We can join the choir!

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...ht_Celebration

They have released the info for the Starlight Celebration 2018, We'll be able to get:

• Choir costumes
• Silver Christmas Tree (Indoor item)
• Present Boxes (Indoor item)
• Donut Furnishing (Indoor Item)
• Orchestrion Roll
• Snowman (Indoor item)

We will now be able too join the Ishgardian Choir. :p

Costumes aren't half bad. Neither are the rest of the rewards for that matter. I approve.

Lots of housing goodies, which is great because I need more stuff to decorate my event room for the guild Christmas event I'll be doing a couple days after this starts!

Going to have to do some interior decorating myself with these items.

I love every reward (especially the hat) and I'm very eager for the event to start!

All of these look pretty nice, actually.

Omg, I just read the description for the snowman item though

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This indoor frosty snowman will never melt away. He'll be there forever. Watching. Waiting.

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they redeemed themselves from the All Saint's Wake shortage. Good job Squeenix! :D

I'm always happy to get more songs. :)

The hat is cute and I think it will see a lot of use outside of Christmas time! Bonus points if they've been nice enough to let you /visor off the holly decoration.

I'm interested to try the gown on with some sleeve-altering hand gear - I think it could look rather nice with the AST relic sleeves!

I adore all the items for the Christmas event!! I can't wait for it to start!

Good thing I have next monday off. I'm going to deck out my FC house with this stuff. So many doughnut boxes... we're gonna need some coffee.

Ugh..Healer’s Robe and some beret-type Hat...
Guess its better than nothing.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WVjFD52XQTA

It's basically Theaterythym so if you've played that before or rythym type games in general it should be easy... but for those who haven't, it's frustating as anything. I don't know, maybe it's just lag but I keep missing every single prompt and failing (and I'm rapidly hitting the keyboard, I don't have a controller).

Guess I'll keep at it, but my enthusiasm for this year's event has diminished...

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

It's basically Theaterythym so if you've played that before or rythym type games in general it should be easy... but for those who haven't, it's frustating as anything. I don't know, maybe it's just lag but I keep missing every single prompt and failing (and I'm rapidly hitting the keyboard, I don't have a controller).

Guess I'll keep at it, but my enthusiasm for this year's event has diminished...

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I consistently fail it with a mouse. I can score 8 or 9 with keyboard until my FPS sinks (which is happening as people go in and out of the amphitheater) then I'm lucky to avoid complete failure.

It's a bad concept for what should be a fun, casual holiday event. I've got one friend who keeps failing the mini-game so she can't even complete the quest chain for the glamour and it's got her incredibly disappointed at time when she should be filled with cheer.

If the response is going to be "tough for her, she can pay real money next year to buy it", that is not acceptable.

Those might be having trouble with the timing n stuff I would say do the NPC that offers a reward of 2 certificates the prompts disappear slower than the other guy so that might help with the time in such. Also from what I've seen scoring a perfect 9 doesn't change the reward it still the same thing 2 for the slow prompts and (I assume) 3 for the faster ones.

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Originally Posted by Krokov

Those might be having trouble with the time in in stuff I would say do the and PC that offers a reward of 2 certificates the prompts disappear slower than the other guy so that might help with the time in such.

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I do worse at that one than I do with the other one when FPS issues set in. With the other one everything is coming up in rapid strings so I can just spam my keyboard and at least get "good" and usually fumble my way into "critical". With the slower one, I end up hitting the keyboard too soon or too late.

I also hope that color blind mode is working for those with orange/blue colorblindness. It would have been smarter to use different symbol shapes instead of making everything the same diamond shape.

I have yet to see anyone going "this is fun". The most they do is acknowledge whether or not they were able to complete it.

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

I do worse at that one than I do with the other one when FPS issues set in. With the other one everything is coming up in rapid strings so I can just spam my keyboard and at least get "good" and usually fumble my way into "critical". With the slower one, I end up hitting the keyboard too soon or too late.

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Indeed, On the bright side you just need to have at least one spectator, i.e. 8 misses or less, like the show in order to successfully complete the Mini quest.

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

I consistently fail it with a mouse. I can score 8 or 9 with keyboard until my FPS sinks (which is happening as people go in and out of the amphitheater) then I'm lucky to avoid complete failure.

It's a bad concept for what should be a fun, casual holiday event. I've got one friend who keeps failing the mini-game so she can't even complete the quest chain for the glamour and it's got her incredibly disappointed at time when she should be filled with cheer.

If the response is going to be "tough for her, she can pay real money next year to buy it", that is not acceptable.

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Funnily enough, it was with the mouse I was finally able to pass it, just... (with a score of 8 misses, one more missed and I would have failed again). But yeah lag is definetly a problem with this.

And I agree the minigame should be optional, not a compulsory requirement to progress in it. Ah well, the event is fun, once you can get around the issues with the minigame.

I didn't have any problems, but I'm on PS4 and didn't have any frame drops. I loved it. I want Stick-Wavy Lady as a title.

Grumpy tired post removed.. gosh I shouldn't post when I have had no sleep!

