Wild Idea! Bring back old events!

[OceanWilds]

So, we get that things are being pushed back because of the world pandemic going on. It sucks but you have to be safe and that is fine!

However, who is tired of grinding for Moogle Tomestones?! So, I propose that SE bring back old events (like the Yokai watch event and such) to give people a chance to get those super unique items that may have been missed for any number of reasons.

Just a silly idea, but I think it could be fun and it would give us something exciting to do. They wouldn't have to run long of course. It would make things entertaining for sure. What do you think?

[Antonio_Xul]

That would be a good idea. They should bring back the FFXV event back as well. That was fun.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Wasn't it confirmed at some point that the Yokai Watch event is coming back, with new weapons for the classes added later? Could've sworn I read that somewhere.

Crossover events with other properties (Yokai, Dragon Quest, Garo, etc) naturally require the permission of the property's owners first, so that's at least partially out of the XIV team's hands. Not sure how that would apply to other Final Fantasy properties, but we can probably rule out the XIII event, since the rewards are on the Mog Station.

[Hank_Hotspur]

The special events featuring other companies' properties is probably harder to deal with, that's why we lost the Garou gear acquisition.

[StriderShinryu]

Supposedly in the recent Live Letter recaps, they have confirmed that the Yokai Watch event is coming back sometime after 5.3 and have also said they're considering running the FF11 event again as well though no word on when that may happen.

[MsQi]

Almost every other crossover event has returned at least once, so I would expect XV to return since it hasn't yet.

[Hank_Hotspur]

It's probably safe to say that any event or crossover gear that is now in the Mog Station probably won't be back now that people are paying real money for them.

[basketofseals]

Almost every other crossover event has returned at least once, so I would expect XV to return since it hasn't yet.

Did 11 get run more than once?

[Vyrerus]

Did 11 get run more than once?

As of yet, no.

[Enkidoh]

Funny how everyone forgets there has actually been two different FFXI special events previously run in FFXIV. The first one featured Shantotto and rewarded a wind-up Shantotto minion, with the second much later event featuring Iroha and rewarding Iroha's unique gear (ironically that gear has never been made available to players in FFXI!) which is the more familiar event.

Both events were run concurrent with an event in FFXI featuring Eorzean spriggans showing up in Vana'diel (FFXI players got spriggan costumes for gear as a reward), and were in celebration of different milestones in FFXI (the first one was to celebrate FFXI's eleventh anniversary of service, with the second celebrating FFXI's official winding up of it's main scenario with the Rhapsodies of Vana'diel story, hence why Iroha who was the main character of that scenario appeared in Eorzea/Hydaelyn.). FFXI will be celebrating it's 20th anniversary in 2022 so... maybe in a couple more years we may see another crossover FFXI event perhaps?

But we're still waiting for the hinted FFVII crossover event (which is especially prudent given just how many FFXIV references are in FFVII Remake) so it's possible we'll see a FFVII event before another FFXI one.