Permanent collaborations

[Enkidoh]

There is a reason why those crossover events were only temporary and most specifically will not be coming back, and that was because the whole point of the crossovers in the first place was to celebrate certain milestones being reached in those specific games (the FFXI events were to celebrate FFXI's eleventh anniversary of service for the Shantotto event and the official winding up of it's storyline with the Rhapsodies of Vana'diel storyline with that story's main character Iroha respectively; and the FFXIII event was to coincide with the then current release of the second FFXIII sequel: Lightning Returns ~ FFXIII. Likewise the Dragon Quest event was to celebrate DQX's first anniversary of service.).

Hence because all these milestones are long since past, there is no reason to run them, and with the adding of the items they rewarded to the Mogstation, it's pretty conclusive those events are gone and never coming back (it's the same reason you will never see the special events that were run in 1.0 to coincide with the Calamity return, it would invalidate their very reason to be run originally in the first place).

[Belisaire]

As someone who has been around since 1.0, got all the exclusives there, and have done every temporary event in ARR to date--I openly welcome everyone being able to enjoy the same experience with the game that I have. I think these things should be permanent or failing that, have frequent re-runs of the event. It's not uncommon for these sorts of things to get multiple runs and ultimately, if it gets someone to enjoy something new in this game then I say they are doing a good job.

Certain things like the Calamity obviously can't happen again because it was an entirely different game. But I wouldn't care if people could get the Goobbue and/or Legacy Chocobo mount if they had to do something else. Exclusives are just fake badges of honor, in my opinion. I miss the days when the concept didn't really exist.

[Lambdafish]

Personally I wouldn't mind this if it was limited to just games from the Final Fantasy series, especially given how long ago it's been since the Shantotto event was around. It'd make for another good way of honoring other elements of past games.

As for other series like Dragon Quest or Yo-Kai, I'd say no to just because it feels like it'd draw too much focus away from the Final Fantasy series, which is what I think the game should honor more.

Garo is permenant, and is not Final Fantasy. If speculation is also to be believed, monster hunter may also be permanent.

[Lambdafish]

The MHW crossover is also looking like it won't be a "do this crappy fate for this reason" like other events. If it's a trial there's no reason to go to the lengths of making a whole trial just to have it go away forever in a month.

Exactly, whereas fates clutter the overworld and in a way 'take over' the overworld for a period of time. That is not well suited to a permanent collaboration, and would have to be redesigned if put back into the game (at which point, why not just put the resources into a new event). Also, aren't the items on the mogstation? That seems like the easiest solution.

[Pastahnak]

Exactly, whereas fates clutter the overworld and in a way 'take over' the overworld for a period of time. That is not well suited to a permanent collaboration, and would have to be redesigned if put back into the game (at which point, why not just put the resources into a new event). Also, aren't the items on the mogstation? That seems like the easiest solution.

Ya sorry misread ur post, thought u said the opposite :P

[ManuelBravo]

Lazy... I see how quickly ppl always judges. Not everyone were lazy (If I were, I wouldn't got the Yokai 2nd mount at the event's first time). Maybe some ppl could be lazy, but MAYBE (like me with the Shantotto event) some pplstarted to play the game after the last time an event took place. Ppl who would like to play it not just for the rewards, but for the experience of the story. I could buy the Shantotto minion from MS yeah, but it would just be a doll delivered by a Moogle...

I'm asking to turn these collabs into permantent, just like the Garo, or how it looks the MH will be. I don't think collab should be the same word as "seasonal". If you read carefully, I tried to avoid saying the word "event". We already have the seasonal ones (Moonfire, Heavensturn, Hatching...), so I ask to make just for the collabs to be turned from events to permanent, with new rewards for those which rewards are already in MS.

Sounds more like a personal problem. If you play the game should be no reason to miss it unless do to RL. Otherwise website still up with updates and events -.-;

Certain things I could understand PvP Garo is one. Things tied to other things like fates are really just a waste of time. Focus on new content instead. What is the point anyways? Just to collect things? Collaboration events ( hence limited time ) are used to entice consumers to rejoin. So yes being lazy would be one reason. Been since v1.0 but hey I still love this game and FFXI. Maybe in the future once it's dead it may happen just to keep people playing.

[Kazrah]

Garo is permenant, and is not Final Fantasy. If speculation is also to be believed, monster hunter may also be permanent.

Pretty the only reason why as to both is probably due to the sheer amount of resources required for both of those events. I'm personally not a fan because it puts more attention on games not made by Square-Enix (and also because that Garo gear is ugly as sin), but I can understand that with all the work involved to make them happen that they would want to make them permanent.

[Maero]

Certainly not Yo-kai, that happened twice and the 2nd time it came it stayed multiple months.
While i really did love Lightning Returns it was to coincide with the game so i do not think collab events should be permanent.
Only thing that seems permanent is the Garo stuff atm and Monster Hunter we are getting a 8 man fight which is suppose to remain from what i heard.