Maybe wait a couple days until the rush is over and then try when there are less people so less lag?

I've not tried yet, holiday plans are going to keep me from this for a couple days. Maybe that will help me out?

those choir costumes are terribad please SE hire completely new gear designers !!


ty and merry christmas O.o ho......ho (lol)

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Originally Posted by Heliantheae

I didn't have any problems, but I'm on PS4 and didn't have any frame drops. I loved it. I want Stick-Wavy Lady as a title.

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No problems here either. Then again I adore Project Diva and played all I could get my grabby hands on, haha. Am used to rhythm games.

I didn't notice any lag, but some of the button timings don't seem to connect to the music very well. Also there are a few points where there are two "button masher" notes one after the other, but the second one fails if you're still hitting the first.

It could really do with better warning of 'upcoming' notes instead of appearing right as you have to hit them.

(I also greatly dislike the "failing" effect where the music cuts out. It really throws me off, you lose the music for timing, and it just sounds awful.)

Overall it's 'okay' and it seems quite hard to actually fail (but I've played lots of rhythm games, mostly the Ouendan series), but it doesn't feel like a satisfying achievement to get through it either.



For playing on controller, something I've found when pressing buttons at precise timing like this is that it's easier with my pointer finger than thumb. I'll rest the controller on my knee, hold it 'as normal' with my right hand and (being left-handed) have my left hand resting over the controller with my finger on the X button.

No issues here too.
Did it with mouse and the actual left and right click like you are told.
Some tries later i got full combo on both songs.

Thank you SE, it was something different for a change. Really enjoyed that one.
#GoldSaucerMiniGameWhen ?

Edit: Why do i get flashbacks of Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.... XD

Oh, so it's that kind of minigame for the event this year. Hmmm... *war flashbacks of Atlantica from KH2*

To anyone who i having trouble getting through it, stop trying to go for criticals! The timing to avoid a miss is shortly after the marker appears until right as the shrinking diamond is completely covered by the outline of the middle diamond.

This mini-game is the most frustrating thing ever. :mad:

Seriously, I'd rather they just let me throw gil at the items I want than struggle through this. Instead of feeling festive I'm annoyed. Thanks SE.

Speaking of throwing gil at items, can we please get seasonal food from previous years put on the vendor instead of $5 for a single consumable on the Mogstation (nothing makes me crankier than this). Bah Humbug! XD

https://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acc...5a24dc78e4.jpg
You don't get anything for doing this, by the way.

I accidentally ran the event the first time with my music still off. Took me a few moments to realize, "Oh, this probably seems a bit better with sound."

So I eventually got to do this last night after work, and to my surprise I actually had fun with the minigame! The best score I could manage was a 95000, but I still think that's pretty respectable lol. I farmed it a ton along with a guildmate so we could make our FC house nice and festive, and got some of the goodies for my own house as well.

I think part of the initial difficulty is overcome just as you "learn the song" and recognise where the dings are supposed to fit into the music.

Also the correct timing for 'critical hits' seems a little bit later than I expect it to be.


And for people who can't pass it at all - is there any chance you're quitting as soon as the music goes bad, thinking it means you've failed? It'll keep going and you can recover if you hit enough good notes.

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Originally Posted by ElianaGoldstein

Minigame ruined event for me. Cannot complete it so there's no seasonal items coming into my home :(

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You can also just tap any random key on your keyboard, if it helps you. If you use your mouse, you don't need to move over the mouse to the symbol. Just need to klick left or right mouse button.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

I think part of the initial difficulty is overcome just as you "learn the song" and recognise where the dings are supposed to fit into the music.

Also the correct timing for 'critical hits' seems a little bit later than I expect it to be.


And for people who can't pass it at all - is there any chance you're quitting as soon as the music goes bad, thinking it means you've failed? It'll keep going and you can recover if you hit enough good notes.

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It took some practice for sure, but the same can be said for many things in the game. After I got the general feel for the song it became easier, though I did mess up a note or 2 most of the time. Either way I never failed once. Imo, people would have to try really hard to fail. Server lag probably makes it hell though.

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

It took some practice for sure, but the same can be said for many things in the game. After I got the general feel for the song it became easier, though I did mess up a note or 2 most of the time. Either way I never failed once. Imo, people would have to try really hard to fail. Server lag probably makes it hell though.

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The easy one has 40 "events" and the hard one 55 events to react to. Nine misses on either (22% on the easy, 16% on the hard) is a complete failure.

Latency/FPS issues definitely make it hell. Personally I'm still finding it easier to do the harder one. For some reason I keep getting misses on the orange diamonds on easier one even though I'm continually mashing keys.

I don't have anything against the mini-game itself. Placing it as a roadblock in a seasonal event quest chain that's supposedly about the season of making others feel good was a poor decision on SE's part. My friend from the other night finally got a completion so she could complete the quest chain but she's lost all interest in the Starlight Celebration and getting the housing items she had been looking forward to. So much for feeling good this holiday season.

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*Final Fantasy IX Vamo Alla Flamenco flashbacks*