Why must people complain about Yo-Kai?

[Altena]

That being said, I would love to experience the Shantotto and Lightning Returns event. But we have Yo-Kai, and it's giving players something to do. At this point in the development cycle, is it really a good idea to pull some staff away to work on a brand new event while we're gearing up for 4.1? Or is it easier to just throw in an event - I'm not yelling, but I'm putting this in caps to emphasize a point - THAT WAS MENTIONED ONLY JUST A FEW DAYS AGO, PROBABLY SOMETHING THAT WASN'T EVEN PLANNED ORIGINALLY.

No, no one is "forced" to do anything. It's a figure of speech. I started it last time but quickly gave up. I am likely not going to bother with it this time either.
However FORCING the rewards behind a horrible grindy RNG during an event like this is just poor design.
Hell, you could be that unlucky soul who grinds for 3hrs a day during the event and you still miss out on minions/weapons because RNG is RNG.

Who said anything about designing a new event?
I mean we just had the summer event, followed quickly by the anniversary event (that's still running). It's not like we haven't had events raining down on us.. If anything they should have waited a little while since we often go on long streaks where there are no events running.
It's not hard to make some minor tweaks such as significantly increase the drop rate or just add a 100% drop reward that you need 5x of. That's hardly designing a new event - just a fairly minor tweak.

Most people are just saying how events like this should be run. Yokai was just poorly designed.
People complained a lot about it back then, and people will complain a lot about it now.
Just because it's been ages since it was running originally - doesn't make it any less sucky.

The lightning event will never come back.
The rewards are in the mog station and if Lightning returns (har har), SE will literally be reducing their potential profits.

[LalaRu]

Because ... I don't want ... this nonsense, I'm an adult!

Don't participate. Problem solved.

[TaleraRistain]

But if the drop rates are the same as the last event, i dont see what is so awful about it. Judging by what i got today, even if the last weapons cost more than the first ones, two months seems more than enough to get all the items at a casual pace in the long run, by dedicating it one hour here and here. Seems like to me that some people burned out themselves by wanting to go way too fast.

Now that I've had some time with it, I can say that it looks like they WAY upped the drop rates. You were looking at over 1000 fates to get your 222 medals before. I'm picking up weapons I didn't get and I'm at 15 per now. I got 2 1/2 weapons in 5 hours. You could go that long just getting a handful of legendary medals before. So, thankfully, it looks like they did at least listen to one complaint.

[KaivaC]

So...I will concede that maybe I underestimated the pain you guys felt over Yo-Kai and FATEs in general. Honestly, I don't know a thing about Yo-Kai, I just like having new stuff. FATEs...I dunno...I still see it as a good chance to level my alt classes, though for those of you not interested, I can definitely understand the irritation. Maybe...just maybe...there is a point to the complaints.

(I'm also engaged in a heated debate on a different subject, so I can't really fight on two fronts haha)

[Nuna]

Don't participate. Problem solved.

They were joking.

[Zhamkyong]

The Lightning event was rerun. I'm pretty sure the Shantotto and DQX events were rerun as well.
I think the second FFXI event was the only tie-in that hasn't come back again.

If they want to bring any of those back again though, I'd be down with that.

Oh, I was not aware of that o.o then I think I picked up a bad example.

[uvuvwevwevweonyetenyevweugwemu]

It's because people don't know how much hours per day they need to spend on this event.
Simple really, put trade the regular medal for the legendary medal and there would be less complaining.
Grinding is fine, grinding to be lucky is not.

[Spiroglyph]

I just wish they would add higher level FATEs to the list tbh. Last yeat I didn't bother because I had everything at 60 already and was too busy to sink dozens of hours for this, only doing it this year because I spent months longingly lookig at the glowy phantom mount I couldn't be arsed to getting.
Would be nice if I could get some decent exp on classes I want to level, though...

[Rinuko]

I don't really play very actively (waiting on 4.1, since for me there is nothing to do) and seeing they just re-used the exact same event as last year and NOT making weapons for Sam and Rdm it utterly Lazy. Not the normal dyable gear lazy, this is a new low imo

[Airget]

I've completed the event when it last came out and I"m surprised they didn't attempt to expand on locations where you could do FATEs. Shame for those leveling, they can't really use the events in conjunction with the process unless they are taking a job to 50. Would of been nice since it could breath life into FATE in all the zones.