Do you want Garo gears/mounts to appear in the game again ?

[Raltar]

I wouldn't mind it coming back as long as it wasn't tied to PvP. That's why I didn't bother with it before. PvP sucks. In all forms, in all games.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

No, don't bring back Garo.
As much as I feel for those that missed out, it was in the game for I think a whole Expansion and a Half. So there was plenty of time for those that WERE playing the game.

Plus as its already been mentioned, Garo does not belong to Yoshi-P or Square, it was a collab event with a separate owner of the IP. Trying to get it back in XIV would be costly and take time.....that would be better spent on a whole new fresh event that could reinvigorate PvP.

Then for The Regalia, that COULD come back as a Mog Store item. But I think is No chance the event will ever return, so the title is no longer obtainable.
Sorry Fam :/

[Nihility]

It was around for like 2 years, would much prefer something different if they do another pvp event

Limited event stuff is kind of just the nature of MMO's
Kind of have to expect some missed limited stuff if you weren't around since the beginning

[StriderShinryu]

I'd like to see it added back to the Golden Saucer at least. I came back to the game nearing the end of the "event" so I didn't even realize that what I was seeing in the Saucer was linked to the Garo event as it was old news by that point. There were at least a few other pieces there I would have picked up had I known they'd be going away soon.

[MsQi]

I'd like to see it added back to the Golden Saucer at least. I came back to the game nearing the end of the "event" so I didn't even realize that what I was seeing in the Saucer was linked to the Garo event as it was old news by that point. There were at least a few other pieces there I would have picked up had I known they'd be going away soon.

You know, the gold saucer versions could not be dyed.

[MsQi]

If that were the case, why was there a huge spike in PvP participation during the first months of the event? People clearly knew about the GARO event being a thing. The only thing that was vague, was the end date of the event. Something along the lines of "It'll end some time after the release of Stormblood."

It ended up going from patch 3.5 (17th of January, 2017) till patch 5.1 (29th of October, 2019). They eventually did make a lodestone post notifying players about the end date, about 5-6 months prior to it.

When it started it was announced. After a while people mostly forgot about it and people who started during that time had very little to tell them it existed. When it was announced that it was ending in 5.1 there was a sudden surge in pvp. Around the time it was about to end and afterwards there were people begging for it to be extended or returned because they didn't know about it.

The playerbase at least doubled during this time. Lots of new players never saw it announced.

[kaynide]

Just a generic FYI for those interested. The Garo franchise does weird, but limited collaboration events with a huge swath of companies/brands/etc here in Japan. A big "regular" one is a collab with Pachinko parlors or drinks at convenience stores.

So for it to show up in a Japanese game isn't really surprising. That said, what specifically the Garo brand got vs what exactly SE got out of this is a mystery to me. Money? Paid sponsoring? Who knows. If it wasn't lucritive for whoever paid the other, I highly doubt it'll return.


Also! It's not unique to Garo here in Japan by any means. The Evangelion franchise (yeah that old anime) still does a TON of stuff similar...so I wouldn't be surprised if something similar to that popped up either.
...ALSO, that said, Square Enix has done really weird partnerships in the last few years. Don't know if it was done outside of Japan, but Coleman (camping goods) and FF15 had a thing. Lightning was hawking Louis Vuitton. I wanna say I bought a Dragon Quest blue "slime" nikuman a while back (it's a beef-filled steamed bun).

[StriderShinryu]

You know, the gold saucer versions could not be dyed.

Yep, but I liked the glams in their non-dyable colours for the most part. And I have little interest in PvP.

[MPNZ]

Yep, but I liked the glams in their non-dyable colours for the most part. And I have little interest in PvP.

It would have been better to mention that the gear was really affordable compared most of the other wares and the boots, gloves and top (or the full set) for a single job could be acquired in just 3-6 hours of play for any Adder and Maelstrom players on weekends. They were like 2-8k individually, which is way less of a grind than most of the items they sell (though still desirable on an individual to individual basis), so the GS versions were totally a bad deal in an overall comparison

[DBriggs304]

Nope. It was here when it was here.