Why does the Rising Recruiter despawn?

Who signed off on this event to have thought that having an NPC despawning within any time window was a good idea?

If this is not supposed to have been the case, and there's a bug/error regarding the NPC, then why has there not yet been an official statement?

If this was designed this way, firstly again who thought having a time-limited event have a time-limited, event-enabling NPC was in any way a good idea? Second, again if this was intentional why was it not clearly stated that this was the way it was meant to be?

As if the development team cannot disappoint any more than they have been, they just keep finding new and creative ways to let people down.

Yeah, everything involving this is pretty farcical. I can't think of a single good reason for things to have rolled out in this way. I was looking forward to the Rising this year as I always do because they usually do interesting things to look on the past or to preview future updates, but so far I've been very underwhelmed because half of the content is legitimately gated behind an inconsistent wall they didn't have the foresight to advertise. The biggest part is we don't know whether this is intentional or if it's a bug because they aren't giving us any insight. But again, either way, it's less than professional.

I would say it's an accurate representation of 1.0.....

It definitely feels like a major oversight. I know a handful of people who were completely unaware that there is more to the event. It's also worrying that the game is celebrating its fifth anniversary but is apparently unable to handle server strain. That's the only real reason I can think of to justify the artificial gating. It's going to rub a lot of people the wrong way if the developers start talking about how amazing the anniversary event is during the upcoming Live Letter and things have not been resolved by that point.

Are you kidding me? Of all the stupid ideas...

Basically, you have to hope your playtime coincides with the Recruiter spawning otherwise too bad. Wow.

Can't you see this is SE's new direction for the game. Create events and lands no one will go to. Players standing around takes up a lot less server resources so Yoshi will be able to get a bonus for the money saved when he cuts back on server capacity.

_____ limitations!

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Originally Posted by Rofel

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Originally Posted by Rita1989

I would say it's an accurate representation of 1.0.....

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Ah, nostalgia lol.

Maybe it’s supposed to represent some kind of schedule for the “training program”

Seems its working as intended based on a reply someone got from the support team.

So yeah, this will be a memorable anniversary alright. xD

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Originally Posted by Rita1989

I would say it's an accurate representation of 1.0.....

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Originally Posted by Fredco191

Maybe it’s supposed to represent some kind of schedule for the “training program”

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Whatever it is, I don't like it ]X
How funny with this being the 5th anniversary, FFXIV actually made me mad lol

The event is supposed to mimic the final days of 1.0 right? The monster spawns in the cities weren't up constantly.

I'd say this works for me. Now all the people complaining about legacy players complaining about earrings can complain. I'm pretty happy with this event now :D


It's just digital pixels guys, why so upset?

Guess they had to make getting the White Ravens not as free as we thought it would be XD

Can't expect such a small indie company with a minimal budget like SE to get everything right can we?

Seriously though, this is not fun and fun is supposed to come first.

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Originally Posted by Deceptus

Seriously though, this is not fun and fun is supposed to come first.

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These days, I bet SE really regrets adding that line to their PowerPoint with how often they contradict it.

This is the stupidest thing. Why would you have a randomly spawning NPC essential for progress in a time-limited event!?

First they gave the finger to everyone who hated jumping puzzles with the summer event, now this.

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Originally Posted by TheGrimace

These days, I bet SE really regrets adding that line to their PowerPoint with how often they contradict it.

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Idk, they keep doing all this that contradicts that line. I am starting to believe they don't even remember it, much less care (if they do remember it).

1.0 ppl promised me that we would get their hard earned ugly earrings easily and now I have to wait for a random npc? :mad:

It's not an issue if there are time windows to when the npc spawns.
But it would really help if we were told when these time windows were.

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

The event is supposed to mimic the final days of 1.0 right? The monster spawns in the cities weren't up constantly.

I'd say this works for me. Now all the people complaining about legacy players complaining about earrings can complain. I'm pretty happy with this event now :D


It's just digital pixels guys, why so upset?

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I don't care about the earrings, but I would like to experience the instance as I've heard good things about it. It's spawned about 3 times on Cactuar and I haven't been available during any of them.

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Originally Posted by WhyAmIHere

Who signed off on this event to have thought that having an NPC despawning within any time window was a good idea?

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Funny, It was available on every server I tried it on. only had to wait like 5 minutes.

I think it's simply on a night-timer, as the instance itself doesn't reset, it just gives you 60 minutes, which is enough to do it 3-4 times. Depends if there's 200 or 400 people in it.

I think I was very lucky. I just logged in yesterday did the first quest. Once I finished that the recruiter was there. Killed the monsters, lots of players in, ppl grouping up. Got 100 tokens, got the ugly rings.

All and all it was fun.

Sucks to know the npc is random and has a limited window to appear. I guess by doing that whenever it pops it makes the whole server go there giving the impression everyone is helping each other. Maybe trying to mimic what really happened. Not defending SE on this though as I am a player with limited time to play. I just got lucky but I can say I did enjoy what I experienced.

Was lucky yesterday in Ul'dah, when popping back from a dungeon the recruiter was there. Started it and was very disappointed. This is effectively Eurekas NM's in the cities. Lots of people mobbing together to hit on monsters (synced to 50, btw), laggy gameplay and people dropping like flies due to missing or wrong placed AOE markers. Got my 100 tokens and left the instance.

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Originally Posted by KisaiTenshi

Funny, It was available on every server I tried it on. only had to wait like 5 minutes.

I think it's simply on a night-timer, as the instance itself doesn't reset, it just gives you 60 minutes, which is enough to do it 3-4 times. Depends if there's 200 or 400 people in it.

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"I don't think it's bad because it didn't affect me even if it did affect many others."

Well, congratulations for you.

Hey it looks like the bug report made was moved to Accepted Bugs, so maybe it isn't working as intended after all? If so I hope they extend the event duration for those of us who wound up with less time to play for it.

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Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor

Are you kidding me? Of all the stupid ideas...

Basically, you have to hope your playtime coincides with the Recruiter spawning otherwise too bad. Wow.

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People loved it in XI. Want that rare weapon? Well better hope that 24-72hr spawn time lands when you are free.

But yes, if they wanted to limit it, they could of made it something that could only be done daily aka "Reward Daily" with the option to re-enter as many times as you like to help people rather than something that is just random as to when it starts.

Sorry. been out of the game for a few weeks. So its on a timer? Like you just go to uldah and wait? Is there a specific spot?

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Originally Posted by heynowjose

Sorry. been out of the game for a few weeks. So its on a timer? Like you just go to uldah and wait? Is there a specific spot?

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There is a NPC in the "event" area of each city that spawns after a while, next to the shop NPC for the event items. You can wait or you can just queue for stuff like usual and when you see the npc appear, quickly withdraw from whatever else you queued for. Like it appears for longer than an hour and stays open until everyone exits. (eg the npc disappears and no more people will come in, but if there are still people in the instance you have until the timer runs out.)

So, I saw the npc in Upper Limsa Laminas where the seasonal events usually take place. I guess if it's not up in Ul'dah, it may be up in Limsa or Gridania.

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Originally Posted by Antanias

So, I saw the npc in Upper Limsa Laminas where the seasonal events usually take place. I guess if it's not up in Ul'dah, it may be up in Limsa or Gridania.

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According to the system text, the Rising Recruiter spawns at the same time in all 3 locations, and subsequently despawns at the same time in all 3 areas.