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

[Jennestia]

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.

I have, what I mean is there's a team that does event related stuff and the Umbral event is clearly another type of content that's being introduced overtime, it's nothing spectacular but that's the point, it's not main content which is what Yoshida was referring to when he stated about the different perspectives on tackling the main storyline for example.

[Estellios]

Yeah the main content they were talking about is main storyline quest-type stuff, not these live things.

I think my opinion on the live event issue still stands and the frequency of these needs to be bumped up so it appears more frequently and spread out among peak times for the different regions. However from my experience they do seem to get more frequent the longer they are around, although I just might be lucky in previous events.

[Murugan]

I have, what I mean is there's a team that does event related stuff and the Umbral event is clearly another type of content that's being introduced overtime, it's nothing spectacular but that's the point, it's not main content which is what Yoshida was referring to when he stated about the different perspectives on tackling the main storyline for example.

Well I for one hope you are wrong, and from the context I read it in he was referring to the fact that story content was not properly balanced for battle classes which made it completely trivial and not fun. This falls in the exact same category and should be fixed.

Is the "Legatus Battle" going to be this lame? The Umbral storyline is important to me, and the actual playable parts of that storyline should involve actual playing of the game.

[Zeref]

Well I for one hope you are wrong, and from the context I read it in he was referring to the fact that story content was not properly balanced for battle classes which made it completely trivial and not fun. This falls in the exact same category and should be fixed.

Is the "Legatus Battle" going to be this lame? The Umbral storyline is important to me, and the actual playable parts of that storyline should involve actual playing of the game.

It might be lame, it might turn out as one of those slow start high finish all of a sudden everything makes sense type of things.

[Onizuka]

Thanks for posting the official translation on that, Bayohne, but I've to agree with Reinheart here. The randomness of these events is quite uncomfortable and requires too much time or luck for the casual adventurer to catch.

Although I really appreciated the reward of the secret area in Mistbeard Cove, The Whale's Cape, and changed my original Topic in a more positive note, I still believe this randomness won't do much good for casual adventurers with not much free time.

I spent many days trying to figure out a pattern and in the end didn't find out much, probably because I'm not smart enough (or there's no pattern at all).

Like I said, I did both of these events and enjoyed them, but, as a casual, my tactics was to either craft in the same spot or go to Eorzea every hour, taking airships/teleporting to other city-states. This, of course, only in late afternoon or evening/night.
Not the best of comfort for me, as I like to craft in different places, nor for another adventurer that could stay in Eorzea even less than me, like from 21.00 to 00.00.

By the way, the name of the cultists is “The Lambs of Dalamud”, not “The Lamb of Dalamut”... Sorry for the correction, vine-man! And I hope you community reps noticed this other similar Topic here.
Even if that matter wasn't brought up in the Japanese board, I wish it'd be taken into consideration, as well as gradually change the occurrence of these limited-time, story-related events. Thanks if you forwarded it to the devs.

[Rokien]

Welp, deal with it! I have to deal with the stupid mounts now, I like how random it is! makes it more..... immersion ^.^

[Rokien]

Sorry, not everything should be hand fed

[Fusionx]

"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....

This was something that we had asked Yoshida about:

GamerEscape: Currently there are Garlean forces that appear around Eorzea. Right now they’ve been seen around Camp Glory. However, the timing of these events seems random. I’ve actually spent hours sitting in Ul’dah waiting for the NPC to show up for these! Do you think you could make these events more frequent so that players have a better chance of running into this kind of event?

Yoshida: We are currently planning on increasing the frequency of these events, starting with a new type of live event in patch 1.20. However, it was determined that announcing every live event may lead to congestion and even cause a bit of unwanted confusion, so we’ve decided it to keep their schedule secret. Personally, I believe that happening across one of these unpredictable events makes them all the more exciting!

http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/2011/12...naoki-yoshida/

[Alegis]

The Developers have to realize that most players got a Real Life (some have to go to work/school etc.) and if they login into this game, they may want to have fun and not being forced to create 3 chars to camp each city for a couple of days, to participate in those events (even if they dont miss much atm because those events were pretty boring yet).
That they are time limited makes it even worse.

The chance to get into those events, w/o camping the spots, is vanishingly low.

Same with events were GMs are involved. They happen rarely (never seen any yet) and if u get lucky, theres still up to a 75% chance that u dont speak the language they are using then.

[Rokien]

LOL I go to work/school don't even give that excuse. It makes it more exciting when you can be like, OHSGMDSfh THERE IT IS. instead of, oh, there it is AGAIN....