The title pretty much says it all.
When I started out, I did not realize that I am enjoying a "peak FFXIV" while I was playing the game. Events were coming out left and right, and they all had quite a few items that you could earn. It was awesome.
I thought these events will repeat each year. Some special ones maybe repeat every two years, but you get the idea. Well, turns out, I was wrong. Oh, I was so wrong. As time passed, events contained fewer and fewer items. Now? We don't even get events anymore.
I know. I know. COVID and whatnot. That excuse is only valid if we are talking about the dev team adding new items. But I don't really look for new items. I just want the events, like All Saints' Wake back. If they have the same time and wish to appreciate the players paying for their sub, spending money on the Mog Station? Sure, add some more items to the events. But please, don't take out items, don't just give some items, or abandon the entire thing. I don't even care if they'd miss a new area like Ishgard or something. Just put in the old, years old content, please.
At the end of the day, I fear SE might have gone the Activision route. Mog Station makes money. A lot of money. And they just want every cent now. The FFXIV we bought, we loved, and played for endless hours for years - is forever gone. I am not sure if we have the power to nudge SE, the FFXIV team but I still make this post as an attempt.
Ps.: Before I get called a hater, I've been p(l)aying for many many years, I've pre-ordered Endwalker, etc. I still enjoy the core game very much so. I just don't enjoy the direction the FFXIV team is taking, that's all.
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10-31-2021, 02:07 AMEUSerenaHow could we get SE to repeat previous events regularly? Ie.: All Saints Wake
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10-31-2021, 02:12 AMDelis
We are still having All Saints Wake. This year it will be in Nov. after the release of EW. They are busy finishing up the Expansion, making sure it is ready to go and they wanted to get the moogle tome event out for the lead up to EW. Granted I dont see why they couldn't do both, but it is what they chose to do.
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10-31-2021, 02:12 AMaveyond-dreams
The Halloween event is coming after Endwalker releases sometime in November till December, then the Christmas event happens. Once the expansion comes out it'll be business as usual.
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10-31-2021, 02:21 AMPoporito_Popoto
Awkward...
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10-31-2021, 02:45 AMBacent
Man, a lot of these 'what ifs' about the end of the world and general assumptions.
Covid happened. Everyone, companies included, suffered. A lot of things got screwed cause of it.
Are they trying to go back to a more normal schedule with this stuff? Yes
Are payers like you not happy with it? Apparently.
Don't know why so many people go the entitled route instead of understanding what goes on.
No one was happy about everything coming to a near halt during Covid. But what can you really do when a pandemic hits and the world is either unprepared, or you have people going 'HURR HURR ITS NOT REAL/WONT HAPPEN TO ME' or antivaxxers making it worse.
Are you part of a HUGE Company and sees what happens when the literal shite hits the fan and everything halts?
Literally, who are you to say what's valid or not?Quote:
Originally Posted by EUSerena
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10-31-2021, 02:54 AMXaruko_Nexume
Is Halloween in November in Japan?? I don't understand why they would do this in Novemeber lol The expansion launches in the middle of November...
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10-31-2021, 02:57 AMValkyrie_LennethWell, last year people complained because it got skipped due to covid, and this year we have an expansion they are working to finish (and still covid), so rather than cancel it again (cuz people complained) they just... pushed it back...Quote:
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10-31-2021, 02:59 AMXaruko_NexumeHonestly? That would literally make more sense. They missed one year, what is one more? Makes more sense then having it at the wrong time, especially right after an expansion launch, which is itself 2 weeks before a new raid. Seems so odd.Quote:
Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth
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10-31-2021, 03:00 AMValkyrie_LennethIts an event that takes at most 20 minutes to complete, its not going to inconvenience anyone doing expansion things.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xaruko_Nexume
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10-31-2021, 03:02 AMShironeko_NarunyanHalloween is an American tradition based on a Christian celebration event. Japan doesn't have Halloween really, or rather, it's completely irrelevant and just "fun for kids" and "party in Ikebukuro and Shibuya". Kind of like Christmas has nothing to do with Christ or family here, it's a chance to go on a date. There's no Easter here at all. What we have here in November is Culture Day and Labour Day, both of which are days off for most people, but not a big deal like, say, New Year's.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xaruko_Nexume
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10-31-2021, 03:03 AMXaruko_NexumeQuote:
Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth
Oh okay, given all the Halloween items I see in game I assumed there was a lot more to it, and the cities would have Halloween decor and such. -
10-31-2021, 03:04 AMValkyrie_LennethThey do, but its still just a short questline that takes 20 minutes. ITs not some grand grindy thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xaruko_Nexume
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10-31-2021, 09:02 AMEUSerenaI don't mean to argue at all, I wish to just bring some attention to the "issue".Quote:
Originally Posted by Bacent
So maybe it'll be discussed, things can be changed. I know it's a super long shot, but if you don't try...
