Will there be something coming to entertain us during this Lockdown?

Was just wondering if we will have any sort of Event going to happen anytime soon?
I mean... every other Game I know is doing something for their Playerbase right now (f.e. WoW is having an 100% EXP Buff and 100% Rep Buff).

My Sub is running out next week, so I was wondering if I should renew it or go play something else till X.3 will come out anytime this Year (Got delayed due to Covid19).

I would love to have an Mogry Tombstone Event or/and Gold Saucer Coin event :)

Highly doubt it. See you in 5.3 in like 8 months!!

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Originally Posted by MPK

Highly doubt it. See you in 5.3 in like 8 months!!

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I'd wager that 5.3 is mostly complete - I doubt it will be delayed for very long. 5.4 on the other hand...that remains to be seen.

There's also a Live Letter on the 24th of this month with a preview of what is to come in 5.3. It's practically guaranteed that the development team will comment on the viral outbreak and their plan to work around it.

Not really sure, maybe some contest, probably the Make it Rains campaign (they usually do both the middle year between two extensions).

Will they plan something else? No idea. Technically they probably are able to make some event based on old ones or to reactivate an old event. But it is still extra work. So... We probably need to wait the Live Letter to have some kind if informations.

Would like another gear/hairstyle design contest tbh.

Pretty sure they just dropped a whole game on us :p

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Highly doubt it. See you in 5.3 in like 8 months!!

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Shit they only pushed it back by at most a month... July isnt 8 months away

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Originally Posted by BasicBlake

Shit they only pushed it back by at most a month... July isnt 8 months away

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There's speculation it might be longer because of the ongoing situation in Tokyo due to COVID, which is currently a hotbed that doesn't seem to be slowing down. That said given the circumstances any length of time the game might be in hiatus is kinda understandable and I hope the dev's are all healthy and well through these trying times.

As for things they can do that require minimal manpower, I second the idea of doing contests or MGP events. It'd require minimal interaction from the dev team and could let them focus on staying well.

MGP Event is just a switch turning on.
Moogle Event with Mogry Tombestones could be possible as well. They could add like a new Tombestone and let you buy all the previous stuff from the Moogry Event with it^^

I think they have other issues to face atm then entertaining us.
Let them be and lets be patient.

Ofcourse dont get me wrong, i wouldnt mind a event or something like that at all... ^^"

Ishgard Restoration isn't going to restore itself.

I'm sure we'll have the same events we usually have at this time of year. Make It Rain would already be in the game files since it would have started before they had originally expected to release 5.3.

So far Moogle Treasure Trove seems to start up about 4 weeks before the next major patch release. That would overlap Make It Rain if they don't extend it to be a longer event this time.

If you've run out of things you're interested in doing, go ahead and take a break from the game. It's always good to play other things. You can start your sub back up when you're ready to return.

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Ishgard Restoration isn't going to restore itself.

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Good point. I don't know how many steps there are, but some of Japanese servers are in the mid 30s, while everyone else is still in the mid 20s.

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There's speculation it might be longer because of the ongoing situation in Tokyo due to COVID, which is currently a hotbed that doesn't seem to be slowing down. That said given the circumstances any length of time the game might be in hiatus is kinda understandable and I hope the dev's are all healthy and well through these trying times.

As for things they can do that require minimal manpower, I second the idea of doing contests or MGP events. It'd require minimal interaction from the dev team and could let them focus on staying well.

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If nothing else it is letting me catch up on my gaming backlog and play PSO2 and FF7R. I can't complain too much. lol But yeah, right now the health of everyone is more important than game development. If the next patch or 2 is delayed significantly then it is what it is. There wouldn't be delays if it wasn't necessary. A business doesn't profit off of doing nothing.

They'll have a glitch with a contagious high damage tic DoT appear creating a pandemic in game... oh wait Blizzard already fubared WoW like that years ago.

Maybe they'll add randomly spawning fates to fight giant COVID bombs.

It would be nice for them to at least turn the Itinerant Moogle stuff back on, especially for those of us who missed the earlier prize rotation. No big deal to me if they don't though.

Do exactly what I did - do something else.

Wow, 100% exp and rep in WOW, I'll totally sub again.

Sike.

I'm guessing if 5.3 drops, they could put the game on hiatus save for patches and QoL fixes. To be real, we may not even see 6.0 until 2022 at the earliest, so they'd be drip feeding content until that time.

usually a gold saucer event in may. It would be nice if they extended that.

I plan on finishing my Witcher 3 play through and then play through all of the Mass Effect games again while I wait for the next patch... once I finish leveling WAR to 80 and snag it's relic though! Want to make sure I have all my tanks in order before I dip for a few months.

I would be glad if they could activate some kind of xp buff for levelling.

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I'm guessing if 5.3 drops, they could put the game on hiatus save for patches and QoL fixes. To be real, we may not even see 6.0 until 2022 at the earliest, so they'd be drip feeding content until that time.

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FFXIV is likely on a contract to give out an Addon once per 2 years, SE and FFXIV is not the same. This is were it gets tricky and creates a situation we did not have before.

What happens if the 2 Year cycle is in danger? A Virus certainly is something new.

If SE Forces FFXIV to still press out that 5.0 in Summer of 21 because SE says ... "Money plz" and if so what will happen? Will some ideas be cut short, or not be added at all?
Or will SE realise "we piss of to many players if we rush for the cash"

We never had this situation, but there is a chance this will eat content that will now never see the light of day, or take of some of the polish.
We dont know what happens, this is new so lets see.

