Makai stuff missing from Calamity Salvager

[FirstnameLastname]

Or they could have.. you know, looked into it beforehand? Oh wait, that's tied to doing something themselves.

[MomomiMomi]

I'm always of the mind that you as a player must stay informed if you wish to play a game like this. you are only doing yourself a disservice if you are in the dark about how things work.

And I'm of the mind that it's the dev's/community manager's responsibility to make sure they are giving us clear and accurate information, not muddy half-truths.

[TheGrimace]

My girlfriend finished getting all of the achievements required for the mounts just before servers went down for 5.1, expecting to be able to claim 2 of the 3 remaining mounts she needed after servers went up again. She had the achievements and the equipment would be re-obtainable to those of us who had the achievements, so it makes sense, right?

She logged in to find that she couldn't claim her horse mounts despite having the achievements. Similarly, she also has a Whisper-a-Go-Go, and that still appears with Jonathas since she has the required Achievement, but the Garo mounts are nowhere to be found. She contacted a GM and they informed her that she had to claim them before the 5.1 patch came up.

Why is it this way for the Garo mounts, yet people can still claim Whisper-a-Go-Go? Whatever the case, something's wonky and there is no standardization between which rewards based on 3rd-Party Properties stay and which go.

[Canadane]

And I'm of the mind that it's the dev's/community manager's responsibility to make sure they are giving us clear and accurate information, not muddy half-truths.

They need to leave some mystery to the game!
But in this case, they did mention it.

[Ursa_Vonfiebryd]

My girlfriend finished getting all of the achievements required for the mounts just before servers went down for 5.1, expecting to be able to claim 2 of the 3 remaining mounts she needed after servers went up again. She had the achievements and the equipment would be re-obtainable to those of us who had the achievements, so it makes sense, right?

She logged in to find that she couldn't claim her horse mounts despite having the achievements. Similarly, she also has a Whisper-a-Go-Go, and that still appears with Jonathas since she has the required Achievement, but the Garo mounts are nowhere to be found. She contacted a GM and they informed her that she had to claim them before the 5.1 patch came up.

Why is it this way for the Garo mounts, yet people can still claim Whisper-a-Go-Go? Whatever the case, something's wonky and there is no standardization between which rewards based on 3rd-Party Properties stay and which go.

The event you get Whisper from is a recurring one as I understand it. I've seen Yokai Watch happen at least twice since they first introduced it. Not sure how regularly it happens because I usually ignore it (the rewards aren't different--I got what I wanted the first time around). Maybe that is the reason you can still claim the mount.

[TheGrimace]

Yokai Watch happened a second time through a series of strange events two years ago. XIV was in the middle of a 14-Hour Anniversary Stream and had Level-5's CEO on as a guest. Randomly he brought up that he still wanted to get the Whisper-a-Go-Go mount and that Yoshi should re-introduce the event to have more chances towards receiving the rewards. With amusement, Yoshi P complied and the event came back within only 3 days of planning.

Nothing since then. If we see it again I'll be surprised (but happy, truly). We haven't seen Shantotto or Iroha in quite a long time either, not since their second go-arounds. I think we may see Noct once more as a reprise, but that's about it for now.

But I digress. I still find it strange that Garo's mount achievements don't work in the same manner as the Yokai Watch ones. I would like my girlfriend to be able to actually see the rewards for the work she put forth.

[Celef]

Or they could have.. you know, looked into it beforehand? Oh wait, that's tied to doing something themselves.

Again, I get the "you should have check beforehands" "and the "that's because your lazy to do things by yourself" but, again, I stopped playing almost 6 months ago, was not sure I would come back and came back last week end...
In that situation I'd be honest and admitt I did not check the Lodestone during those 6 months considering I was not concerned by the patches...

[LineageRazor]

Honestly for a limited time event they should have made all of these things much easier to obtain/reobtain. For the amount of effort that we put to get everything from Mako it should have been a permanent event like the Monster Hunter event.

But...who knows at this point everyone should try to get the Monster Hunter stuff asap because they might remove it in the future like they did the Mako.

It's not Square-Enix's decision to make as to whether it will be a permanent event or not. The collaboration was just that - a collaboration. It could only last for as long as the franchise owner would allow (not sure who owns Garo - TV Tokyo, maybe?).

Capcom was willing to allow the Monster Hunter crossover to be permanent, but it was all laid out in the contract. Since we've been told the Monster Hunter event is permanent, likely nothing short of a lawsuit will allow Capcom to force Squeenix to discontinue the event. I'd say the odds of the Rathalos fight being removed are very slim.

The Garo stuff we were told from the beginning that it was going to be temporary, and were given more than a year's advance notice when the decision was finally made to end it. It's a shame, though, that it wasn't made more clear which lingering items could still be obtained after the event, and how. No one should have to look up two-year-old version updates to learn the specifics of how these items are added to the Calamity Salvager.

[Iscah]

No one should have to look up two-year-old version updates to learn the specifics of how these items are added to the Calamity Salvager.

I'm sure I read it somewhere in the Lodestone notices recently. Maybe the patch notes, maybe the specific announcement/reminders about the end of the collaboration.

[Macleod]

I'm sure I read it somewhere in the Lodestone notices recently. Maybe the patch notes, maybe the specific announcement/reminders about the end of the collaboration.

That's not what they're talking about. It is fully acknowledged in this thread that people were aware when the collab was ending. The problem is, all they said in recent patch notes was that you'd be able to obtain previously gained items from the Calamity Salvager. The ONLY proven mention of having to have the achievements to be able to repurchase them from the Calamity Salvager that's been provided so far is 3.55a patch notes from over 2½ YEARS AGO. So, clearly people newer to the game would not fully understand what to expect when they didn't say anything in the RECENT patch notes about needing to have the achievements to repurchase items.