A bit of a rant about Make It Rain and All Saints Wake

[Theodric]

One has to wonder how much of the delay is due to 'Covid' and how much is due to key members of the development team having their attention split between Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy XVI? Delays and bite sized content has been a problem for quite some time now.

[Sauteed]

A surprise couple extra wards would be cool and welcomed to add on top I suppose. Would love to see my sister get a house.

[PunkySenpai]

They could've given rewards from last event, perhaps? Or maybe try to listen to their playerbase asking for a hair for years. I can't see how this is a big effort, tbh.

I mean, the hairs in the game... making it available cant be that difficult surely? I don't know how these things all work under the hood but that can't be much of a task?

[Enla]

I am happy they let us go to the haunted house again and part of me hopes they'll keep the Genial Guiser in the Gold Saucer year round and add on mini games to the house going forward. However that's about the only thing I'm excited for... I'd rather have had a full Halloween event.

[Rosekitten]

And every single one of these events are literally nothing more than asset re-use and dialog.

That's it.

Lets not pretend that any of this should take tons of hours of development time.

This 100% ... sure event stories are cute but they take 15-20 minutes tops to complete each time and then have a currency or repeatable quest for rewards. Just kind of sad that this is literally the only mmo I know of who's skipped out on a holiday. Or if they HAD to cut content.. cut another holiday instead of the one people really look forward to? Makes you wonder how long the . it was covid and we're behind excuse will last or how many future events we're not going to get.

[Brightamethyst]

Or if they HAD to cut content.. cut another holiday instead of the one people really look forward to?

This was probably the only, or at least easiest one to cut. Work had probably already started on Moonfire and the Rising when the decision to cut a holiday was made, while All Saints Wake was still farther out.

[Alleo]

I am on a break right now and if that is all that we get with this event than this is just horrible. Yes Corona happened, so I guess we cant get a story line and not a whole Halloween event itself but why not introduce at least a couple of new items? You put so much stuff behind Ishgard or Bozja but not a single new item for the event?

Thats just sad.

One has to wonder how much of the delay is due to 'Covid' and how much is due to key members of the development team having their attention split between Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy XVI? Delays and bite sized content has been a problem for quite some time now.

Yeah I honestly wonder that too. Is everyone really just that behind with Covid that they cant even create a handful of new items? Maybe even some items that already existed ingame and can be reused for it with a touch of halloween...or is Covid only used to hide behind it..especially if its true what others said and MMOs like WoW had barely any delay...

[Shofie]

I guess that means they don't start making the actual event items as far ahead as we assumed they did.

Keep in mind the pandemic has been aggressively forcing people into quarantine since like...March, if not sooner. It's been at least 7 months of heavily restricted workflow for the XIV team, and I have no idea when they start putting items into production for seasonal events in terms of how far out in front of the event they get stuff ready.

I'm gonna assume you're right here though, and that it's probably not 6+ months, considering.

[Eloah]

Can people just chill. To start, they informed us about the events cancelation, so we knew not to expect much. We know that XIV is planned out far in advance for a lot of things, and several things are being worked on congruently. We know that the pandemic is a major cause of the delay, but any business is only going to share the public aspects they are dealing with, we have no idea how much personal strife the development team has had to deal with.

I am not saying people can't be disappointed, but just show a little more understanding. We have no idea how they or anyone else is dealing with the current situation. And it's wrong for us to just give a generic catch-all response that we feel would solve everything. We weren't promised anything, and in the grand scheme of things the devs have been as upfront with us as possible and delivered a lot to us. So for something like this I'd say cut them some slack and save the true ire for when it's needed; like unfair glamours or the housing debacle. Which when you think about it are like the only "major" things we have. I mean the game is well balanced, and they try to keep it that way.

Oh and for those saying they already have the Halloween assets that they could just flip on. While I wont claim to know how it would work from a technical standpoint; how long does it take the average person to put up regular decorations? Just because something or someone is using a computer doesn't mean the process is 100% easier/faster. It's just another means to an end.

[usernameuwu]

I was really expecting the noctis car to be brought back because i thought that is what i read on another forum, but yeah nothing was even added and pretty underwhelming.
i resubbed just for the october event too. will be gone all of november and hope the christmas event makes up for this.