You may have seen similar when other companies push out games for christmas, another question why is the cycle in Summer?
Is there something that enhances their sales in Summer? Like the Summerhole a lot of companies try to fill?

Time will tell.

Im guessing 6.0 wont be until late summer 2021. Im hoping a moogle treasure trove for next month and then gold saucer event in June then patch in july.

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Originally Posted by Eyske

Was just wondering if we will have any sort of Event going to happen anytime soon?
I mean... every other Game I know is doing something for their Playerbase right now (f.e. WoW is having an 100% EXP Buff and 100% Rep Buff).

My Sub is running out next week, so I was wondering if I should renew it or go play something else till X.3 will come out anytime this Year (Got delayed due to Covid19).

I would love to have an Mogry Tombstone Event or/and Gold Saucer Coin event :)

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I'm sure there is still plenty left in game that you could be doing that doesn't require the FFXIV development to break quarantine to keep you happy.

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

Pretty sure they just dropped a whole game on us :p

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You've talking about game that has nothing to do with XIV?

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Originally Posted by yukiiyuki

You've talking about game that has nothing to do with XIV?

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Problem? Most final fantasy fans will be playing it. Pretty much my entire raid group did. No extra raid nights since release.

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Problem? Most final fantasy fans will be playing it. Pretty much my entire raid group did. No extra raid nights since release.

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Exclusive for PS4 btw, that has nothing to do with MMO we are talking about here, except title.
These people won't stop surprising me.

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Exclusive for PS4 btw, that has nothing to do with MMO we are talking about here, except title.
These people won't stop surprising me.

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Well, looking at your character, you still have plenty of content in xiv to keep you busy for the next few months. So I don't see any issues at the moment!


I just started big fishing. I have other games to play, and savage prog. I don't need anything new at the moment.

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Well, looking at your character, you still have plenty of content in xiv to keep you busy for the next few months. So I don't see any issues at the moment!


I just started big fishing. I have other games to play, and savage prog. I don't need anything new at the moment.

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How is my character somehow related to what we discussed? How is 7 remake related to MMORPG we're playing? It's 2 different games and not everyone die hard FF fan here and just want to get some boost or event like other MMO games do right now.
We're getting levels of stupidity that shouldn't be possible.

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How is my character somehow related to what we discussed? How is 7 remake related to MMORPG we're playing? It's 2 different game and not everyone die hard FF fan here and just want to get some boost or event like other MMO games do right now.
We're getting levels of stupidity that shouldn't be possible.

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Well, you complained about me bringing up 7, so I brought up that you already have tons of content available that you haven't done/completed.


Now apparently that has nothing to do with the game?

We also already have exp bonuses, and tons of them.


Why are you even here. All you do is whine and complain. Why do you hate that people enjoy the game as is, or also enjoy playing other games?

I'm just holding out for this live letter. God I hope it's good. Would kill for a bunch of speculation worthy stuff.

Alas, it is only the first of two though. So I'm sure my hopes will be dashed.

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Well, you complained about me bringing up 7, so I brought up that you already have tons of content available that you haven't done/completed.


Now apparently that has nothing to do with the game?

We also already have exp bonuses, and tons of them.


Why are you even here. All you do is whine and complain.

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You still didn't give a normal answer, how is that related, no one cares about your personal preferences and what about you wanna do in your life. Person asked a good and related question, why would you need to puke your unrelated information?
Better tell me why are you here, just to share your nonsense?
Clown, you forgot your exp bonuses that works only on preferred worlds.

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You still didn't give a normal answer, how is that related, no one cares about your personal preferences and what about you wanna do in your life. Person asked a good and related question, why would you need to puke your unrelated information?
Better tell me why are you here, just to share your nonsense?
Clown, you forgot your exp bonuses that works only on preferred worlds.

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Armory bonus is 50-100% exp bonus to all combat jobs under your highest leveled job.

Crafting and gathering jobs got what is basically a 2-300% exp boost in the last couple patches.

Also, you didn't have a question, you just got upset about me bringing up another game made by the same company under the same overall title.

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Armory bonus is 50-100% exp bonus to all combat jobs under your highest leveled job.

Crafting and gathering jobs got what is basically a 2-300% exp boost in the last couple patches.

Also, you didn't have a question, you just got upset about me bringing up another game made by the same company under the same overall title.

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Person talked about bonuses like road to 70 for existing characters as well, and you're still telling some useless information. Whats next, you will tell me about bonuses on your first clear of leveq?
If someone wanted to play another game, he'd just went to play it, instead of creating topic on forum, many MMO give something for people while we sitting home, like additional boosts, VIP statuses or reruns of old events.

It's not about whining, complaining or disliking ff14.

It's about passing on feedback that some of us like spending time in ff14, but 5.25 was a small patch and there'll be a long delay until 5.3, so we'd appreciate anything they could throw us to keep us occupied. It's perfectly fine that you don't want events or activities, but not everyone shares that opinion. Let's not derail into arguments.

Basically, we understand it's a difficult situation and don't want to tax them, but if there's anything at all they can switch on, it'd be a plus. That's all.

Next relic step - 500 tokens from each Eureka zone per weapon.

Now would be the perfect time to introduce whatever ultra grindy thing they have saved up.

Farm several thousand FATEs? Sure!

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Next relic step - 500 tokens from each Eureka zone per weapon.

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So I wouldn't have to farm at all for that step either to build every weapon since I never threw them out... >.>;

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Next relic step - 500 tokens from each Eureka zone per weapon.

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No more Eureka type garbage ever again.