Seasonal Event Love

This thread is for the discussion of seasonal/holiday events in FFXIV and other MMOs. This thread is not a discussion about how well the dev team is using their time in relation to the events or other content.

What kind of holiday/seasonal events do you want to see in FFXIV and what content would you deem acceptable for them? Also what are your thoughts on past events and how could they be improved? What seasonal/holiday events from any MMO were your favorite?

Personally I was okay with some of the "Bell" events we had though I know they can do much better in the years to come. Getting a gear set for the Winter event was pretty nice and in contrast getting just a few food items from the Valentine's Day event was kind of lame.

I see the events coming around this year simply as placeholders so we know what events to expect each year. I certainly hope that the team will come up with some great ideas for some spectacular events in the coming years.

I would love to see a halloween event, that would allow us to dress in Costumes from other Final Fantasy games. Like Kain's dragoon outfit, or Warrior of light's.

I like them, i love when you get unique gear/casual clothing.

Mini games would be fun!
I would much appreciate life events, there should be festivals where people dress up, gather, socialize and maybe take part in some events held by GMs even if its something as simple as making a raze around Uldah
Developer could sometimes hold a short speech or something….
Concerts would be fun!
I would love to have a Opera house that would play all sorts of tracks from all the FF titles.

EDIT:
i did add the ideas in a new thread in the gameplay forum so it does not get lost.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-social-events.

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Originally Posted by Randis

I like them, i love when you get unique gear/casual clothing.

Mini games would be fun!
I would much appreciate life events, there should be festivals where people dress up, gather, socialize and maybe take part in some events held by GMs even if its something as simple as making a raze around Uldah
Developer could sometimes hold a short speech or something….
Concerts would be fun!
I would love to have a Opera house that would play all sorts of tracks from all the FF titles.

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Epic ideas particularly your last one. I remember when I played on private RO servers developers would have events like that. I really enjoyed then, they'd spawn monsters to fight and it was chaos.

I'd like the dress up. But it'd have to be later on, because having Kain in this game would make me depressed that there aren't moves in the game as cool as the ones he does.

Yeah make it a one-piece body gear part like torso.

Love the concert idea. Like once a year the Music director, I forgot how to spell his name so I won't shame him with my pitiful attempt, could make an orchestrated theme for this game's music for 1 time a year.

One of my favorite events from another game was part of the Winter Event in Guild Wars. They had a special PvP field set up for snowball fights which you got some kind of token from for participating. You could then trade these for event gear which interesting.

the only festival I like is Christmas

I think they should keep advancing the "Year of Animal Armor" started this year with the Usagi Kabuto.

Each year on the New Years they release an Armor helm based off the animal for that year (Rabbit for 2011) Then every other month they release Body, Hand, Leg and Feet, to accompany the armor. This way the Celebration for that year lasts the whole year. They can blend it in with another ceremony or event or try and keep it separate. But I think it would be an interesting thing. Especially if at Newyears the next year you have a chance to get the items you are missing from last years event.

One thing that throws me off about in-game events is that in real world time, the event goes on for maybe fourteen dayys.

In-game time, Eorzeans celebrate the event for an entire in-game year. I don't really know what moon or day these holidays are really supposed to be happening on.

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Originally Posted by Arcell

One of my favorite events from another game was part of the Winter Event in Guild Wars. They had a special PvP field set up for snowball fights which you got some kind of token from for participating. You could then trade these for event gear which interesting.

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Snowball fights in GW2 should be epic.

But on the subject of FFXIV.. There should be more fireworks! Either for New Years or for a "Summer Festival", similar to FFXI.

There probably will be some tanabata event, knowing it was important in XI, and the game is japaneese... what i woud like to see as seasonal events?

well i would love class based events, like harvest event for botanist in summer, warm hats crafting event for weavers in winter and so on. Winter event could be multiclass, like weavers craft hats, botanists log for fire wood, alhemist make pills for cold, and such.

