Thank you for the event!

This throw me back years ago when I was farming a similar event for a similar sakura tree.

While it's not an instance game like the one before, having to do a fate is perfectly acceptable (and used to be done too in some event in ARR/HW).

Some won't like it, it's sure. But it's still way better than what we used to have for a couple of years. Personnally, I enjoy it.

Also, thanks for not giving too many currency at once for this one. We can actually do it a couple of time ! This is exactly what we needs from event, having some small mini game to do and the possibility of farming those.

Please keep going on that way for the next events :) I can't wait to see a "parkour" game like we had in the past for a summer event on the beach of Costa del Sol!

While I agree with almost everything you said, I do think the currency is a little too low. You'd need 18 certificates to get everything, I'm getting 4 certificates for a gold completion rating. Feels a little on the low side to me, personally considering I want a lot of the trees as well.

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While I agree with almost everything you said, I do think the currency is a little too low. You'd need 18 certificates to get everything, I'm getting 4 certificates for a gold completion rating. Feels a little on the low side to me, personally considering I want a lot of the trees as well.

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I had 10 trees and every rewards, and did 1:15 hour of the event.

I don't believe that it's too low. I don't mind spending a little time on the event. While the cake making was more fun than the cheering, it's still better than nothing and it all depends of how many trees you want. If your goal is to stash 100 trees on a retainers to sell them in 1-2 years when they become more rare, then yeah you'll probably spent a couple of hours. (I know they are not sellable on the marketboard, but sharing the ownership of an house are ways of having someone giving/selling you limited items)

But I feel that the ratio is good right now.

Oh and just to let everyone know : 6 cheers is all it takes to get the 4 certificates. So you can chill after that. 5 is silver reward

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While I agree with almost everything you said, I do think the currency is a little too low. You'd need 18 certificates to get everything, I'm getting 4 certificates for a gold completion rating. Feels a little on the low side to me, personally considering I want a lot of the trees as well.

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World of Warcraft has events with mounts that are silly drop rates. I think it's something like a 5% chance drop once per day per account then it drops to 1% for alt runs. Once the event is gone so are the chances until next year. There are people that have gone YEARS without the drop.

I think FF14 players are very spoiled (I'm not directing this at you) but it literally takes a few hours if your farming those trees - sit in the area do some crafting then when the fate pops talk to the NPC and off you go.

On topic:

I hardly do events unless there's a reward I like also they have been "talk this NPC then this NPC" boom your done for awhile.

It's nice to see a little effort been put into them again to be honest and I like the glowstick emotes! Didn't take too long because when the fates up its on a 3 min timer to complete (or was it 2?) Anyways I enjoyed it and bagged some goodies.

I wish this was more alt friendly.

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World of Warcraft has events with mounts that are silly drop rates. I think it's something like a 5% chance drop once per day per account then it drops to 1% for alt runs. Once the event is gone so are the chances until next year. There are people that have gone YEARS without the drop.

I think FF14 players are very spoiled (I'm not directing this at you) but it literally takes a few hours if your farming those trees - sit in the area do some crafting then when the fate pops talk to the NPC and off you go.

On topic:

I hardly do events unless there's a reward I like also they have been "talk this NPC then this NPC" boom your done for awhile.

It's nice to see a little effort been put into them again to be honest and I like the glowstick emotes! Didn't take too long because when the fates up its on a 3 min timer to complete (or was it 2?) Anyways I enjoyed it and bagged some goodies.

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I mean I'd much rather have done the cake event multiple times for Valentine than do this "fate" over and over. It's more about fun than it is about rewards. Spamming glowstick emotes onto NPCs over and over is not very engaging. I agree it's nice to do event stuff for a while as opposed to one and done, but it should be fun, and this one, to me at least, isn't very fun.

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I mean I'd much rather have done the cake event multiple times for Valentine than do this "fate" over and over. It's more about fun than it is about rewards. Spamming glowstick emotes onto NPCs over and over is not very engaging. I agree it's nice to do event stuff for a while as opposed to one and done, but it should be fun, and this one, to me at least, isn't very fun.

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Oh no I totally agree.

I didn't do the Valentines one but it looked fun.

This one seems like a middle ground between the Valentines and just going between NPCS for 10 minutes and buying stuff with gil.

Now if it was a farm like Demi Atmas or even if it was 1 token per fate I'd understand but it's not.

You mentioned the trees - how much garden spaces do you get? 20 slots? I don't do housing but I think saying 20 trees ypu want to purchase would be fair.

That's 60 tokens 15 fates over a two week period its basically 4 trees over 3 fates.

