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

[Alhanelem]

As the event goes on, fewer players show up until no one shows up at all because everyone has the achievement.

There is no achievement. Just an entry in your history that nobody is ever going to read.

this is exactly the kind of nature I wish I'd never find in a mmo event. I'd rather camp for hours a non instanced NM against other groups... at least that's not random.

Uhm... camping an HNM for hours against other groups IS random. Well, unless someone is botting.

At least you can't bot a spontaneous GM event.

Lots of games have events that come and go, and In those that I've played, nobody complains about the fact that they exist (Sure, some might talk about how much an individual event may have sucked/not sucked, but they don't complain that they get the events at all). But in FFXIV, everyone feels entitled to be able to have anything and everything how they want, when they want. Look, if these events don't interest you, then don't do them. You are NOT missing out on anything essential or important. These events are largely for fun only.

I have not seen one of these events yet, and it's no big deal to me. If I see one, yay. If not, oh well.

[Phenidate]

Just my feedback about this matter:
It's not fair, it doesn't give all the players the same chances... you should either set a timetable or don't give any history entries at all... this is exactly the kind of nature I wish I'd never find in a mmo event. I'd rather camp for hours a non instanced NM against other groups... at least that's not random.

I rather like the spontaneity of these events, it's more the infrequency of them that I think is a problem. Too have a large variety of random events that just happen would be enough to balance out not getting to see all of it. Make it so we can get in on enough of it to get what's up.

Say If there is a big enough pool of events for us players to get into that we can eventually get a feel for what ever content 'set' of events is trying to convey... I could see that being a very interesting way to tell story to us the players. Important stuff could be tied up with main story line quests everyone would get in on.

One player may end up combating cultists and fending off 'roided out rabbits and defending villages from a mysterious beast. Another might help lead a scholar to some ruins, investigate a watchpost that's gone silent, and collect burnt out crystals. Both players would end up getting the idea that something weird is going on with Eorzea, foul play is afoot and it's making monsters and people go nuts.

Both would then go on to follow the related major quest chain and connect the dots from the random events.

If that's where the Devs are trying to take this I'm cool with that then.

[Reabs]

If they still wanted it to be random maybe they could at least set a time frame or something say like..npc can spawn from 12PM - 4PM or something..I dunno, just an idea.

You mean like they actually are? I've yet to here any info that's contradiction to them spawning between 5-9am pst & 5-9pm pst. http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...550#post516550.

[Coglin]

While it may be "equal" to everyone in that sense..it is not practical to folks who have "lives" so to speak. Not everyone has the opportunity to camp at their PC unfortunatley for 24 hours+

If they still wanted it to be random maybe they could at least set a time frame or something say like..npc can spawn from 12PM - 4PM or something..I dunno, just an idea.

Did you even try to learn anything first or is your initial reaction to everything to cry and complain?

You mean like they actually are? I've yet to here any info that's contradiction to them spawning between 6-9am pst & 6-9pm pst. http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...550#post516550.

[XStruckX]

You know I really dont mind the randomness of events that happen in the game...even the infrequency. What irks the living hell out of me and makes me want to throw a cat out of a window is the fact that NO ONE FREAKING TELLS YOU THERE IS AN EVENT GOING ON!!! I look everywhere and maybe I'm an idiot, but these forums are so crap sometimes.

SE needs to be like "Hey BTW there is something new going on here, you might want to check it out."

[RathSkybreaker]

Apparently NPCs in the city states give you the achievements of getting interviews for the newspaper, however I was really only ever worried about the alfgar event in the first place...

[Neptune]

"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....

No disrespect to Kaiser Sublimen, but I think the rarity of the events is just right. If you never get to experience it, you can read about it or see pictures of it here on the forums. It's like somebody telling you they saw a UFO. You can't expect the chance to see it yourself, although if it happened, you'd be thrilled.

[Answa]

No disrespect to Kaiser Sublimen, but I think the rarity of the events is just right. If you never get to experience it, you can read about it or see pictures of it here on the forums. It's like somebody telling you they saw a UFO. You can't expect the chance to see it yourself, although if it happened, you'd be thrilled.

I agree with you. Now shorten your sig.

[Babydoll]

You mean like they actually are? I've yet to here any info that's contradiction to them spawning between 6-9am pst & 6-9pm pst. http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...550#post516550.

nah..i camped it yesterday from 7pm CST and it popped at 7:07am..thats about 12 hrs or so ^_^ had my bf PC camping one city, me one city and his bro PC the last city.

[Reinheart]

No disrespect to Kaiser Sublimen, but I think the rarity of the events is just right. If you never get to experience it, you can read about it or see pictures of it here on the forums. It's like somebody telling you they saw a UFO. You can't expect the chance to see it yourself, although if it happened, you'd be thrilled.

I understand but same time YoshiP and them said that players who stay (subscribe/pay) will get to participate in these live events pretty sure no one was expecting this type. Personally I don't care much just don't feel right for those who really want these.

From JP side

こんなテーマパーク無いわｗ
Never heard of theme park like this lol

ミッキーもドナルドもいるかどうかわらかないのにチケット買うと思う？
少なくとも予定された時間にいけば必ずステージでミッキーに会える、から
ディズニーランドに行くんだＹＯ。
ライブイベントが新生まで課金してもらう人へのサービスの目玉じゃなかったの？
煽って煽って盛り上げるのが普通でしょうよ。何故隠すのｗｗｗｗ
Would you buy a ticket if you don't even know if Mickey or Donald is even there? (This is if you like meeting Disney characters instead of just going through rides, etc... saying this before someone becomes a smart a** lol)
At least at the specific time if you go to the right spot you will get to see Mickey on stage isn't that why you go to Disney Land?
I thought these live events were the main feature for those who subscribe and stay till 2.0
Isn't it normal to gather as much people by making these stand out. Why hide them wwww

Anyway doesn't really bother me much so I should stop talking about this one (for now)