All Saints' Wake 2020

[Alestorm]

There's nothing to stop players from organizing their own in-game events as they usually do.

I see a lot of FC's/players still doing their haunted houses and events. It would be cool to see some trick or treating type of thing done in the housing wards.

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

All Saint's Wake at the Gold Saucer? But Godbert is already there and he's scary enough.

Jokes aside, merging the two events sounds like it could be neat. Especially if we got themed GATEs. But, as stated previously, the event has likely already been fully planned, scripted, and coded by now.

[Coletergeist]

So...and sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this and redirect me if so ^^;;
But, I was wanting to get my hands on some Halloween glams, as this will be my first time playing FFXIV through a Halloween season this year, being new and all.
With that being said...where may I be able to obtain the ghost glam? Or the Witch's hat? ETc? If I have to wait next year, that's fine and all. I was just curious more than anything.

[wereotter]

So...and sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this and redirect me if so ^^;;
But, I was wanting to get my hands on some Halloween glams, as this will be my first time playing FFXIV through a Halloween season this year, being new and all.
With that being said...where may I be able to obtain the ghost glam? Or the Witch's hat? ETc? If I have to wait next year, that's fine and all. I was just curious more than anything.

So the costumes are handled the same way as pretty much every other seasonal event. You won't be able to obtain previous years' rewards in-game, but instead once a year has passed from the initial time the event ran, they'll add the rewards to the Mog Station to be purchased with real money. So things like the ghost and witch costumes (also there's a vampire cape and a werewolf outfit) are already available on there right now.

[Coletergeist]

So the costumes are handled the same way as pretty much every other seasonal event. You won't be able to obtain previous years' rewards in-game, but instead once a year has passed from the initial time the event ran, they'll add the rewards to the Mog Station to be purchased with real money. So things like the ghost and witch costumes (also there's a vampire cape and a werewolf outfit) are already available on there right now.

Thank you ^^
I should've known lol. Looks like I got a few things to purchase; I love Halloween, being my favorite holiday, kinda bummed about no Halloween events this year, but I'm not expecting the devs to pull events out of their asses either with covid being a thing and all.

[MsQi]

All Saint's Wake at the Gold Saucer? But Godbert is already there and he's scary enough.

Jokes aside, merging the two events sounds like it could be neat. Especially if we got themed GATEs. But, as stated previously, the event has likely already been fully planned, scripted, and coded by now.

The gold saucer should be decorated for many of the seasonal events and have special things going on for each of them, like you said, themed G.A.T.E.s, or special items, featured and or changed certain games. Maybe instead of putting previous years stuff on the cash shop, have them at the gold saucer during the event for MGP. (obviously wouldn't happen for anything already in the cash shop.)

This could go on alongside the usual event and for the first year would mean a little more work, but what happens at the gold Saucer could be essentially the same each year while the quests and storyline change each year as usual. I'm not say that story needs to even involve the GS. It's just a business celebrating the holiday, and would make it feel like the holidays have a wider reach in the world.

It's odd that we have events that originate in other parts of the world but those parts don't seem to celebrate them. Valentione's Day and Starlight Celebration both originate in Ishgard, but the city and surrounding areas are never even decorated. You would also think something would be going on in Kugane during Heavensturn.

[Iscah]

So...and sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this and redirect me if so ^^;;
But, I was wanting to get my hands on some Halloween glams, as this will be my first time playing FFXIV through a Halloween season this year, being new and all.
With that being said...where may I be able to obtain the ghost glam? Or the Witch's hat? ETc? If I have to wait next year, that's fine and all. I was just curious more than anything.

If you're just after a "witch's hat" then there are a multitude in-game as mage equipment. Glamour doesn't have to come from dedicated Lv1 pieces.

Even if you don't have a mage levelled, the earlier pieces are for all classes. The Lv49 craftable hat on the marketboard can be worn by anyone and is black with a dyeable band.

[KosmicKaijuu]

This genuinely actually has me big sad.

This was one of the few events I was really looking forward to this year. I hadn't been lucky enough to participate in the last one and literally EVERYONE I talk to keeps mentioning how much fun this event was. So definitely not happy with the decision to cancel. Here's hoping for a come back next year perhaps.

Yoshi please, why you do this.

[TheMightyMollusk]

The pandemic kicked everything back, hence why the Make It Rain Campaign (normally held in the spring) is happening in October. The work was probably close to finished on it before the lockdown, but they couldn't exactly send the midsummer event to the fall, and the Rising has to take place at the same time because it's the game's anniversary celebration, so MIR got rescheduled, and then there was no time to write up and prepare a proper All Saints' Wake. It's unfortunate, but real life writes the plot.

[TaleraRistain]

I just want to know why they looked at two possible events - Make It Rain and freaking *Halloween* - and decided people would want the Gold Saucer event over Spookytime

Give us the old instance to run around for All Saints Wake and we'd be happy. We all loved that place.