the woman - gives you the most let down of an award ever! - A meal. Which you can buy from the seasonal NPC stood a few feet away from her.

What would have been a good reward is a horse mount! As that would have made sense and while doing the quest, you are kinda led to think thats what you might get!

Come on SE sort it out. You're seasonal events are waaaaay below standard.

Give us rewards we are gonna find useful! Mounts, minions, levelled items - constantly getting lvl 1 useless gear is just wasting our time!

Unfortunately, the only good thing to come out of this event for me was the Golden Dragon helm. That at least brings me back to my days as a Samurai in FFXI, and gives me hope that I can once again live by the sword in FFXIV, on day. :3

They were sort of stuck with this holiday. How do you expect them to create an event celebrating the Year of the Horse in a world that doesn't have horses? They wound up going with a comic attempt to bring in horses (which was never going to actually happen, since FF games don't have horses). I do wish they'd left out the insults to chocobos (or else had our character argue back at that point), but they were trying to fit in something that doesn't really fit the world.

The quests themselves were actually quite fun, and certainly a lot better than just a bunch of FATEs. So for actual content, I think this is the best event we've had in ARR so far. The rewards, however, are ugly and pointless. (At least the new rewards from this event itself are ugly. The dragon ones from a couple years ago are cool looking, so I'm glad we get to buy previous years' rewards.)

Meh, if it's between this or nothing, I will take this.


I do have to agree with the poster who was underwhelmed with the final "reward" though.

Really? A meal? And not even a unique one, one that you can walk 20-25 paces and buy 99 of from an NPC.


That was a pretty huge letdown.

I didn't expect a weapon that would be on par with end-game contenct... but, maybe a mount or minion?

The dragon helms are actually nice... for vanity slots <.<

Other than that, while I find the horse race part amusing, other areas fall flat. I don't see the point of having THREE differently colored helmets. At least once the vanity slots are out, those lucky bastards can wear Dragon Kabuto and Wyrm Mail and smirk smugly

Have I told you people that the horse kabuto doesn't look that good? I actually was hoping for some kind of joke horse head (as in, a plastic mask, not a helmet, like the snowman head)

Anyway, the event isn't really much

I for one thoroughly enjoyed the event. The dialog and silly puns made me laugh more then once. I would have loved to see more to the event sure, but what we got was fun for what it was--a comedy.

I look at it like I look at the Hildebrand quests, they're over the top and silly by design.

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Originally Posted by WellFooled

I for one thoroughly enjoyed the event. The dialog and silly puns made me laugh more then once. I would have loved to see more to the event sure, but what we got was fun for what it was--a comedy.

I look at it like I look at the Hildebrand quests, they're over the top and silly by design.

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Except Hildibrand was less offensive to me in terms of the NPC dialogue.

Also because Nashu is a treasure.