I just don't get the complaint I guess I enjoy an MMO been an MMO and I like grinds but feedback over token quantity per fate is absurd when they hand us everything in events for minimal effort anyway.

I'd just like SE not to go back to the 10 minute tour between NPCS then maybe I would actually engage with events outside of seeing something I like.

Cute event. More interactive seasonal events please!

Enjoyable event. Though I wish they had also included normal-sized shirts.

Yeah, it's a fine Fate, but I didn't find it super fun, so I'd like at least like 6 tokens each sigh.

Also, I'm not planning to get tons of trees, but I like the other rewards were great even if the idol shirts were p terrible imho.

I do appreciate that they gave us SOME level of interactivity/a mini-game like the Valentine's event.

Even though I don't really want most of the rewards, I was willing to play it more than once and ended up with most of the rewards anyway, which we need more of.

"Hey, this is a little fun."
"Oh, are you here for the prizes too?"
"...There were prizes?"

I'm happy getting more lightstick emotes.


I thought the event was nice and engaging, I'm glad you have to keep doing the FATE to get items instead of just buying them all with gil right away. And it spawns fairly quickly so you don't have to stand there for 20 minutes, although I did wonder if the spawn rate might be tied to how many people are currently participating, since you effectively pre-join the FATE by talking to the NPC. Also the NPC should probably have some kind of purple FATE/quest marker over her head.


This event kinda reminds me of the Fantastic Fraulein Mumor events from FFXI, as well as some others, mostly because they also have you participate in the event by doing emotes at performing NPCs to cheer them on. This seemed like a pretty good equivalent of that (except those are magical girl stage shows and this is an idol concert).

A pretty solid event. The worst thing is having to wear those pants.

Another chore that we could live without. And so greedy on trees, if you want multiple, you have to grind for few hours. Would be okay if we had to do fate once then could buy everything via gil, but it's clearly made with intent to make tree farm harder to prevent hoarding as much as possible to ensure mog station sales of these trees will have a good rate.

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Another chore that we could live without. And so greedy on trees, if you want multiple, you have to grind for few hours. Would be okay if we had to do fate once then could buy everything via gil, but it's clearly made with intent to make tree farm harder to prevent hoarding as much as possible to ensure mog station sales of these trees will have a good rate.

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The art of over exagerating. "A chore". "grid for few hours". This is nothing like that.

Fates spawn every 4 minutes and last 3. It's 15 fates an hour, so 60 certificates, or 20 trees an hour.

With 1h15 of fate I had every reward + 10 trees. I don't see that as a chore or that hard.

I might go get a few more trees, but I don't expect to stash 100 of them.

If your plan is to resell some in the future, I find it totally fair that you have to work for them.

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The art of over exagerating. "A chore". "grid for few hours". This is nothing like that.

Fates spawn every 4 minutes and last 3. It's 15 fates an hour, so 60 certificates, or 20 trees an hour.

With 1h15 of fate I had every reward + 10 trees. I don't see that as a chore or that hard.

I might go get a few more trees, but I don't expect to stash 100 of them.

If your plan is to resell some in the future, I find it totally fair that you have to work for them.

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Every 9 minutes. Doesn't matters though how often it is, it's SE's greedy approach that they don't want to just give people what they want and want to deter farming as much as possible to shove it into mog station that irritates me. At least make furniture tradeable?

The fate lasts 180 sec with ~240 sec break.
- 6 runs -> 24 certificates in (18+20) ~38 min
- 24 certificates are enough for 1 copy of every item and 3 trees.
- 12 certificates buy every not-housing item, thus an alt needs ~17 mins.

The Valentione patisserie event lasted ~11 minutes + queue; the number of chocolates could vary from 150 to 0.

Conclusion? Little lady's time consuming only if you have many houses to decorate.
Imo, the difference is that the patisserie required a little strategy and the music was more engaging, so it was less soporific.

While I don't think it's as good as Valentione, I'm still happy for the mini-game's decent downtimes it provide to let me chat with my friend and other player alike at the location. I only wanted 3 trees and everything else so it took me about 45m'ish to clear the event without skipping anything + all the extra work aftermath.

I think the only 'bad' are the story.. which was a bit on meh side imo, and the shirt lol. It's basically the same oversized neotunics they gave us in Gold Saucer/elsewhere but with the idols faces slapped on it. They didn't even gave us the regular nor tight fitted this time. I only pick them up because they're armoire-able.

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While I agree with almost everything you said, I do think the currency is a little too low. You'd need 18 certificates to get everything, I'm getting 4 certificates for a gold completion rating. Feels a little on the low side to me, personally considering I want a lot of the trees as well.

