Valentine's event 2019 info released

[Jojoya]

And as we can see, the knife or the gigas sword had no relation to the event. They were just added to make the event rewards dont look so empty. Not everyone owns a plot and not everyone is interested in housing decoration (lets be honest here, nobody cares for your plot except your friends maybe)
Starlight event was not brilliant, but it was a helmet for every playable character. If we remove the sword and knife, well furniture only would of been pretty lame for valentines event.

Willing to bet the knife and sword are more clues about next expansion since that is what the fortune teller is foreshadowing. We'll probably see the gigas and tonberries involved in some fashion.

[Kuturbaev]

Worst event rewards ever...

[Jandor]

In terms of the event I had fun with the actual game portion, the maze and trial concept is fun -

And recycled, it's the same maze as last time.

[BillyKaplan]

And recycled, it's the same maze as last time.

I have mixed feelings about that. I don't mind the actual event content to be recycled - I like the readings, and I like the maze. Always fun to run it with friends for kicks, especially if we're both IC on our characters.
But it is recycled, which only makes all the more obvious how little they invested in this event. There was a very minimal number of NPCs involved, the dialog was short and lackluster, and even their attempt to be 'lol it's not just for couples' fell flat, a forced attempt to be innovative when it would've been a bit more innovative if they had done the ladies properly.
And the weapons... I disagree with the people who said here that it was hard to find the other event vendor. When you pick up the repeatable quest, they tell you about a "fake" fortune teller who's in plain sight when you go to the 'legit' fortune tellers. She tells you about the black boar gate, which you can find on the map. And once there, it's very easy to see the magic pot, and see what it wants for the event items.
But the problem with that is that whatever hopes we had to have a lore reason to why these are the Valentoine's event's awards... died a horrible death. They simply didn't have it in them to invest in this event and probably used existing glamours from something else and slapped them on the event.

[MistyMew]

Not the best ideas for rewards SE

[DevonEllwood]

I finished the event, and maybe it was because I was expecting more, but it's one of the worst ones in recent memory. At least with Heavensturn we know what to expect so there's no disappointment, but the Valentine's events have been one of the consistently better ones. My main issue was how short it was and how it involves random npcs we don't know and won't see again. I liked last years Hatchingtide where there were 12-ish different scenes with npcs we already know. I don't mind the recycled content, but at least please include npcs the player can be familiar with. New characters are fine, but having some familiar ground to start off with would help. I'm pretty sure there was much more for the event planned, with included more reasoning behind the weapons, but it seemed like there were gaps as if things were scrapped because of lack of time.

I'm hoping for a better Little Lady's day event. With the Songbirds not in the picture anymore, they can work on something new.

[Shougun]

And recycled, it's the same maze as last time.

But I liked it! lol it is a fair point that if they were able to recycle X content then you might except Y to be a bit better. I like the maze though so to see it again is nice lol. I wish they added more to it, and again considered maybe some bomberman concept.

I have mixed feelings about that. I don't mind the actual event content to be recycled - I like the readings, and I like the maze. Always fun to run it with friends for kicks, especially if we're both IC on our characters.
But it is recycled, which only makes all the more obvious how little they invested in this event. There was a very minimal number of NPCs involved, the dialog was short and lackluster, and even their attempt to be 'lol it's not just for couples' fell flat, a forced attempt to be innovative when it would've been a bit more innovative if they had done the ladies properly.
And the weapons... I disagree with the people who said here that it was hard to find the other event vendor. When you pick up the repeatable quest, they tell you about a "fake" fortune teller who's in plain sight when you go to the 'legit' fortune tellers. She tells you about the black boar gate, which you can find on the map. And once there, it's very easy to see the magic pot, and see what it wants for the event items.
But the problem with that is that whatever hopes we had to have a lore reason to why these are the Valentoine's event's awards... died a horrible death. They simply didn't have it in them to invest in this event and probably used existing glamours from something else and slapped them on the event.

Yeah if I had to expand upon the recyle I'd probably be with this. Sorry Jandor if it made it look like I thought it was the best event ever, I just happened to like the gameplay and still like it now lol (to me it felt like the Darkmoon Faire gone for a while and then visiting again).

As for the rewards... I think the housing rewards for every season event tend to be cute but due to how their housing system works also makes them semi.. annoying? Abrasive? Maybe annoying isn't the right word but I think I'd be in love with housing items if they had a system in place that could support every player, but they don't and those rewards tend to make up the majority of rewards for a seasonal which gives me that "SE this is great, now take the money you get from these and fix housing". Yes yes I know its not easy or free (far from it); although, I feel they might be able to get away with data issues if they make it account wide (such that you may enter the house from any character, if that causes too much stress maybe "data center" wide might be the better wording here). Meanwhile don't demolish the current houses, but let players use the moving feature to the instanced more powerful area if they want to take advantage of the features (and take all their house bound items with them). I strongly believe and am sad they haven't started every player with a mog room (FFXI) and built the system up from there (upgrades, gardens, etc, perhaps moving the room to a dimension of "mog space" where they drop a huge feature set on us like changing sky box).

On to equipment.. The knife and sword don't really fit as many have said (I think everyone? haha). I'm sure they're trying to play some sort of foreshadow for shadowbringers (maybe we're going to find a Tonberry beast tribe?), but I think it would have been better as an easteregg. While they have some other sort of reward like a pink mammet minion with unique animations and emote interactions, and a tarot card emote (that comes with random tarot card reveals ).

[BillyKaplan]

(maybe we're going to find a Tonberry beast tribe?)

Don't toy with my emotions like that

[Jandor]

But I liked it! lol it is a fair point that if they were able to recycle X content then you might except Y to be a bit better. I like the maze though so to see it again is nice lol. I wish they added more to it, and again considered maybe some bomberman concept.

I liked the maze too, I would have liked a new maze, or an expansion of the maze, or just something.

Can't say that I like getting basically the same event as last year but this time with worse rewards though.

[Shougun]

Don't toy with my emotions like that

:3 *boop*

Lol.. It would be pretty cool though. I've wanted a Tonberry beast tribe since we saw the moogle one; although, I think this is the first time I ever said it in forums XD.

I liked the maze too, I would have liked a new maze, or an expansion of the maze, or just something.

Can't say that I like getting basically the same event as last year but this time with worse rewards though.

You can and you will, say it! SA- I actually I agree with the issue presented, I know my post that you first quoted seemed light but it was just a quick my feelings thing (and mostly based on that I never expect to see something I'll want to use from a valentines event, so like the best thing about the event is the gameplay to me lol).

I understand the sentiment that it didn't feel they had their hearts (lol? ) in this event.