Hatching-Tide 2021

[Enkidoh]

Unfortunately I think the Easter event was just another casualty of the pandemic delaying SE's development schedule so much they've had to start sacrificing things in order to get the development of the new expansion and the next content patch out in time (most SE staff are working from home like most people around the world which has naturally caused headaches).

Like the Halloween event last year, it's unsurprising the Easter event was not run this year in order to devote resources towards getting patch 5.5 out, given SE is a Japanese company and less than 1% of Japan's population identify as Christian, so sacrificing a Western religious holiday was always going to be more likely than sacrificing for say Little Ladies Day (based on a real-life Japanese cultural event). It's just pragmatism.

It also doesn't help that most of the game's events run in the first half of the year, to the point it's almost like there's a new event from January one after the other til about August with the Rising, then it's just the Halloween event, Christmas and the New Year. So some event trimming was always inevitable to provide the development team a bit of breathing space, and the pandemic was probably the tipping point.