Finally a great event!

Giving credit when credit is due, in my opinion the starlight event has been the best in-game event by far! No fate spam-fest, and no RNG to worry about!

I absolutely love how personal/free company housing was brought into this event. I've met more people from the ward where my FC and individual house is located than I ever have before. The quest rewards are fun and everyone seems to really be enjoying the event.

Congrats SE!! Finally a successful in-game event!!

The current starlight event most certainly is one of the best seasonal events offered thus far. It appears as if the dev team is getting some more time to work on some more matured seasonal events. Let's hope they can keep this up! :)

I don't know about you kiddies but I've enjoyed all of them so far =d

Really? I find doing the exact same three dailies to be kinda boring... It doesn't feel like an event to me... I like the Housing aspect (and dislike the Subdivisions aspect, or lack there of), but I feel it could have been vastly improved by making the Red/Yellow/Blue Stars a daily reward, with Green ones being a spammable reward (FATE or not), with the Gift Bags being something you give to some random other player, rather than keep for yourself. For example, the Gift Box furniture they added could allow you to place a Gift Bag inside, or an NPC could deliver your Gift Bag to a random player via Mog Mail. That would have felt like a Chirstmas event.

The Summer event was much better, if only for the fact that it had three distinctive dailies, rather than three identical ones... Not to mention they were all in the same region, rather than making go to three different cities to do the exact same thing three times...

It's still a fun event, but I'd say it's the weakest so far. Never minded the other event FATEs, because they were generally fairly different from regular FATEs and at least kept me doing the event for more than a couple minutes a day... Hopefully the certain seasonal goods available on the 24th liven things up a bit at least... I'm probably mostly just disappointed with the snow though... Such pathetic snowfall, I want it to settle so we can have snowball fights in Gridania... :(

I agree that this is the best seasonal event so far, but I think the dev team needs to raise the bar substantially. This year's starlight should be the worst event, and everything else should be way better. FFXI had a lot of really good seasonal events, and nothing FFXIV has done so far has been even close.

My personal favorite was the Easter Egg Hunt. That was more fun, searching for those Spriggans with special eggs was my favorite part. After doing my dailies, I spent there rest of my days hunting them down and made good money off them, finally breaking 1 million Gil for the 1st time.

The only thing I want from this event is the boots (which I already have) and Hoary. Once done, I probably would stop. Nothing else looks cool.

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Really? I find doing the exact same three dailies to be kinda boring... It doesn't feel like an event to me... I like the Housing aspect (and dislike the Subdivisions aspect, or lack there of), but I feel it could have been vastly improved by making the Red/Yellow/Blue Stars a daily reward, with Green ones being a spammable reward (FATE or not), with the Gift Bags being something you give to some random other player, rather than keep for yourself. For example, the Gift Box furniture they added could allow you to place a Gift Bag inside, or an NPC could deliver your Gift Bag to a random player via Mog Mail. That would have felt like a Chirstmas event.

The Summer event was much better, if only for the fact that it had three distinctive dailies, rather than three identical ones... Not to mention they were all in the same region, rather than making go to three different cities to do the exact same thing three times...

It's still a fun event, but I'd say it's the weakest so far. Never minded the other event FATEs, because they were generally fairly different from regular FATEs and at least kept me doing the event for more than a couple minutes a day... Hopefully the certain seasonal goods available on the 24th liven things up a bit at least... I'm probably mostly just disappointed with the snow though... Such pathetic snowfall, I want it to settle so we can have snowball fights in Gridania... :(

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I like the gifting idea. Essentially allowing people to be generous by their own accord (though it'd probably work better if those items were obtained by some sort of means/currency that is given along with the personal turn in reward means/currency). Then again, this is all hindsight talking. It's easy to criticize and offer better ideas after the fact, which is often due to some previous experience concerning it... which the devs may or may not have experienced themselves.

The snow comment just reminds me of WoW's old snowball fights in AV PvP. That stuff was hilarious, but definitely annoying if you weren't of the mind to deal with it. Huge snowballs could be collected from the snowy terrain that, when thrown at a player, would cause a knockback that sends them flying very far. Needless to say, they never brought it back... but it was damn fun for many of us while it lasted. Of course, there has always been regular snowballs to throw at people, but not quite the same as launching people off cliffs.

The "Daily" component of this is aggravating for those who have alts and are trying to get items for them. My GF was up till 6am doing the round of dailies for the event. And there's no real involvement or fun in the actual event itself.

Run to Point, press button receive bacon letter, turn in letter, turn in present, get item, 3 times daily. The other events thus far were far more involving and fun and did not rely on those interested in getting items to have to log in EVERY DAY of the event to even get a chance at a decent collection.

I'm loving this event, too! It's so cute! And having the housing be part of the event was genius. It makes it feel… special, somehow.
I do agree, that past events like the easter egg hunt, and the summer games were really fun too!
But yes, this one has definitely out did itself! Happy Starlight Celebrations everyone!!!

Came in here looking for some complaining about dailies. Was not disappointed.

(I don't mind FATE spamming, but the dailies do keep me involved with the holiday event if I want that minion. Very clever.)

