Thank you SE for this amazing summer event!

SE once again outdone themselves and gave us an amazing summer event and a beautiful outfit that i love and my viera too! :)

I just want to say thank you so much SE to give us so many great things even tho right now it is difficult with what's going on. I'm enjoying everything from 5.3 and the summer event! You're all the best!! Thank you!

My viera with the event outfit with the bee dance emote. :)https://imgshare.io/images/2020/08/1...812_101426.jpg

Can only add my thanks to that as well.
Was really a nice relaxation moment after finishing the story to 5.3. So thank you.
Hope you guys are safe and healthy!

I'm trying to upload a picture i took but it's not showing. I have the img between the url and click the image icon but nothing. I uploaded my picture on instagram or it only work on imgur? Please help lol

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Originally Posted by KadaRemnant

I'm trying to upload a picture i took but it's not showing. I have the img between the url and click the image icon but nothing. I uploaded my picture on instagram or it only work on imgur? Please help lol

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I guess just put the imgur link of the picture here. Screenshots have been shown this way already in the forums

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Originally Posted by Sorimachi87

I guess just put the imgur link of the picture here. Screenshots have been shown this way already in the forums

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I added the link but i'd like to make it show directly on my post.

GAH!! I forgot about the summer event! I was so excited yesterday with 5.3 I forgot to do it after I finished it,. My bun bun dancer needs this glamour!

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Originally Posted by ckq53

GAH!! I forgot about the summer event! I was so excited yesterday with 5.3 I forgot to do it after I finished it,. My bun bun dancer needs this glamour!

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I glamoured the outfit for my dancer too! Combined with the bee dance is just perfect! Added a picture to show but it's not showing directly :( so added the url. Lol Enjoy the event! :)

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Originally Posted by KadaRemnant

I added the link but i'd like to make it show directly on my post.

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Cant help you there then. Sorry

One of the worst summer event in years, but yeah, good job SE

Dancing until the fate boss dies. Guess there's a first time for everything!

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Originally Posted by Eimdal

One of the worst summer event in years, but yeah, good job SE

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One post troll. Carry on folks.

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Originally Posted by Eimdal

One of the worst summer event in years, but yeah, good job SE

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I wouldn't go that far, but while it could be better, it could also be far worse. That's just gonna be the rest of the year in general thanks to that wonderful pandemic. I wouldn't expect a whole lot from holiday events from this point on.

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Originally Posted by KadaRemnant

I added the link but i'd like to make it show directly on my post.

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Gotta make it so it has its file extention on the end of the url (.jpg/.png, etc). Click on the dropdown and "get share links"

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Originally Posted by Roda

Gotta make it so it has its file extention on the end of the url (.jpg/.png, etc). Click on the dropdown and "get share links"

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It worked (: Thank you so much!!

While the FATE part was fine, who in their right minds wants to dance for that Lalafell EVER? Seriously, not even a choice to try and say no, just... "You're gonna dance for him!"

In my opinion this was one of the worst events ff14 has ever done, it made no sense, why the hell don't you kill the shark yourself, you've faced far worse enemies than this. and why the hell wasn't the obstacle course and jumping tower here this year? there's notthing to do in this event other than some boring fate, i'd much rather they'd recycled last year's event.

I really love the summer event this year. The mechanic for the fate is fun but simple to do. I know a lot of people like the jumping puzzle but I was glad to not have to do it to complete the event. I just don't find that sort of thing relaxing to do. Although I would have liked to see it still there for anyone who wanted to do it for laughs (but I guess creating a no fly zone might have been troublesome?).

The gear is so lovely I'm not even sad that I can't wear the hat. It's also amazing with the new Bee's Knees dance :D

there was no stupid jump puzzle tower, so that made the event already a 10/10 for me

My Highlander male hula dancing in a skirt and floppy hat was both hilarious and disturbing at the same time.

My only complaint... no more fish stick quest!

It's disappointing.
There's only that one boring fate, which you also only need to do twice to get everything.
Last year's Moonfire Faire I ran each day to do the tower. Even then, there were other jumping puzzles or repeatable fishing. But this year I doubt I'll ever return.

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Originally Posted by Ilenya

While the FATE part was fine, who in their right minds wants to dance for that Lalafell EVER? Seriously, not even a choice to try and say no, just... "You're gonna dance for him!"

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We had to dance in the main scenario several times already anyway (for the sylphs and more recently for a perverted Eulmorian) against our will so it's more of the same really.

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

We had to dance in the main scenario several times already anyway (for the sylphs and more recently for a perverted Eulmorian) against our will so it's more of the same really.

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It's not "having to dance", it's "having to dance for Gegeruju" instead of leaving him to find someone else. (Did we even get paid?)

If it was at least optional whether to do it or not, and you got paid in tokens, that would be different. But he's not someone I particularly want to do something nice for "just because", doubly so while he goes on about his taste in women.

Instead, you have no choice but to do it before you can access the shop.

(Also, that MSQ-forced dance at the Beehive. Ugh. At least make it a sidequest so I can refuse to do it.)

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

We had to dance in the main scenario several times already anyway (for the sylphs and more recently for a perverted Eulmorian) against our will so it's more of the same really.

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Considering I want to crash Neverreap into the East Shroud because of the Sylphs and I hated having to dance on the Beehive (I would have told Alphinaud to go talk to people while I drew if I had the choice)...

Yes, I do hate being forced to dance. While this was "more of the same" the same is "Stop making me dance!"

And yes, the fact that it was for that Lalafell (Who I hated having to dance for in the DNC quest, so I am consistent) just made it all the worse. He has had NO redeeming qualities in my eyes, and every Moonfire Faire he does anything in just makes me hate him more.

