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

[northernsky]

Thanks Reinheart for sharing.

To be fair, however, the above argument is not better because it's from a random guy from the Japanese side, I personally don't find it convincing at all.

Random events the main feature until 2.0? SE hiding them? Mickey Mouse??? Just discussing the specific argument that you brought, not the relevance of bringing them, please keep it up!

[Jinko]

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....

You are very persistent with your opinion huh.

Doesn't really change the fact that the majority of people don't want to camp an NPC for something which is basically filler content.

Sure you can argue don't camp the NPC and just be awe inspired when it pops "oh the joy".

It seems a waste of time to make content (even if it is half assed) and then make it so random that only a small minority of players get to experience it.

[Kio]

I agree with the Japanese player post Reinhart quoted.

I really wanted to participate in these, camped them for hours..for days..for weeks.... Spent a lot of wasted time dropping everything I was doing to port to town to town and wait some more because someone said they saw it there and it may pop. Still haven't seen one of the live events except for one newspaper npc that gave me some usless fireworks.

This wasn't what I anticipated when I renewed my subscription, and I don't feel like I am able to participate in what was promised to me if I did renew. It basically made me highly regret paying for this month and convinced me quit after this month's time is up.
Yes, I know more things are coming but the likelyhood of me getting what I paid for out of it is diminishing every day I log on. The random events aren't that big a thing to most people who may not understand my level if disappointment, but the way I see it is there are about as much things to do in the game currently as fingers on my hand. And the fact that there's finally something new and unique going on that I'm being denied just makes me turn off the game and switch to a different one with more instant gratification.

I really hope that the dev team changes their mind and makes these events and future ones more predictable. At the very least make them more frequent with a city wide announcement that it might pop in the next few minutes, maybe even have it pop in all 3 cities at the same time.

[Alhanelem]

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



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

I would agree with the notion that these events should stand out more and get more people involved. They should still be live, unique events, but they need to take greater care to make sure that the people who really want to participate have some opportunities to do so.

[Altanas]

SE really need to up their game and make things STAND OUT.

Any event in this game should literally take over the buzz of the city/area when they occur, not just be static. This should apply to all events (seasons, 7th umbral, newspaper, et al)

For example,

a) when its a Seasonal event, say Summer, there should be ginormous parades through the city like in the opening of Uldah's mission 1 cutscene, not just an npc standing static and a few cosmetic decorations.

b) when theres an Invasion, the cities npc army/cavalry should be seen making their way leaving the city and marching to the besieged camp, then make the whole semi-region where that camp is one massive warzone!

c) when theres Cultists, there should be a legion of cultists spawning in the city laying waste to everyone and everything, the city should be visibly in flames, and then after that we go down the purple aehryte (the npc does mention after all his daughter was kidnapped in the city), then once in mistbeard cove or sildiq aqueducts there should be mountains of mobs, traps, fighting our way through to a boss (not just standing still and the mobs spawning on us x 3 til the lolboss spawns) should be like a mini dynamis.

[Reinheart]

SE really need to up their game and make things STAND OUT.

Any event in this game should literally take over the buzz of the city/area when they occur, not just be static. This should apply to all events (seasons, 7th umbral, newspaper, et al)

For example,

a) when its a Seasonal event, say Summer, there should be ginormous parades through the city like in the opening of Uldah's mission 1 cutscene, not just an npc standing static and a few cosmetic decorations.

b) when theres an Invasion, the cities npc army/cavalry should be seen making their way leaving the city and marching to the besieged camp, then make the whole semi-region where that camp is one massive warzone!

c) when theres Cultists, there should be a legion of cultists spawning in the city laying waste to everyone and everything, the city should be visibly in flames, and then after that we go down the purple aehryte (the npc does mention after all his daughter was kidnapped in the city), then once in mistbeard cove or sildiq aqueducts there should be mountains of mobs, traps, fighting our way through to a boss (not just standing still and the mobs spawning on us x 3 til the lolboss spawns) should be like a mini dynamis.

cool with all those but I think with current server software this isn't possible reason why all the NPC's don't even walk but stand in one spot and doing few motions... hopfully something like what you mention happens in 2.0

[Neptune]

I agree with you. Now shorten your sig.

lol. What quote should I knock off there? It's all so good. lol. Worked better before the portraits were added.

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



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

So you don't mind if I start calling you Kaiser Sublimen? lol

Thanks for sharing that from the JP side. Interesting turn of events. So some people feel shortchanged. Big surprise, there is barely any content in the game. This is indeed a big problem for the dev team, although I think Yoshi-P meant more than these rare events when he was selling us a year of FFXIV-beta. lol. I think he was referring to more Grand Companies storylines. I think these rare events are something they are going to do throughout the game's life, and I think it's a brilliant idea to keep them rare. The only thing that makes them special is the fact that they are rare. If it popped every 30 mins or whatever it would be just another random event.

I am bummed that I missed out on some, but it only made the one I did experience all the more cool. I really can't see how increasing the frequency or certainty of experiencing them would make it better. JP side has a point that people should get something in return for their ticket, but I'd say they should get a lot more than rare events for that ticket. Would you buy a ticket to Disney land just to see Mickey Mouse appear for 5 minutes? lol

[Reinheart]

So you don't mind if I start calling you Kaiser Sublimen? lol

Sounds like leader of power rangers so I'm cool with it lol.

Anyways yeah if you don't get to participate it's not much of a big deal so it really doesn't mean much at least to me it doesn't if I get in one of them cool, if not too bad but for some this isn't the case for them reason why we got threads up both in JP and EN, JP side is much asking just to increase the frequency they don't mind the randomness if it's more frequent.

Last night was sad on Melmond server Alfgar was up in Limsa and me and my wife just got back from exping our CON and was about to get new guild leve when Alfgar popped we went inside the warp took us to Mist Beard told 3 LS's we have with about 10 people each to see if they are interested to come since it's only us 2 so far. Some guys were getting on there way but they missed it... ended up with just me and wife in this live event lol.

[morpheus]

Just another example of the great use of "Random" by SE which is pissing off people yet again. Why this love for random? It basically always rewards a select few and screws over the rest of the population. It's just lazy game development imo.

[Soukyuu]

Except it's not that random as people believe it is... it's a pretty trivial event with the only reward being an entry in the lodestone history which doesn't affect anything... not a +20 to all stats item, so why the complains?

It's the same as with GM reporters, SE replaced them with static npcs now, 3 mole meat and you get it for free. RPing was way more fun, so was figuring out the spawn times (they even been posted here on the forums).