Alfgar's Event and Imperial Assault - Why did you make them "random" events?

[Bayohne]

Hey everyone, along with our counterparts in Japan and Europe, we've been gathering your feedback and passing it along to the team in regards to this content. Duckbill recently posted a response on this topic that I want to also share with you all here.

While there are a lot of things that we can’t discuss as they are related to ongoing content, please rest assured that we are delivering your feedback on everything you’re all discussing and that your ideas and opinions will be reflected in future content. (Of course, it all depends on the content itself, so there is a chance they may not be reflected, too.)

Now, for what I can discuss.

The "Lamb of Dalamud" event is different from your normal everyday quest as it is tied to a live event. As some of you pointed out, live events are a phenomenon that occurs intermittently and unexpectedly. With both the inclusion of system aspects as well as aspects that in-game staff mediates, the time and whereabouts are uncertain.

There are other live events besides "Lamb of Dalamud," but how many and what they are, is a secret.

While there are players that would like to participate yet have not yet been able to, that is tied to the nature of this event.

As you have also mentioned, there will be Lodestone history-related entries that cannot be obtained, but I believe this is the same for all types of “limited time” content. With that said, I do not want to go into much more detail, but I just wanted to let you know that the live events will only be something that will offer Lodestone history entries and not yield achievements that can be missed.

[Reinheart]

"limited time" with limited number of people that can participate doesn't make this fun for some players that want to actually get those records in the history... which is why it would be nice if the devs the can increase the frequency of at least the system based live events.

As for the GM's roleplaying... been waiting and haven't seen any yet... heard it popped up once on Melmond server in Ul'dah but bunch of noobs threw snowball at it and it left right away....

[Zeref]

doesn't make this fun for some players that want to actually get those records in the history.

Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up first.

[Reinheart]

Wish in one hand, s*** in the other, see which one fills up first.

For me both hands are full with subligars... thx

[Murugan]

This dalmund event was far worse than the garlean invasions which at least were geared towards low level players and had an excuse for being so trivial.

Lower the limit, or increase the # or power of cultists (except you can't likely increase the # of cultists enough due to character limits).

The even is painfully dull, you sit around far too long in between spawns and then a bunch of weak cultist MRD types pop which even a solo player could have little difficult handling. I thought under Yoshi we were no longer playing the "storyline content has to be accessible to everyone including wrist flicking crafter classes" game.

Not asking for something really challenging here, just something that feels like I am actually playing a game.

[Jennestia]

People would complain if there's a sudden shift though -- This is stuff that's already been in the pipeline long before he announced the "separation of classes" in terms of accessibility.

[Zeref]

I thought under Yoshi we were no longer playing the "storyline content has to be accessible to everyone including wrist flicking crafter classes" game..

Not sure where you got that from since repeatedly in interviews he said he wanted to open up the game and expand it so that even people that main in a DOH/DOL can participate in the story driven and world changing events, I'm sure THIS is not what he had in mind, but it's besides the point, which is that you are under completely opposite impression.

[Murugan]

People would complain if there's a sudden shift though -- This is stuff that's already been in the pipeline long before he announced the "separation of classes" in terms of accessibility.

I did see a few people fishing while I was in there.... so what's the point though? The cultists popped and they... continued fishing. They didn't engage anything, they were just leaching. Like I said not asking for anything dramatic, but it doesn't feel like you are playing the game. It feels like you are wasting your time doing nothing, and the event just drags on and on and on....

All that time spent trying to find it, once you actually do it you will be glued to the clock waiting for it to be finally over so you can get your two potions, and make some coffee to wake yourself up.

Not sure where you got that from since repeatedly in interviews he said he wanted to open up the game and expand it so that even people that main in a DOH/DOL can participate in the story driven and world changing events, I'm sure THIS is not what he had in mind, but it's besides the point, which is that you are under completely opposite impression.

Nope it is in his interviews (which might still be sticked at the top). Main storyline content will be properly balanced for battle classes in the future. Not ridiculously hand tied by the ridiculous notion that all disciple types should go through the exact same content (making it not fun for any of them).

[Jennestia]

What Yoshida mentioned was basically A/B perspectives -- This is definitely not it but it's also something they've already worked on prior to that interview since I doubt they stopped work on a major patch for even a little bit of time to add some small umbral era content then go back to working on major patch content -- They likely already had the people behind the events working on this stuff since 1.18 or so.

[Murugan]

What Yoshida mentioned was basically A/B perspectives -- This is definitely not it but it's also something they've already worked on prior to that interview since I doubt they stopped work on a major patch for even a little bit of time to add some small umbral era content then go back to working on major patch content -- They likely already had the people behind the events working on this stuff since 1.18 or so.

Have you done the event? It clearly isn't the result of many months of careful planning and implementation by a large team of developers. It is broken gameplay wise, horribly balanced, and recommended for 45+ characters I believe.

It's a few mobs that spawn minutes apart (the spawning is way too slow), and at the end another mob spawns that may be a different type but is killed in seconds just the same. Then it is over and a chest appears.