There are some crazy awesome ideas here.
I think it's actually fun to design them and to think of funny crazy things to do, so I got a little disapointed with valentine's day's event. The fact that the game is just starting doesn't help. But let's not talk about that.

I'd love to see a snowfight at xmas, and the costume dressup at halloween.

It would be nice if we we could buy/adquire/craft cupid arrows on valentine's days that actually charmed the monsters ;P making little hearts dance around the monsters. Just for fun lol

Or craft a love potion and pour it on chocolates to make a big heart appear above someone's head if he eats it lol

For halloween it would be nice to have a costume contest or a parade for everyone.

Maybe like a pool party in the summer, or a ferry ride where everyone traveled to a paradisic island. Lots of swimsuits and activities to do. ;P

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Originally Posted by Arcell

This thread is for the discussion of seasonal/holiday events in FFXIV and other MMOs. This thread is not a discussion about how well the dev team is using their time in relation to the events or other content.

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It almost feels like you really do have to start threads this way now doesn't it? So sad.

I was not playing at the time of the christmas event unfortunately, so I hope I'm not hoping for something they already did. I know it was a simple thing, but I loved the Jeuno Xmas music. I miss it. I hope they did/will continue to do holiday versions of their own music at least in the major cities during these events.

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Originally Posted by SirEdeonX

There are some crazy awesome ideas here.
I think it's actually fun to design them and to think of funny crazy things to do, so I got a little disapointed with valentine's day's event. The fact that the game is just starting doesn't help. But let's not talk about that.

I'd love to see a snowfight at xmas, and the costume dressup at halloween.

It would be nice if we we could buy/adquire/craft cupid arrows on valentine's days that actually charmed the monsters ;P making little hearts dance around the monsters. Just for fun lol

Or craft a love potion and pour it on chocolates to make a big heart appear above someone's head if he eats it lol

For halloween it would be nice to have a costume contest or a parade for everyone.

Maybe like a pool party in the summer, or a ferry ride where everyone traveled to a paradisic island. Lots of swimsuits and activities to do. ;P

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If they do swimsuits again, I hope the females can get Racer back competition styled one pieces. :/ I'm not a fan of bikini's no matter how good a womans "Beach Body" is.

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Originally Posted by MagicofGaia

I was not playing at the time of the christmas event unfortunately, so I hope I'm not hoping for something they already did. I know it was a simple thing, but I loved the Jeuno Xmas music. I miss it. I hope they did/will continue to do holiday versions of their own music at least in the major cities during these events.

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You would have liked this year's event it was simple but there was holiday music in towns and snowflakes XD

What I didn't like about the bells was that I rarely got what I wanted, I was never a fan of chance drops, whatever the percentage is it's ALWAYS against me I swear! :P I'd rather they make us work fairly to get these items, cooperatively is more fun too imo.

FFXI's events were always fun, but I started playing in 2005 so I don't know what the previous years were like, I do think they will build them up and every year they will add something more. EQ2's holiday events are fun too, a haunted house for Halloween would be so great.

I like everyone's ideas you guys are creative ^_^

beer fest held in eorzeas "harvest" season. the lore is in each city the local alchemist brew new drinks with stuff localy grown and have contests about each brew. what we players get to do is vote on the beer and it becomes an item in game. What we vote on is effects, duration, and boosts. each brew will have differences. for activities is a faireground with sideshow mini games which we earn tokens for items and mats for gear.

I also vote for a hauted house and we play japanese spirit games and as groups go on survival walks in a fatel frame styles woods and house with japanese styled outfits based on the various spirits in japanese lore.

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Originally Posted by Kilta_Firelotus

I also vote for a hauted house and we play japanese spirit games and as groups go on survival walks in a fatel frame styles woods and house with japanese styled outfits based on the various spirits in japanese lore.