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I think you should be able to just talk to the NPC and select "no, I don't wish to do more fates," and then the NPC just lets you take anything you want without having to farm the certificates ...

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I think you should be able to just talk to the NPC and select "no, I don't wish to do more fates," and then the NPC just lets you take anything you want without having to farm the certificates ...

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No, thanks.

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Cute event. More interactive seasonal events please!

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This!

Sorry, but I'm going to acknowledge the fact that the Devs seem to have actually listened to feedback here. There were a LOT of complaints, on various platforms, pertaining to the seasonal events all following the pattern of 'talk to NPC-A who sends you to talk to NPC-B, C and D and then report back to NPC-A.

I mean, recently, we've had:
- The Starlight Stalls
- The resort 'fun' ship for Moonfire Faire
- A version of Haukke Manor for All Saint's Wake
- The Pâtisserie for Valentione's Day
- The current (at the time of this post) Little Ladies Day 'support your favourite'

All which add something extra to the events.

I, for one, am looking forward to seeing if they add something new to Hatching-tide.

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I, for one, am looking forward to seeing if they add something new to Hatching-tide.

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That reminds me of the Tonberry themed one they did one year.

It was legitimately surprising seeing so many people in an ARR zone that wasn't related to a hunt train.

My only “complaint”… I wish the emotes threw stars at your target like they did in the Fate! T.T

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I mean I'd much rather have done the cake event multiple times for Valentine than do this "fate" over and over. It's more about fun than it is about rewards. Spamming glowstick emotes onto NPCs over and over is not very engaging. I agree it's nice to do event stuff for a while as opposed to one and done, but it should be fun, and this one, to me at least, isn't very fun.

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This is my sentiment as well. The event was "okay;" certainly more effort went into it than their usual 'run around Gridania talking to 4 NPCs about a 'problem' that's solved in 5 minutes.' But I only found it to be slightly better than those 10-minute "events." But still, better.

The rewards are pretty varied, I'll give them that. I still think the T-shirts are lazy in more ways than one, but I suppose it matches what they wanted to go for with this particular Little Ladies' Day- which is modern, glowstick-waving fans at a concert.

The whole FATE/event is a callback to years ago when we used the first set of glowstick emotes to cheer-on the idols during a FATE in a similar fashion, so, it's hard to be too critical of it for that...

Having said that though, I still find that this event pales in comparison to their legacy Halloween instanced duties, instanced Valentione duties (especially having just come from the more fun/involved patisserie duty), and even various older outdoor FATEs like the mochi-pounding New Years one, or the ones that utilized event mount's special actions. Compared to all of those, this is barely a pulse-check; not engaging or fun at all.

I suppose there's something to be said about having a 0-stress, easy event FATE that's more involved than simply talking to NPCs (and gives you reasons to run it repeatedly), but honestly, I found it very mediocre and would have preferred to have reasons to run 'fun' events like the Valentione's patisserie duty multiple times to collect everything the same way this 2-minute FATE (that doesn't feel engaging beyond some simple point-and-click tablet game for preschoolers) asks of players wanting to collect everything and then some...

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This is my sentiment as well. The event was "okay;" certainly more effort went into it than their usual 'run around Gridania talking to 4 NPCs about a 'problem' that's solved in 5 minutes.' But I only found it to be slightly better than those 10-minute "events." But still, better.

The rewards are pretty varied, I'll give them that. I still think the T-shirts are lazy in more ways than one, but I suppose it matches what they wanted to go for with this particular Little Ladies' Day- which is modern, glowstick-waving fans at a concert.

The whole FATE/event is a callback to years ago when we used the first set of glowstick emotes to cheer-on the idols during a FATE in a similar fashion, so, it's hard to be too critical of it for that...

Having said that though, I still find that this event pales in comparison to their legacy Halloween instanced duties, instanced Valentione duties (especially having just come from the more fun/involved patisserie duty), and even various older outdoor FATEs like the mochi-pounding New Years one, or the ones that utilized event mount's special actions. Compared to all of those, this is barely a pulse-check; not engaging or fun at all.

I suppose there's something to be said about having a 0-stress, easy event FATE that's more involved than simply talking to NPCs (and gives you reasons to run it repeatedly), but honestly, I found it very mediocre and would have preferred to have reasons to run 'fun' events like the Valentione's patisserie duty multiple times to collect everything the same way this 2-minute FATE (that doesn't feel engaging beyond some simple point-and-click tablet game for preschoolers) asks of players wanting to collect everything and then some...

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Don't forget the rising event where it was a small retailing of the end of 1.0.

