The (dull) Rising Event *light spoilers*

[Sakuraluna]

The thing is though, it's not even an accurate rendition of what actually happened on the last day in 1.0 from a gameplay perspective anyway. Contrary to what the story says and all the trailers and information released by SE, the last day of 1.0's original service which depicted the day of the Calamity, 1.0 players did not actually directly participate in the Battle of Carteneau (as the Cartenau Flats were actually completely inaccessible and weren't even a zone, just a barely legible note on the Eorzea map).

Instead, 1.0 players were instructed to assemble in the final hour at Camp Brittlebark, a now gone 1.0 aetheryte camp in the equally gone southern portion of Mor Dhona, and fight wave after wave of high-level Garlean soldiers and magitek vanguards (and that was assuming you weren't booted off the server with an error code due to 1.0's unstable server infrastructure, which is what happened to me). This was actually a feint to distract Garlean reinforcements and stop them from reaching the main (inaccessible) fight at Carteneau and overwhelming the Main Host outright and winning the battle for the Garleans.

Ultimately though it ended in failure, as the reinforcements managed to eventually reach the main host in the final moments anyway, which then led into the events of the End of an Era/A New Beginning/Flames of Truth trailers. 1.0 players were just a diversionary tactic during the Calamity, they didn't actually fight at Carteneau - that fighting was done by enlisted Grand Company troops from the three citystates, thus making it rather moot.

You're right, and I have to admit that I always come into this event looking for the 4th wall to take a major beating. My thinking was that, with the Warrior of Light taking center stage in the play (and especially in the reprise with the Wandering Minstrel), it was as much a reference to the game's history as to Eorzea's. Basically a statement that it was the players who saved the realm.

(Sorry for taking so long to reply. I sometimes forget about a thread if I don't look on the forum or see it active for a couple days or so. D: )

[Micromage]

Why do you expect some kinda secret or spoiler in the Rising event?

Um... ya? Last year they spoiled sam/rdm... why not spoil some more.. this game needs to add spoilers to get the hype going! This has been a long, boring, drawn out expansion thus far.

[Mholito]

Um... ya? Last year they spoiled sam/rdm... why not spoil some more.. this game needs to add spoilers to get the hype going! This has been a long, boring, drawn out expansion thus far.

You do realize that was not an actuall confirmation of the upcomming jobs, right? It was just a joke at the fact that they were among the most commonly speculated jobs for 4.0.

[Nachocreech]

Um....could someone update me on what actually happened at 2015 event? Apparently it was amazing?

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Um....could someone update me on what actually happened at 2015 event? Apparently it was amazing?

They broke the 4th wall by having developers avatars in game personally thanking you for supporting them and the game. A whole room was dedicated to it and they made some nods, hints, and in jokes related to the game.

[Enkidoh]

And also it was a subtle reference to FFIV which also had a similar 'Developer's Office' hidden within where the player could speak to npc avatars of the development team. The FFXIV version as Miles stated was full of injokes, meta references and subtle hints at possible future additions to the game (specifically concerning Doomtrain as a possible enemy or minion, and the possible introduction of Samurai (SAM), Blue Mage (BLU) and Red Mage (RDM) Jobs).

And at the end, Naoki Yoshida himself (not the Wandering Minstrel, a fully digitized avatar of Yoshi-P wearing MCH AF) thanked the player for their support and accepted 1.0's failure as SE's own hubris and arrogance, and pledged to ensure that "never happens again." It was a very enjoyable and very heartfelt thankyou to the player community.

Hence it left very big shoes to fill with this year's event, which although was fun, just... lacked that certain 'spirit' to it. Ah well, I guess they can't win it all.

[Micromage]

You do realize that was not an actuall confirmation of the upcomming jobs, right? It was just a joke at the fact that they were among the most commonly speculated jobs for 4.0.

Don't think Yoshi would screw peeps that hard.. specially with how die hard peeps are. Seems like a legit spoiler to me!

[Mholito]

Don't think Yoshi would screw peeps that hard.. specially with how die hard peeps are. Seems like a legit spoiler to me!

He immediately followed by saying it was just idle musings, and not to put too much thought into it.

[Micromage]

He immediately followed by saying it was just idle musings, and not to put too much thought into it.

Yes.. at a 2 year anniversary.. they're gonna spoil SAM/RDM by joking about them being in the game, then not bring them after all.. This was a spoiler to get peeps hyped for sam/rdm in 4.0. I'm guessing you don't want sam/rdm in 4.0... /comfort. It's happening, so deal.

But ya.. back to the actual topic of the 2016 The Rising. Thoughts on the event?

[Micromage]

He immediately followed by saying it was just idle musings, and not to put too much thought into it.

BTW; Idle means not active, or can mean lazy. Musing means absorbed in thought, meditative. An idle musing would simply mean it was a simple thought he was having on the future jobs coming to the game. This is no way means he was just joking about it being a thing. He stated sam/rdm were coming, then joked that you shouldn't go spreading that around... knowing everyone would see this and spread it. He had every reason to spoil sam/rdm coming in 4.0 last year during that event, to build hype, and that's what he did. You're trying to be a Debbie downer, but you failed.