Seasonal events: Underwhelming?

[FlowerPower]

This. Completely this. If SE was producing these amazing, detailed fluff events while leaving exploits, bugs, balance issues in place etc I'd be angry. You can have your amazing fluff events a year from now (sidenote: I love the holiday events, they do add fun variety to the game) when the bugs are smoothed out and there's a range of regular content in place. If they pushed back CT a month just because they decided to produce a Halloween dungeon I'd be more than a little worried about the long term development plan.

Well, I would like to think that the team which develops seasonal events/playerhousing/<insert non-raid content/class development here> is seperate from the crew who deals with exploits, misc bugs, and balance issues.

[Azshara]

Well it is true that are underwhelming.
I didn't love them, and i would like to compare them to those of FF11 which are really great.

[Rannie]

You do know that Christmas wasn't born as the celebration of Christ's birth, right? It was originally celebrating the Winter Solstice. The Church later on claimed the son of God to have been born the 25th December, merely because they wanted to impose religion over pagan festivities.

not just Yule but other winter holidays following around that time as well

http://www.history.com/topics/christmas

and just to let you know those pagan festivals were religious holidays as well ~_^

[Deathgasm]

You do know that Christmas wasn't born as the celebration of Christ's birth, right? It was originally celebrating the Winter Solstice. The Church later on claimed the son of God to have been born the 25th December, merely because they wanted to impose religion over pagan festivities.

Then an other religion having for god a bottle with a brown but powerful against rust containing, arrived and changed again the way we live the Solstice d'Hiver..
But it didn't work that good for Halloween which has a very small impact in my country where we have la Toussaint, catholic, who replaced Samain, the opening of the first month, Samonios, of the new year. But anyway it has nothing to see with Eorzea, nor our ancient gods, nor the catholic religion, nor a beverage from Atlanta or a pumpkin from south america who strangely finished to symbolize an event mostly celebrated by the anglo-saxons.

[MysteriousRonin]

I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.

[Slirith]

THANK YOU!

NCSoft titles are godawful grindfests where more budget went into "purdy graffix" and cash shop bling than it did actual content. (except for City of Heroes but that's because NCSoft pretended it never existed)

And speaking of CoX, they had a damn good Halloween event.

Trick or Treat granted you NPC costumes as a treat or a fight with witches and zombies as a trick. There was a FATE-like event called Zombie Apocalypse where the sky turned red and people teamed up to defeat zombies and with each wave the zombies grew in size and number with the last wave being demon lords.

And the newest event they put in for halloween was a haunted house mission where the final boss was a massive cyborg zombie.

Unfortunately it was shut down last year, but their seasonal events were amazing. I miss it so much.

Just wanted to say that I massively agree lol. I miss City of Heroes/City of Villains

[texhnolyze]

Seriously, just go play GW2 if all you're going to do is constantly complain about XIV and compare it to that game. Jesus Christ.

u mad?
i'm done with GW2 and i've subbed ARR for 3 months, why would i want to go back to GW2?
GW2 has some good points, which FFXIV can consider to apply too
if you think FFXIV is already perfect as it is and complains/feedbacks aren't needed, this game isn't going to last long

[Dyvid]

I too feel underwhelmed with the seasonal event. Town décor and music is good but it's rather lack luster when it comes to actually things to do.

Here is my wish list of things I want to do and have for seasonal events.

Atmosphere:
City / Outpost should have themed related decoration
Cities should have a musical twist based on the event
Environment should reflect the time of year; fall, winter, spring, summer. Nothing over the top but just a slight change

Event:
Event FATE - event related of course
Event Dungeon - Both lv 15 and Hard Mode
Event Trail - Both lv 15 and Hard Mode

Rewards:
Event themed Minion
Event themed Armor / Outfit
Event themed Chocobo Barding
Event themed Weapon
Event themed Emote
Event themed Items

[Spoko]

SE i want my murlock pet now!

Ohh wrong company

[Mezolitik]

My only complaint is the music; it's nice and all, but it's too short and very repetitive.

At least they're gonna kill it soon though. I remember playing Granado Espada at Christmas time. They started playing Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer in cities in November - and left it there until the Valentine's Day event kicked in.