Bring back login events

[Neo_Genesis]

What if our character's happened to "dream" themselves into other major happenings in the Final Fantasy Universe? This could include any of the major storyline points in FFI-FFXIII, helping out for the battle, and receiving some "memento" of sorts that appears in your inventory after completing the event? It could also be completely optional. You log in and it first shows your character, asleep in it's bed and say "It seems that you are having a dream. Enter the dream realm?" and clicking "Yes" would take you to whatever world and storyline event is taking place in your mind!

[EdwinLi]

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That would be nice.

I, however, would be interested in them having our log in dreams about the events of 1.0 so new players of the game can get up to speed about what happened before 2.0 through personal experience with newly remastered 1.0 cutscenes.

or

have out character have dreams of the events during the 5 year gap between 1.0 and 2.0 so we learn more about what happened in that 5 year time skip.

or

have login events serve as a Mini- origin story providing dream cutscenes that show how our character ended up where they began in the intro of the main storyline with legacy story covering what the Legacy players did to end up where they are in the End of the Era trailer and having New Adventurer cover where they come from.

First cutscene for New Adventurer has the new adventurer encounter a adventurer who ask him or her about where he or she is from furing the time before your character began his adventurer and from the answer the next cutscene shown in next login would show the New Adventurer at their home and go deeper from there through dialogue choices such as if a NPC ask you if they remember them you are given a choice that will determine if that NPC is a brother or sister, friend, rival, boyfriend or girlfriend, or ....(for a random choice of these options)

[Unscene]

Nightmare video if anyone was curious.

http://youtu.be/ft8fqSDVnuQ

That's what you get for sleeping in your armor.

[Bracken]

Hopefully they could'a been pushing this back until Housing was released for a nice perk, seeing as they are more housing focused, I hope if you log out in your Companies Housings bed, that you remain there in the bed to other players,

Permanent Marker (Can I Have it?)

[Pandastirfry]

The "Log in Events" from 1.0 were tied to something very specific, they weren't just a "hey this'll be cool" they furthered the story of Meteor and while showing Squares usual penchant for ham handed metaphor and writing they at least felt like something unique. they would need to be tied to something big in the main story and one time only (like the 1.0 ones) or otherwise it would most likely become an annoying thing most people would try to avoid rather than be excited for.

[Tahldon]

Oh yeah, I definitely remember these. They were pretty awesome, indeed. If I remember correctly there were a few different ones.

Not only this, but when we woke up, we could check the bed and receive an item pertaining to the dream, too. Super fun stuff.

I wonder whatever happened with all of that type of stuff... The devs were really on top of things around the closing months of 1.0. There were lots of little treats as such. I'm hoping that when the team gets into the stride of things with 2.0, they'll start bringing this sort of thing back. This, and GMs popping up from time to time to chit-chat/RP with the local populous.

I do wonder though... if FFXIV has jails like before.

[Pandastirfry]

Oh yeah, I definitely remember these. They were pretty awesome, indeed. If I remember correctly there were a few different ones.

Not only this, but when we woke up, we could check the bed and receive an item pertaining to the dream, too. Super fun stuff.

the dreams that gave you specfic items in your bed were text only, (Such as, "You had a dream you dropped a X crystal and it shattered" would net I think 6 of X shards, and "You had a dream you caught a glimmering fish" or something like that would net you a grilled carp but there were not cut scenes to go with them) otherwise I think, Story wise there were.... 2? 3? I remember one for Gawyn the Ganet, and the one for Meteor and that was it.

[Hanemakikaze]

You know what would be really awesome?

If when you log in, you can randomly get queued into a special Duty Finder group. You and seven other completely random people just wake up in a nightmare together and have to beat Diabolos. Not as a serious event of course, more like what Odin and Behemoth are now (purely for vanity) and a "proper" Diabolos fight can come later like how we're meant to get a proper Odin fight at some point.

Would be all the more epic if they don't even mention it at all and people just stumble across the fight at random. Even though I generally hate the Duty Finder, I'd actually find being thrown into something like this, purely at random, to be a lot of fun. They'd have to give it some tangible rewards though, otherwise people will just leave... Guess they could always just make it soloable...

Going to have to go with big fat no on this. It only sounds good on paper, not in actual execution. PSO2 has something almost exactly what you're talking about but instead of getting it at login it happens randomly before you start a mission, your party gets abducted and you have to escape the place on a time limit. The randomness of this encounter while very neat and fun at first increasingly becomes nuisance as time goes on, even if you could just drop out if you wanted I'd rather not have to deal randomness out of nowhere in the first place when the game has no idea what plans you have.