Frankly something more would be awesome. But for the moment I'm just 'happier' it's not "talk to NPC 1 2 3 4, all amounting to 10-15 minutes then finish". Low bar, I know. Lmao.

I really like holidays events and very glad the differ every year so we won’t see the same event. But I believe there is room to improve and really hope developers will listen community.

I like that we are getting more Mini-games with these events, like making the cakes and the fates. I don't care too much for the rewards at all but i still find myself joining the crowd when the fate pops.

Didn't like this one, all this k-pop fan business is really not my cup of tea. Neither are the shirts.
But at least it had some interactive elements, so I won't complain.

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Didn't like this one, all this k-pop fan business is really not my cup of tea. Neither are the shirts.

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To be fair it's not kpop but exactly like the japanese idols and their fans that would wear shirts like that, and cheers a lot with glowstick or even without. It's been like that in japanese culture for years, way before kpop even starts to be popular a couple of years ago. :P

And I really don't think that kpop fans act like that (but I don't really listen to that so I don't know), but when I see that it really feels japanese for me and not korean xD

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This throw me back years ago when I was farming a similar event for a similar sakura tree.

While it's not an instance game like the one before, having to do a fate is perfectly acceptable (and used to be done too in some event in ARR/HW).

Some won't like it, it's sure. But it's still way better than what we used to have for a couple of years. Personnally, I enjoy it.

Also, thanks for not giving too many currency at once for this one. We can actually do it a couple of time ! This is exactly what we needs from event, having some small mini game to do and the possibility of farming those.

Please keep going on that way for the next events :) I can't wait to see a "parkour" game like we had in the past for a summer event on the beach of Costa del Sol!

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Meanwhile, I'm standing here looking at the Tabletop piece and sobbing under my desk. Minfilia.... ;-;

Nice if you like that sort of thing but I have never been one for standing round doing a glow stick emote lol so it was torture for me >.<

I do think it is good if you like it but just not my thing and the temu top omg my eyes where bleeding and then they made me wear one QQ

I did like the housing items but not sure I cba getting the rewards I know I don't want the tops so that saves me some tokens lol

But after all it is just a bit of fun ^o^

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To be fair it's not kpop but exactly like the japanese idols and their fans that would wear shirts like that, and cheers a lot with glowstick or even without. It's been like that in japanese culture for years, way before kpop even starts to be popular a couple of years ago. :P

And I really don't think that kpop fans act like that (but I don't really listen to that so I don't know), but when I see that it really feels japanese for me and not korean xD

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Yeah sorry. I'm old, and this modern asian music stuff looks all the same to me :)
Maybe when next year they make me throw bats at a stage, and hand out some Ozzy or Lemmy t-shirts as rewards, I might be more inclined to gather them all. :D

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Yeah sorry. I'm old, and this modern asian music stuff looks all the same to me :)
Maybe when next year they make me throw bats at a stage, and hand out some Ozzy or Lemmy t-shirts as rewards, I might be more inclined to gather them all. :D

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That sounds like a good event :D I am also old :P

It would be more fun if it was quicker , more randomized with glowsticks stacking a skill set to craft a random combo.
It's too slow , repetetive and again it doesn't innovate anything.
Everything does feel the same around.

Is a nice event - I enjoy it. I just do one or two fates a day and will eventually get all the trees I want.

Not interested in the shirts so that saves me tickets I don't need.

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Maybe when next year they make me throw bats at a stage, and hand out some Ozzy or Lemmy t-shirts as rewards, I might be more inclined to gather them all. :D

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An event where we launch stuffed animals/minions at people or things could be amusing. Ooh, Hatching-tide is coming up right? Give us a "Rabbit of Caerbannog" emote that works like the Angelo Cannon.

https://media1.tenor.com/m/MgsDjWU8c...angelo-ff8.gif

Who or what we shoot it at is up to them, but I want a bunny bazooka that leaves nearby NPCs either terrified or delighted.

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Another chore that we could live without. And so greedy on trees, if you want multiple, you have to grind for few hours. Would be okay if we had to do fate once then could buy everything via gil, but it's clearly made with intent to make tree farm harder to prevent hoarding as much as possible to ensure mog station sales of these trees will have a good rate.

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It was very dull when we had to do these events with just talking to a few NPCs, and you quickly forgot about those events. I would say that the recent two events were more memorable because of the addition of these activities.

I did some testing on my alts and you can be pretty lazy and get gold.

Only want to spam one color? That works.

Only want to use the glowsticks for your fav? That works.

Hit 8 NPC accurately and then go afk for the next 2 minutes? That works too.

The only way to "fail" is to only hit 1-3 NPCs (i.e. join too late for any more.) If you can get at least 4, you get silver.