Please extend this year's Valentione's Day event?

Like, by atleast a day. My girlfriend and I were waiting until February 14 to actually do the event together. Now, snap to today, and we now have maintenance scheduled in four hours. Beyond that, now instanced servers apparently have borked and people on some servers have been waiting over 100 minutes to actually enter the instance.

Given the Emergency Maintenance and Server Issues, it would be highly appreciated if the event could be extended by atleast one more day.

You intentionally waited until the day before the event was originally scheduled to end before doing said event?

I mean, I get the instance server issue, but, the event's been running fine for two weeks up until now.

Shit happens and we were planning to do it today for a certainty, which shouldn't have been a problem since today is literally the day the event is about. It was in our plans.

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Originally Posted by Hasrat

You intentionally waited until the day before the event was originally scheduled to end before doing said event?

I mean, I get the instance server issue, but, the event's been running fine for two weeks up until now.

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And you're going to conveniently forget that the actual day of celebration the event is for is the day before the end of the event? That is a bad move by SE. Valentine's Day should have been in the middle or at the beginning of the event, not right at the end. None of the events should have the actual celebration day at the very end. Especially an event like this in which many couples would want to do the event together on the 14th for obvious reasons. Having it at the end means if something like the instance servers hiccups then the event is ruined for a lot of people.

The event ends tomorrow morning at 7am Pacific so you still have some time left before ends.

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Originally Posted by Penthea

And you're going to conveniently forget that the actual day of celebration the event is for is the day before the end of the event? That is a bad move by SE. Valentine's Day should have been in the middle or at the beginning of the event, not right at the end. None of the events should have the actual celebration day at the very end. Especially an event like this in which many couples would want to do the event together on the 14th for obvious reasons. Having it at the end means if something like the instance servers hiccups then the event is ruined for a lot of people.

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Nah, that's just a different point entirely. And one I agree with. Not really sure what their process was on that decision. Shoulda at least had it running through the weekend following the day.

But the greater fact remains that the timing has been known for a long while now, and I choose not to dredge up much sympathy for anyone that thought waiting until the last minute was a good idea. But I'm a heartless bastard.

I mean, sure, it sucks that extra maintenance will be cutting into the event, but things like that are exactly why you don't put something off, eh? If they never make concessions for anything else that gets interrupted by emergency maintenance, I wouldn't hold my breath to see an exception here.

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Originally Posted by Hasrat

You intentionally waited until the day before the event was originally scheduled to end before doing said event?

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I'll fully admit to procrastinating until the last day to farm up some chocolates and finish the event on alts, but if the schedule says the event is to be up and running, it should be running. People can't reasonably acquire event items at this point with queue times of over an hour and a half for something that was near instant earlier in the day. Yes, there's still time after maintenance, but a lot of people are going to have to forgo sleep for it. I fully expect to not have the event extended, but I would like to request that the items either be added to vendors for whatever event is coming next and/or be added to next years' event before being shipped off to the mogstation warehouse. I'd also request in future that events not end until at least couple days after a holiday.

edit: Seems the queue has gone back to under 5 minutes again. Get your achievements/chocolates before the servers keel over again.

Just because it's actually Valentine's day doesn't make whatever you do today special. So many people hold Feb 14th as 'Oh lovey dovey' day'. It's honestly not a special day at all, it's just a 'planned day to do something for someone you love', when doing it unplanned/out of the blue is so much better.

It's your fault for not doing it when it came out.

Lesson learned for next year buddy!

What's with all the blaming. If the event was scheduled from Jan 31 to Feb 15 then you kind of expect it to work during that time and plan accordingly. It doesn't matter if he planned it for the last day or not. I'm in the same boat, I mean, I did it but a friend of mine was only able to do it today and we couldn't do it because of the server issues. SE should totally extend this for one more day.

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Originally Posted by Rosentretter

Lesson learned for next year buddy!

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The lesson is never rely on Square-Enix?

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Originally Posted by Hasrat

But the greater fact remains that the timing has been known for a long while now, and I choose not to dredge up much sympathy for anyone that thought waiting until the last minute was a good idea. But I'm a heartless bastard.

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You are a bit if you think it's silly for couples to wait until Valentine's Day to do the Valentine's Day event together.

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Originally Posted by Hasrat

I mean, sure, it sucks that extra maintenance will be cutting into the event, but things like that are exactly why you don't put something off, eh? If they never make concessions for anything else that gets interrupted by emergency maintenance, I wouldn't hold my breath to see an exception here.

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I agree that it's unlikely that the event will be extended but I still think it should be if possible given the nature of it, that the main day for it is so poorly timed and how that is no fault of the players. For the event to mess up on the main day of it is a really bad experience for the players. Especially when it's gone the next day and maintenance will be cutting into what little time is left. This is bad planning by SE, not the players.

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Originally Posted by Penthea

You are a bit if you think it's silly for couples to wait until Valentine's Day to do the Valentine's Day event together.

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I think it's a bit silly for a couple to be upset about this instead of using Valentine's Day for doing...anything else other than being on an MMO and putting serious stock into a short Valentine's Day event.

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Originally Posted by KaivaC

I think it's a bit silly for a couple to be upset about this instead of using Valentine's Day for doing...anything else other than being on an MMO and putting serious stock into a short Valentine's Day event.

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Are you somehow unaware that some couples meet in the game? And sometimes a considerable amount of time passes before they can live together? Should they be criticised for doing a Valentine's Day event together, in the game where they met, on Valentine's Day? While the event is short it is special to a lot of couples who met in the game.

