Square’s determination to ruin every seasonal event

[laurtias]

I do miss the jumping puzzle. It was a fun community experience. After they announced they wouldn't have one for MFF anymore, they added a jumping puzzle fate to the Gold Saucer which gives MGP if you want your jumping puzzle fix. The setting for it is actually pretty cool! It's not the same, but it's something. There's also a jumping puzzle in Kugane, and I think there's one on the tower in the Shirogane housing wards too.

Maybe someone could organize an informal community event at one of those.

We could even hold our own swimsuit contests with existing gear if we wanted to, just to have fun and be creative.

[Alexandre_Noireau]

I mean...
Every piece of content of this game has been seeing cuts and cuts. This isn't new.

Seasonal Events even existing anymore impresses me. I just wish they were to return previous events by now, to get those achievement points.

[Skivvy]

Jumping puzzle won't be coming back again now that we have flying in ARR.

They had added a debuff around the jumping area that disabled mounts.

[Adamantini]

They had added a debuff around the jumping area that disabled mounts.

or an instanced jumping puzzle area, like we have on gold saucer for example.

[Skivvy]

or an instanced jumping puzzle area, like we have on gold saucer for example.

That could be fun

I do wonder what the community's take on having grander, but repetitive, holiday events would be. I've always enjoyed GW2's holiday/special events as they're typically more involved, can have challenging jump puzzles, or things you have to collect, scavenger hunt type events, races, and a bunch of other various things. You can actually work on gaining rewards for the entire length of the event vs. spending 20 minutes doing some quests and a fate and being done for the next 2 weeks. :X

The flip side to that is that the events are the same every year, but again, they're far, far more fleshed out and involved. The reward currency also carries over from year to year, so if you don't manage to collect everything you wanted, you can save it and continue the next year. I actually really prefer GW2's style events over XIV.

I appreciate that they try to bring unique stories and prizes each year, but it seems like the team is stretched thin at the best of times. Not that they don't try, but they can only do so much, ya know?

[Zarkovitch]

the event is odd. Having a polar bear on summer is like having a swinsuit on winter.

[Evergrey]

the event is odd. Having a polar bear on summer is like having a swinsuit on winter.

It's Coca Cola bear.
Every one can enjoy a Cola whole year.
Especially during hot sommer days.

[Pelletier]

I've accepted years ago that most events are simple and short, you could say bad even. But I'm sad they didn't bring back the jumping course for the tens of thousands of recent new players to see.

[hynaku]

After seeing all the seasonal events this year now makes me wonder how good endwalker will be or if it be boring like these events. I have seen all the events since ffxiv first came out. Not sure why they couldn't have just reworked a older event and had it this year. I think it been way better then what they had this time.

[kaynide]

After seeing all the seasonal events this year now makes me wonder how good endwalker will be or if it be boring like these events. I have seen all the events since ffxiv first came out. Not sure why they couldn't have just reworked a older event and had it this year. I think it been way better then what they had this time.

So.. a lackluster throw away event meant to occupy about 20 minutes of your life is an indicator to how good or bad a major expansion will be?