Lightning EVENT is BIG Disappointment for me !

[Khaleon]

The FATE system would have been fine if SE had just put a little more effort forth. When Defiance released and the cross game event happened in Rift, you didn't see the Hellbug rift spawn in only 1-2 zones. It had a chance to be ANY fire rift in ANY zone. That meant you could get lucky and run into the rift at lvl 6 or lvl 46, the difference being just how much the hellbugs hurt when they hit you. In either case, the chance to get a green or blue text hellbug mount or companion (minion) was the same. The hellbug rift has also stayed as a permanent type of possible fire rift players could encounter, so even after the event was over, the chance to get the hellbug mounts and companion is still there. Of course the FATE system is a very immature version of the rift system, with lot of things that made rifts work missing from FATEs.

No MMO has had events that have not been busy on the first day of release; a general rule of thumb is that you should always expect people to devour the newly added content as fast as possible. Even AC1/AC2 which used to have monthly major content updates couldn't keep up with demand (although the GM ran events were amazingly fun, but you don't see those in MMO these days hardly anymore). It is worse in FFXIV than in others as FFXIV pushes you fast and hard through levels, and then leaves you with little new content, so this Lightning FATE is the first morsel of content a lot of 50+ players have seen in weeks and in some cases months.

[Wobble]

Once again SE drops the ball, are you really surprised?

[Meimei]

Not just saying this because I'm bitter from only having seen Lightning pop ONCE out of several hours of hunting FATEs (already a loathsome activity) and got bronze due to overcrowding, so didn't get anything.

Why couldn't they utilize the Guildhest system for this or other events? All guildhests take place in instanced versions of various locations across the world, utilize Duty Finder/Level Sync and would easily allow people to get a full experience fighting alongside Lightning in an "epic" battle with only 4-8 people. It'd last more than 5 seconds and be much more memorable than standing around waiting for random spawns within random spawns. (She doesn't always appear in the relevant FATEs.)

Always amazes me how SE's own paid developers can't think of more adequate solutions than 3rd parties sometimes can.

[SirSaber]

What did you all except ?
Some godly FATE quest ?

It's just a little something for the fans to get costumes, that's all it is really.

[Felis]

You just gave me flashbacks to "It's only beta phase 2/3/4/open/first day/week/month/2ndmonth, chill out this should be expected".

Fix is coming with 2.1 ^^

Do lightning event day one and complain about too many people...

Yes, this is also a part of the problem. I start to camp the fates tomorrow, not today ^^

[Tupsi]

I think SE should use this and pervious events as a lesson not to use fates for any kind of event. It doesn't work in any game IMO.

They could have just copied FFXI with the way they did some events - Too bad though the very vocal XIV community would rally to sue SE or something for copying something from their successful MMO. You know they could have made it BCNM style, but XIV's infrastructure seems to be a bit weird even compared to their 2000 PS2 MMORPG's.

[SnickleWhiskers]

as mentioned in the other thread

Did someone point out Snow's hats are missing?

Edit: I should prolly post source http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/pr/blog/000517.html

they better not be the hairs (lightning wig/snow's hat) we unlock for the barber >_>

[Lord_Zlatan]

What did you all except ?
Some godly FATE quest ?

It's just a little something for the fans to get costumes, that's all it is really.

And I'm sure that for the first day of a 4 day event thats what it is supposed to be.

As I said in an earlier post... poor choice to use FATEs as the basis for this event. If they were to do that, then the whole thing should have been new FATEs that would at the very least be something different to see.

Yet again, the event is not nearly over. 3 more installments, so we can't really pass judgement on the overall implementation of it at this point.

[ashikenshin]

And I'm sure that for the first day of a 4 day event thats what it is supposed to be.

you do know this phase lasts until nov 9 right? you can probably do all the even nov 8 and get no competition whatsoever.

ignorance can be a curse sometimes

[Felis]

And I'm sure that for the first day of a 4 day event thats what it is supposed to be.

14th november - 9th december is not 4 days