I met my boyfriend in this game. We live together now and we still did the event together on the 14th anyway.

Y the only decent reward is a plushy this year lol

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Originally Posted by Penthea

Are you somehow unaware that some couples meet in the game? And sometimes a considerable amount of time passes before they can live together? Should they be criticised doing a Valentine's Day event together, in the game where they met, on Valentine's Day? While the event is short it is special to a lot of couples who met in the game.

I met my boyfriend in this game. We live together now and we still did the event together today anyway.

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No, I'm not unaware of relationships like that. And I still hold that same opinion, because that's just how I feel. If people want to criticize them for it, then they will. If people want to defend it, then they'll defend it.

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Originally Posted by KaivaC

No, I'm not unaware of relationships like that. And I still hold that same opinion, because that's just how I feel. If people want to criticize them for it, then they will. If people want to defend it, then they'll defend it.

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So you're aware of them but clearly don't understand them. Got it.

Given SE's track record, I would not be holding my breath to do the event until the last minute. On paper, yes, the event should end after the actual day but in practice...nah, not with SE.

I agree that the maintenance was poorly scheduled.

I expect many people who enjoy playing the game together may have planned to do the event on the special event day.

I would be disappointed if they scheduled maintenance on other seasonal event days like Halloween as well.

You can blame the players, but it seems much nicer to let everyone enjoy the event on the event holiday date and also to not wipe out some of the last hours of an event.

I seem to recall that another seasonal event was actually cut short as maintenance overlapped the event end time. When that happens it is frustrating because the posted schedule is no llonger accurate.

Yeah, I mean I guess it would be considerate of them to extend the event but I suppose they are not obligated to do so. They always toss the tag, "Sorry for the inconvenience" on the maintenance schedule and call it a day.

I am sorry you and your girlfriend ended up missing out on it OP, but hopefully the two of you were still able to do something together :)

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Originally Posted by Avenger

I agree that the maintenance was poorly scheduled.

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Duty Finder / Instanced Servers being broken and an important NM in Hydatos being broken does require some asap fixing, don't you think?

I agree that it sucks to have Event plans ruined like that, and extending it would surely be a great move of SE - but you have to take the bigger picture into account as well. Those bugs were unfortunate to happen at this time.

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Originally Posted by Hasrat

You intentionally waited until the day before the event was originally scheduled to end before doing said event?

I mean, I get the instance server issue, but, the event's been running fine for two weeks up until now.

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How dare we have jobs and family that require much of our time.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...4f9aeaecaf19cd

Color me surprised, it's actually been extended through the weekend. When it really should've been scheduled to end in the first place.

Everybody wins?

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Originally Posted by Hasrat

Color me surprised, it's actually been extended through the weekend. When it really should've been scheduled to end in the first place.

Everybody wins?

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If they hadn't had the instance problems I'm sure it would have ended when originally scheduled

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Originally Posted by Hasrat

Color me surprised, it's actually been extended through the weekend. When it really should've been scheduled to end in the first place.

Everybody wins?

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Well cannot complain too much about it.

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Originally Posted by Rocond

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Thank you to the FFXIV team for that. :)

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Originally Posted by KaivaC

I think it's a bit silly for a couple to be upset about this instead of using Valentine's Day for doing...anything else other than being on an MMO and putting serious stock into a short Valentine's Day event.

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...trust me, there are couples who'd love to do anything else other than being on an MMO on Valentine's Day, but thanks to long distance relationships this might very well be their best chance to spend some time together - so why not do the event quest that was designed for that day?

Dont judge people over this until you know their circumstances - while my boyfriend and I did the quest much earlier to be able to farm a few more items, I could see why people would wait with it. Getting upset about it now might be a bit silly - but not as silly as broken instances servers and an event schedudle that puts the actual holiday at the end of the allocated time.

There was no reason for it not to be extended considering the duty finder issues, really good that SE actually acknowledged that and did realize the effect it would have on the event.

Thank you for extending the event, SE. Highly appreciated.

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Originally Posted by TheGrimace

Thank you for extending the event, SE. Highly appreciated.

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Yes thank you SE for that ^^

Props to the devs for extending this event!

Thank you, and I kind of expected it.
Not through any entitlement rubbish, but because SE always try their best :)

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Originally Posted by Rocond

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This is excellent news! Thank you SE!

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Originally Posted by RicaRuin

Duty Finder / Instanced Servers being broken and an important NM in Hydatos being broken does require some asap fixing, don't you think?
I agree that it sucks to have Event plans ruined like that, and extending it would surely be a great move of SE - but you have to take the bigger picture into account as well. Those bugs were unfortunate to happen at this time.

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I probably should have said "timed" rather than "scheduled" since it was emergency maint (although presumably they could have shifted it by a few hours.)
However, instances being broken also messed with the event, so it would have been frustrating to not be able to finish it because of that too.

Yeah - as you note, extending the event after fixing the bugs and server issues was exactly the right thing to do - I'm really glad they did so!!

Thanks OP for creating this thread, and thanks SE for fixing the issues and extending the event so people could finish it!

I can't believe how salty some people here got over op wanting to do the event on V day. It's almost like they were projecting their V day bitterness onto them or something. /shrug

It's just funny that many players are more hardcore about what SE should or shouldn't do than SE themselves.... you know... the people actually doing the work. Sheesh ease up people.

I was already done with it, but thank you from me too, it was a really nice move <3

Color me impressed. Or suprised. Or both. I did not expect that at all. Good job SE.