Why is Heavensturn Always So Terrible?

[Titor]

The rear end on the hats this year are preeettttyyy detailed... Yeah, not planning on wearing them, they went right into storage.

[MistyMew]

it was quick, which is ok, hats are just not my personal taste...at all, but the little doll furniture piece is quite cute, bought a few of those for when they up the item limit

[Savvy]

I wish we got the kites I saw around town instead. Could pull it out and hold it and have a cute little moogle or chocobo kite in the air.. Got some butt hats instead.

PS: Can we please start seeing some holiday decorations in Ishgard?! It doesn't matter that they're in the middle of a war, we saw in the Christmas video that they could take some time to celebrate and relax, so can they stop being ignored when it comes to the holiday events? I'm pretty sure they of all could use some cheer and festivities.

[AlphaFox]

I admit it was very lack luster but I did like the fate, it was a nice change of pace to the deliver x number of items. Wouldn't argue with seeing another fate similar to it.

[HaelseMikiro]

I admit it was very lack luster but I did like the fate, it was a nice change of pace to the deliver x number of items. Wouldn't argue with seeing another fate similar to it.

Absolutey!! Considering that Fates/Leves received ZERO love with HW, seeing a single FATE being different from any of the ones in 2.0 is a breath of fresh air. Not that I plan on holding that breath until the next time something good like that happens, I'm like to die

P.S. I guess the Darkscale fate series does get some uniqueness points.

[Sicno]

I dunno what to think of the helmets (lolmonkeybutt), but I found this abomination waiting for me in the FC house when I logged on:



I'm not sure who's more scarred for life, me or Bahamut. o.O

Oh wow, this just saved the event for me I had no idea those dolls could do that

[The_Last_Dragoon]

The real question we should be asking ourselves is "what will they do when they run out of animals from the Chinese Zodiac?"

[Colorful]

The real question we should be asking ourselves is "what will they do when they run out of animals from the Chinese Zodiac?"

Repeat them? They could always design the helmets differently.

Regardless, I don't see the game lasting 12 years, at least not 12 years of active development before Yoshida moves onto FFXVII Online or whatever.

[Preypacer]

I find almost all the events in FFXIV to be pretty lackluster.

It's sad to say, because events in FFXI were so much more elaborate and thought-out. You didn't finish them in 10 minutes, and that was it.

One event that stands out was where you had to team up with at least one player representing each race/gender (so, 7 unique players in total). Once teamed up, a NPC would reduce you both to level 1, and teleport you to a random high level (50+) area (Ifrit's Cauldron, Den of Rancor, etc), where you'd each be given permanent sneak, invis and deodorize (unless you canceled them or left the zone on foot). While there, you each had to wander around and look for a secret item, depicted as a ? on the ground. Then you had to find each other and exchange these items. At that point, you'd be ported back out of the dungeon and returned to your normal level, etc. Successfully doing so with one player of each race/gender would yield you some nice rewards (don't recall what they were now.. we're talking over 10 years ago, and my memory isn't that specific lol).

I'm pretty sure there was a time limit on it, too, so you couldn't just take forever. There was some urgency to it.

It was terrifying, even though you knew you were "safe" as long as you stayed invised/sneaked/deodorized... but it was also a lot of fun, and was a great way to get people to team up and talk and meet other players in-game. XI was big on introducing content to bring players together all around, not only for doing quests or xp'ing, etc. I'd met a few people during that event whom became and remained friends for the next 7+ years that I played.

I remember another event that wasn't seasonal, but was related to unlocking outpost warps on each server. Treants with a ton of HP were released into various zones, and players had to work together to whittle their HP down. Again, a fun way to bring people together to cooperate in a mutual goal.

There's others that I can't even recall exact details, but which were just as well thought out. I remember really looking forward to the events in XI, be it seasonal or otherwise. I was always eager to see what crazy, imaginative ideas SE had come up with this time. By comparison, XIV's events are just so uninspired and dull, for the most part - I did rather enjoy the summer event.

Would love to see them put the kind of imagination and time into XIV's events as they had in XI.

Ah well.. just one more thing to add to the list of areas I personally feel XIV could use a lot of love and attention.

[dinnertime]

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FFXIV does get some engaging events every now and then, Like in 2015 it's the summer event, easter event and the girls day event, other than that they're all completed under 10 minutes, which makes me believe that I should not have expectations in these events to be any fun any more.