What was so amazing about one fate with some easy to dodge AOEs?

Lets look at this event from another perspective. If you have cleared 5.3 for example. Your character surely must be exhausted. So from an in-universe standpoint this is a welcome change of pace.

And to be honest its about how you look at it. Square cant please everyone and everyone has their right to voice their opinion in a proper manner.
I rather have events like this then none but thats just me.
Personally i liked it and hope more will come in the future if Square and everyone involved can sort out the corona issues plaguing them. (If it isnt already sorted for them)

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What was so amazing about one fate with some easy to dodge AOEs?

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Yeah, the event seems kind of lesser to the multiple things we could do in the past. Though, I suppose this FATE provides just the right amount of challenge for the FFXIV community, so it's pretty good content.

When I looked at the description of the event, I thought:

Great,
another event that gives you Untradable Unsellable Market Prohibited housing stuff.
Another event that will have you discard something because it's forever useless and takes room you can't spare.
Another event that gives stuff to the happy few and trolls everyone else.

And I thought:
Great,
Another tower I can't climb because I'm too stupid to compensate the lacking third dimension I need to gauge my jumps.

But I thought:
Hey,
Maybe glamour stuff can be nice and maybe emote is nice.

So I thought:
At least, give it a try. You're already disapointed. What worse can happen?

So I did it.

And I thought:
I didn't have to discard housing stuff.
I didn't have to climb.
Gameplay was fun.

Now I can do it again and again and again, just for fun!

I enjoyed the summer event it was fun. The outfit and emote are pretty amazing. Thank you. And relative to the jumping event I think 3 years (has it been) is more than enough.

I enjoyed the event and quite like all of the rewards. It's nice to get a full outfit, a full dance emote and a housing item all from the one event. The FATE itself was silly and fun.
I would have liked the event to have a little more meat to it, or at least a little more staying power, but by admittedly rather low FF14 Holiday Event standards I would say it was probably one of the better ones.

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Originally Posted by KadaRemnant

I'm trying to upload a picture i took but it's not showing. I have the img between the url and click the image icon but nothing. I uploaded my picture on instagram or it only work on imgur? Please help lol

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Hi Kada! If you are attempting to link from imgur you have to use the Direct Link. I like right clicking and selecting Go to Https: blah blah.png (or jpg).
That lets me double check the picture. I select the full address and copy it. On the FFXIV forums, I select the picture icon, clear the field, and paste my imgur address in the now blank field and click OK.

https://i.imgur.com/ngwBEOe.png

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As for the event, I love it! The Summer festival is always a lot of fun. This particular festival included a bit of lore which is always a good thing.

Now, excuse me... I'm going to switch to my traditional outfit and dance.

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Originally Posted by Reap00

One post troll. Carry on folks.

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The event is one fate you can do twice and be done with it. It will respawn in the amount of time it takes to do the running around and talking after your first clear.

It didn't even bring back the jumping bits or slides.

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Originally Posted by Barraind

The event is one fate you can do twice and be done with it. It will respawn in the amount of time it takes to do the running around and talking after your first clear.

It didn't even bring back the jumping bits or slides.

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And that's different from any other seasonal event how?

Fairly lame imho. The outfit is nice, but the event was uninspired. Just a single overcrowded Fate you repeat once. Nothing to keep you around after like the fishing or tower from last year. Really disappointed I didn’t get to try the tower again.

Events for some time has been very uninspiring to be honest. It's just "Talk to these handfull of people do a FATE. Congratulations!".
I miss the events where you actually got to do something new. It might've not been mind blowing or inovative. But at least it was more fun.
Like that haunted house during that one Halloween event.
Events used to be something I looked forward to. Now it's just a "collect the limited items before they vanish".

I understand that it might be difficult making brand new event questlines and special stuff year after year so I don't blame them for putting in simple FATE events. But I wish for a new fun event that lets me do something else.

Honestly, as a max level player the fate was pretty basic, but considering it's a low level gate for the event, I think it's a pretty decent training exercise for new players who need practice with dodging telegraphs while maintaining positioning and uptime.

Though I do wish there were persistent minigames that we could partake in around the faire.
Watermelon smashing contest with QTEs.
Directing a fireworks display that plays like simon says.
A swiming race around the beach where you have to hit checkpoints in order while swiming to complete.
The dancing minigame they took out of the gold saucer.
(And more minor rewards to spend those tickets on to go with the increased events.)

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Originally Posted by Roda

The dancing minigame they took out of the gold saucer.

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Oh, right. I had forgotten about that one. Too bad, I quite enjoyed that one.

"SE once again outdone themselves". They gave us yet another summer outfit, and a FATE that you could do with one hand whilst watching YouTube. It wasn't that good...

I just smiled when I saw the Aliapohs and T'kebbe hanging out, particularly because I just finished Zhloe's delivery quests, so it felt that after weeks of work, she finally had the time to hang out with Kebbe and Khloe. I just like seeing NPCs hang around during events or other quests. It makes the world feel much more alive. Now trying to find more NPCs hanging around Costa del Sol. Was able to find Emmanellain and Honorit as well!

-Viv

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

Dancing until the fate boss dies. Guess there's a first time for everything!

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2nd time a fate like this has popped up for seasonal events. Back in 2013 or 2014 you threw snowballs at an X-mas tree mob so it could slay Grinch imps trying to ruin it.

I can appreciate what they were trying to do. Seasonal Event stuff has been too recycled too often for the past few years. While on the underwhelming side, I do like that they did something different instead of recycling the tower for the 3rd year in a row.

Devs - We'll make Dancer a DPS job for the expac.... but for players that wanted it to be a healer, we'll let you dance to heal/buff for this event only.