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... but the dailies do keep me involved with the holiday event if I want that minion.

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You can get the minion and one of the gear pieces in the first day. (I did.)

Doing it just two days, you can get the minion, all the gear, and have a few stars left over for food items or gift bags. It's only if you want all the housing items as well that you would do the event more than twice. In that case, 6 days gets you everything. Anything past that is just for additional gift bags or duplicates of the housing items.

As for how the event is overall, I think I agree with Nalien. You have to go to three different cities just to repeat the exact same simple quest, of just touching someone's tree and coming back to give a kid an (unidentified) gift. I did rather like the "Going the Extra Smile" quest (the one with Timothy after completing each of the three dailies for the first time), but there isn't much else in this event that's worth recommending. Most of the other special events this game has had involved actually doing stuff, and were far more appealing.

Can't agree more, LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS EVENT SO MUCH. Doing stuffs on my Alt to get all the housing items for the Free Company :D

Also - what do you make of this: Certain seasonal goods attainable via daily quests will become available on Wednesday, December 24, 2014 at 7:00 a.m. (PST)

(What will we be able to buy at that time and how many Fallen Stars will we need? :o

I like that it seems to be a "test" for a new type of quest. AFAIK we've never seen the "branching quest reward" function before now.

Some of you are downers, i love pretty much most events SE add.
Hands down they do an awesome job decorating the areas as well.
The Biggest plus, and perhaps a first to this game also no fates required for the Starlight event, that deserves an applause, haha

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Some of you are downers, i love pretty much most events SE add.
Hands down they do an awesome job decorating the areas as well.
The Biggest plus, and perhaps a first to this game also no fates required for the Starlight event, that deserves an applause, haha

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People keep knocking the FATE usage without realizing that most of the seasonal events don't use FATEs, except halloween which made unique use of it. The reason we associate events with FATEs is that all the crossover events and most of the first year events made use of them.
If you're gonna be made about recurring themes, all the events including the crossover events involve newspaper reporters -_-

I really always dislike "dailies". It's like you are 'forced' to do them because if you miss a day you are suddenly behind everyone else and have permanently lost that chance of gaining something that day. I really enjoyed the other seasonal events but this one has me grabbing my santa suit, tights and boots and not doing anymore =/

and we got more items this time too. the OP forgot to mention about the weather effect change

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I like that it seems to be a "test" for a new type of quest. AFAIK we've never seen the "branching quest reward" function before now.

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I hope it's a test for more Housing-centric events, because that's the really great thing about this event. Hopefully they iron out the bugs and actually remember Subdivisions for the next event...

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I hope it's a test for more Housing-centric events, because that's the really great thing about this event. Hopefully they iron out the bugs and actually remember Subdivisions for the next event...

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Heh, for some reason now when i think of subdivisions i think of slums...

I find the daily quest boring, but I liked the story (even though it was a bit too short).

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Giving credit when credit is due, in my opinion the starlight event has been the best in-game event by far! No fate spam-fest, and no RNG to worry about!

I absolutely love how personal/free company housing was brought into this event. I've met more people from the ward where my FC and individual house is located than I ever have before. The quest rewards are fun and everyone seems to really be enjoying the event.

Congrats SE!! Finally a successful in-game event!!

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It was a much more fun event I agree. I personally like the dailys as well. Theres RNG in the premium gift bags but RNG is inevitible. No MMORPG is without RNG.

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Also - what do you make of this: Certain seasonal goods attainable via daily quests will become available on Wednesday, December 24, 2014 at 7:00 a.m. (PST)

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Looking at the event page the items shown are all currently available...which means we don't know what items become available that day.

It definitely has some pros and cons to it. Like others, I did enjoy that it brought out some interaction in the housing wards. I've mixed feelings about the dailies: on one hand it's nice that holiday items aren't just straight up gil to buy and then be done with it, you actually have to involve yourself in the event. But I would agree dailies can be slightly stressful to some worried about missing a day (despite the impact being probably not much), especially compounded with the other dailies that people feel compelled to complete (beastmen, roulettes, etc). It is nice to not have FATE zergfests as well, but have to agree that the dailies for this event are somewhat bland "run to the tree then return" with little variety.

Overall a great step in the right direction. I think what could be better moving forward is involving more player to player interaction, and more really unorthodox ideas than just running around town. I'm with Hiruke above and seem to recall FFXI's events from the time I played that early on being much more fun and involved, for example:

-Trading Easter eggs with letters on them to spell words: you'd have to trade letters with other people to get what you need (i.e. "want to trade an E for a G") Recent XIV Valentines did something similar, but the dependence on character gender wasn't a good move there IMO.

-Goldfish scooping in rivers outside of town for summer. Simple, and not really any more complicated than just clicking, but somehow it seemed to mask that and feel fun.

-There was a Halloween(?) event that sent you invisible to high level areas like Cauldron or Den of Rancor but level synced you to 1, and you had to sneak around to a goal point, harmless as long as you didn't accidentally remove the invis, but effective in putting a little bit of scare in you

Though I do believe XI had a tendency to reuse the exact same event each year, so I appreciate that XIV gives us some new variations each time they come around.