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I remember when they did that one event in XI where they sent you off with a friend to scary dungeons as a level 1 level cap and find a ??? in the environment.

I liked the one in FFXI where you had to herd the buffalo's and they could headbut you across the map, that was pretty funny.

Oh and the one where you got the wooden katana and would run super fast.

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Originally Posted by Randis

I like them, i love when you get unique gear/casual clothing.

Mini games would be fun!
I would much appreciate life events, there should be festivals where people dress up, gather, socialize and maybe take part in some events held by GMs even if its something as simple as making a raze around Uldah
Developer could sometimes hold a short speech or something….
Concerts would be fun!
I would love to have a Opera house that would play all sorts of tracks from all the FF titles.

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I love your Opera House idea! That would be pretty awesome.

Holiday style games would be nice, and a halloween event in addition to what we already have would basically cover every holiday i would want/expect them to.(Maybe Mardi Gras or dia de los muertos would be nice)

I'll be honest, I'd really like to see some new gear in future events. It doesn't have to be something epic, but I was pretty happy with the santa suits (so festive!) and the usagi helms (not to my personal taste, but still neat). Perhaps some heart-themed jewelry for valentine's day, or a red rose to tuck behind your character's ear. And some tropical themed items for a summer event would be fun, maybe exotic flower wristlets and crowns and some sort of more light, more brightly colored tunic top.

Maybe some holiday exclusive sidequests would be a neat way to have players get event items. Items could come in more than one rank, so there would be a "go kill stuff to get a neat piece of holiday gear you can use" for everyone. Or heck, it could be just the item (or one of the items) needed to craft the gear, with the crafting rank being about the same as the finished item's rank.

The idea of shows/events sounds fun too! The cities all have amphitheater type places, those would be the perfect venue for a holiday event. Not sure how well that would work with a significantly larger server population, though. xD Parades and costume events sound like a blast as well, though that also sounds more like something that the players would organize.

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Originally Posted by AlexiaKidd

I liked the one in FFXI where you had to herd the buffalo's and they could headbut you across the map, that was pretty funny.

Oh and the one where you got the wooden katana and would run super fast.

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That sounds so much fun :S can't wait for the events in FFXIV to be like that lol

Can't wait for the one year anniversary, maybe they'll revamp everything back to what it was like on release day, and for an entire day if people can do various tasks that were difficult to do(or just took a long time), you get rewarded with various pieces of a set of armor.

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Originally Posted by Randis

I like them, i love when you get unique gear/casual clothing.

Mini games would be fun!
I would much appreciate life events, there should be festivals where people dress up, gather, socialize and maybe take part in some events held by GMs even if its something as simple as making a raze around Uldah
Developer could sometimes hold a short speech or something….
Concerts would be fun!
I would love to have a Opera house that would play all sorts of tracks from all the FF titles.

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Last idea is just fantastic, also if a Developer party of some sort were to happen. Say if it was the anniversary of release of FFXIV or something.

I'm kinda hoping when they start up Fanfests in the US again they do one on the westcoast in Cali, and one on the east coast in Atlanta or somewhere so that people don't have to cross the Mississippi to come see.

January: New Year's event. Content: Maybe fireworks, visit a shrine/temple for event items.
February: Valentine's Day. Content: Delivering Valetines to NPCs/trading Valentines. Get "Valentine" gear.
March: Nothing really I can think of.
April: Egg hunt works. Content: Instead of talking a specific NPC for eggs and trading, they should have a bunch of ??? marks show up all over the world. You could then search these to get the eggs.
May: Spring event. Content: Cherry blossoms and a "picture taking" event. You would be given hints about a certain location and you would have to go and "take a picture" of the area for rewards.
June: No good ideas.
July: Midsummer festival. Content: Fireworks and music. Also should have giant bonfires or a fire festival in general and include something involving dancing. For example, add multiple dances like they did for FFXI. Then you would have to find NPCs and do specific dances or a combination (chain) of dances in the right order.
August: No good ideas.
September: Harvest festival? Content: Autumn looks. Poetry competition. Riddles or puzzles involving poetry.
October: Halloween. Content: Costume items. Trick or Treat (visit different NPCs to collect items... get certain combos for better items).
November: No good ideas.
December: Winter holidays. Content: Dream gear. Deliver presents to NPCs.