My points are:
- Please repeat old events yearly, such as All Saints Wake, Valentione's Day, Little Ladies' Day. Yearly. Let people enjoy it. Old players and new players alike.
- Please bring back old items. Make events build on themselves year by year. Let people collect old(er) items too.
If they don't have the time, manpower, resource? Cool. Just give us the items from the previous events.
I am simply a bit disgruntled about the current trend.
Instead of let's say 10 items, we get maybe 1 hat, and if you wish to enjoy the festivities? Well, time to hit up the Mog Station.
Maybe my assumption about the resources required is totally wrong.
I admit that I have no information if bringing in event decor and the old items are troublesome or hard.
Ie.: Making an old event happen, or an event just happens in general.
IF it is, I am sorry. (but even then, if they do happen, add previous items please?)
I've spent a small fortune on the base games, expansions, subs, retainer subs, mog station items, like so many of us. It's not that I want to be cheap, want to save money by having them come in events. Like, if someone is "cheap", they won't get the items this way either. If they want it now for a glam? They'll just hit up the Mog Station way before the item (our theoretical "old items too") event happens. It was just such a fun experience when people were exploring all the items, like the Songbird outfits, emote. Or recently the Regalia, everyone messing with it. A good friend of mine came back to the game (and has been playing for years now) because of the Songbird event back then.
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10-31-2021, 09:56 AMTheMightyMolluskHalloween came from a mashup of various pagan traditions that Christians later co-opted, as they often did with any other local traditions when they were trying to convert new populations (when they didn't just send in soldiers, of course). Irish and Celtic traditions like Samhain are the best known.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shironeko_Narunyan
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10-31-2021, 10:15 AMSilverObi
Events do repeat each year with last year and this being the exceptions because of yeah the worldwide pandemic that is still currently causing issues, in fact the game goes even further than just repeating an event and always features a new (albeit trivial) storyline to accompany it and even rearranges decorations in some spots so they're not carbon copies like is done in FFXI. Crossover events are the odd ones out in this regard however.
So maybe the reason our seasonal events got sparse besides COVID is that they don't just flip a switch for seasonal events and actually create new content each time for it beyond the rewards.
The one thing I will agree with is that I wish XIV did what XI does with previous seasonal event rewards and have them be purchasable from a vendor with gil rather than go into the mog station for real money. But that ship has long since sailed and it's unlikely it'll ever change. -
10-31-2021, 11:55 AMMoonlite
To the OP, the cash shop screwed events. Under the excuse so everyone can get items they monetized past events. If they had kept the original system where you could always earn past events. Which would make the prize pool bigger every year. Also if they had time crunches because of any number of reasons they could reuse old events. But they saw a quick buck and no forward thinking. As they could have any number of set backs. But cash now is better then cash lost in the future.
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10-31-2021, 12:31 PMShironeko_NarunyanYeah, but it's only really popular (and in that form) in America. It has no meaning at all in Japan.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk
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10-31-2021, 12:34 PMPlushyprincessMusaSo heres the thing people would be understanding completely if they didnt do the xmass one and other events like that because it shows they are really having issues. But if you just skip the one based on samhein then noQuote:
Originally Posted by Bacent
Not much changed from october to December in some cases it got worse in December.
As its my favorite holiday(the only one i respect and follow) society as a hole dismisses it and puts it down to all about candy.
Its not the day has a true meaning but its ignored.
Personally i feel like its unfair to not do it then go do a xmass one and others.
I mean hell i had to skip school in hs"elementry to celebrate the day correctly while society gives 2 weeks for xmass and one for thanksgiving.
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10-31-2021, 12:48 PMStriderShinryu
Lot's of weirdness going on here. As multiple people have said, they are doing a Halloween event this year, it's just been pushed back. They didn't cancel it and aren't skipping it. Also "Halloween" doesn't technically exist in Eorzea (and to some extent time doesn't either) so when the event happens is when it's All Saints Wake.
They do run events every single year. Yes, due to COVID, some were missed last year. But we also had reruns of the FF15 event and the Yokai Event to compensate. The Yokai Event did add new stuff, and the FF15 event was brought back almost purely based on fan demand alone.
Why not just skip the event if it's going to be late? Because then you'll have people complaining just like in this thread that they're skipping events, ignoring some holidays over others, cutting content, etc.
Why not rerun the same events every year if it's that hard to make new ones? Because then people will complain that they are skimping on content and not bothering to update things or do new things.
They really can't win what ever choice they make.
Why not re-offer the previous year's items in game instead of in the cash shop? Because it makes them money. I mean, there's not really much more to it than that. At the very least the items are usually fairly cheap compared to the fully cash shop designated items, but they've long since set the precedent and they're not going to change it now.