I'd very much enjoy more seasonal events based on traditional japanese holidays. I had western holidays events for years and years on other games, so I enjoy quite a lot the "holiday cultural exchange" :D

@Kaedan: March = White Day :D

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Originally Posted by Grit

Snowball fights in GW2 should be epic.

But on the subject of FFXIV.. There should be more fireworks! Either for New Years or for a "Summer Festival", similar to FFXI.

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KEGBRAWL.

I really really really

REALLY

look forward to the Halloween and Summer events in XIV, especially if it means I get a nightmare tunic or a yukata.

I'm a big fan of costume...ey things. lol

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the eerie cloak was awesome in XI. I'd love to see how it looks in XIV.

There are allot of great ideas here and hope this gets some dev attention to. Bells are nice for items but shouldnt be the whole event. I think the snowball fight and opera house are great ideas. I think also with the opera houses they should do plays like the back story of the valentines event in xi and have the audience particapate in some way. Also the opera house can be used for every event. Keep the good ideas coming! Looking forward to reading more ^^.

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Originally Posted by Abriael

I'd very much enjoy more seasonal events based on traditional japanese holidays. I had western holidays events for years and years on other games, so I enjoy quite a lot the "holiday cultural exchange" :D

@Kaedan: March = White Day :D

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I mostly agree with you here. I definitely think that Japanese holidays should have their place (my May, July, and September ideas are based on Japanese holidays) along with western holidays, but I think the best way to go about it is to use Japanese and western holidays as bases and then add a healthy spattering of "Eorzean" theme to it.

I did think of White Day for March, but I was trying to avoid holidays that only existed in one culture or the other. ;)

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Originally Posted by Cairdeas

I remember when they did that one event in XI where they sent you off with a friend to scary dungeons as a level 1 level cap and find a ??? in the environment.

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i loved that. you and your friend were invisable and not only had t find each other but find the ???.
I watch a ton of anime and one think I lkiked is survival walks they did for holloween episodes like in GTO with "the ring/ ringu" parody. Pretty mudch make a deep deep gusgen mines type field/building zone where you must walk (not run) through some wood and the top floor of a house and click the Item. Along the way some stuff jump like phantom npc ala fatal frame where you hear that creepy music and the film grain cs starts. stuff like that to really creep ppl out. another thing is play a japanese candle game where you tell ghost stories and blow out a candle. How they can set it up is you have a somewhat madlib style 5 selection to on how you story will go you select 1of 5 options and see a cs about your choices.

a5t the end once each candle is out (based on how many people in the group. something may or may not happen.

That would be a great idea for the October or November event ^^ I too like the idea of the graveyard walks.

holloween is my fave time if year. I love the lore of it. I also like the japanese take on it also with the candle game. I'm happy they keot the taru taru panic at least for the female lalafell I can't wait to make my character :3

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Originally Posted by Kaedan

I mostly agree with you here. I definitely think that Japanese holidays should have their place (my May, July, and September ideas are based on Japanese holidays) along with western holidays, but I think the best way to go about it is to use Japanese and western holidays as bases and then add a healthy spattering of "Eorzean" theme to it.

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I agree with this, I didn't mean a reproduction of the holidays like they are in the real world. The lore snippets (and illustrations) they put on the lodestone are my favourite parts of seasonal events.

Well thankfully they've already started doing that. Even with Valentine's Day we had our own version with it's own lore and whatnot. I really hope they do more with that event next year.

I for one have become accustomed to the bells and will miss them in upcoming ones...

Damn you, Pavlov!